Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
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Topic: liberal

Hijab row not about choice, liberals supporting ‘dangerous trend’, RSS-backed Organiser says

Shanker Arnimesh -
Hijab and niqab are considered signs of a repressive, regressive society, but fundamentalist organisations want to promote segregated religious identity, says Organiser editorial.

Why a liberal Indian needed to write Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s biography

Sagarika Ghose -
Vajpayee was flawed, weak in many ways, and played cynical politics but he never stopped trying to reconcile diverse groups.

SubscriberWrites: Can DMK replace Congress as the liberal party of India

Balaji Alagurajan -
While the present ruling party’s love affair with conservatism has just begun, the void for a truly liberal party in national politics has widened with the fall of Congress, writes Balaji Alagurajan.

One thing India can teach the West is this — you can be a liberal and a nationalist

Nitin Pai -
People in the West might cringe at the word ‘nationalism’, but it is for us Indians as ‘vishwaguru’ to show them that it need not be a bad word.

Is Obama right to say ‘woke’ progressives & call-out culture hurt centrist liberal leaders? 

ThePrint Team -
Former US President Barack Obama lashed out this week at “woke” progressives advising them to “get over that (call-out culture) quickly”.

Dear Indian liberals, you cannot elect a new people

Shivam Vij -
Demonising Modi voters as ‘bigoted’, unwashed masses is not helping the liberal cause.

Should liberals and Congress feel sorry for LK Advani not being on the BJP list?

ThePrint Team -
Many Congress supporters and commentators expressed their disappointment over the BJP’s decision to drop LK Advani from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar seat for 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

By siding with Sabarimala devotees, Shashi Tharoor has failed the liberal in him

Anand Kochukudy -
Shashi Tharoor has displayed the dexterity and flexibility of a skillful politician by making a U-turn on Sabarimala.

Young urban Indians who say ‘I am not casteist bro’ enable Sambit Patra’s gotra comments

Harnidh Kaur -
For all the talk of not being casteist, young urban Indians are still listening to mummy papa when it comes to marriage.

On Sabarimala, blame out-of-touch Indian liberal elite not the court

Yogendra Yadav -
In a democracy, courts may defy public opinion, but on balance, courts are likely to go with popular sentiment.
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India has interests on both sides of US-China divide. Cold War holds clues for path ahead

Lt General Prakash Menon -
India’s strategic balance is weighted towards the West and its economic balance is towards China. But it needs more to build a multipolar world order.
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What India—Hindus and Muslims—missed in Supreme Court’s ‘lecture’ on Nupur Sharma

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‘To live is to kill’ — a Malabar pit viper and gliding frog affirm nature’s basic law

Economy

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Keep calm and carry on: Unlike wheat, rice isn’t hot yet

Sayantan Bera -
The world is worried that India might restrict exports of rice after wheat, pushing prices higher and worsening global food security.

Defence

File photo of a defence personnel armed with a SiG 716 rifle near the Line of Control | Photo: Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint

Army puts out tender for 30k ‘night sights’ so its US-made assault rifles can aim better in dark

Raghav Bikhchandani -
While an open tender has been issued for procurement of the optical instruments, Bengaluru-based firm Tonbo Imaging, whose services the Army has previously used, is a frontrunner.

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Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest

Shekhar Gupta -
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.

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