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TopicSecularism

Topic: secularism

Secularists must self critique says Ramesh Venkataram, Talmiz Ahmad on Suleimani killing

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

For the first time, India is seeing secularism go from a top-down decree to a street slogan

When Gandhi talked about secularism, he was shown black flags. When Indira Gandhi amended the Constitution to add it, she was asked to clarify what she meant.

‘Eclipsed’ economic crisis, protesters’ CCTV conundrum & India’s ‘endangered’ secularism

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Pratap B Mehta calls out ‘insolent tyranny’, Milan Vaishnav on India’s ‘unusual’ secularism

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Yamini Aiyar on CAA’s ‘deathly blow’ and Vivek Katju on Kashmir’s way forward

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Hindus in Bangladesh don’t face a situation as dire as I do: Taslima Nasreen

More than Hindus, it’s the free-thinking liberals who are at greater risk in Bangladesh.

CAB protests a battle for India – either we are a secular state or we aren’t India at all

With the Citizenship Bill we cross the Rubicon, from a secular state to a ‘secular’ state. Everyone who believed in the idea of India must stand up.

For Nehru, secularism wasn’t a happy word but a possible source of dogma: Historian

At Nehru Memorial Lecture Thursday, Madhavan Palat said Jawaharlal Nehru had an affinity for Buddhism and viewed Mahatma Gandhi as an avatar of Buddha.

Ayodhya verdict made one thing clear. This is the problem with Indian secularism today

Politics is about coining new words, putting new meanings in old words, and persuading people to accept these new words and meanings.

What is Places of Worship Act? The law used by SC to censure Babri Masjid demolition

Ayodhya disputed site was exempted from Places of Worship Act passed during Narasimha Rao govt in September 1991, a year before Babri Masjid demolition.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.