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Topic: mandir

BJP had 5 trump cards before this election, but that’s set to change now

Yogendra Yadav -
Narendra Modi should be now prepared to answer hard questions about economy, climate of hatred and Rafale.

Why the BJP will count the number of temples and ashrams in your locality

Pragya Kaushika -
The attempt is to identify local 'influencers' but there is another benefit the party hopes to draw from the exercise.

“Museum wahin banayenge!”

Rama Lakshmi -
All politics is symbolic, and the BJP is replacing realpolitik with symbolic politics, especially in Ayodhya, by trying to build a museum.

Still Mandal, still mandir

Shekhar Gupta -
Mandir and Mandal are the last big ideas to alter our national power equations. Since then, nobody has been able to catch India’s imagination.

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

Gitanjali Das -
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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