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These are times when the controversies surrounding cricket are more in the headlines than the score. Last year’s Indian Premier League was dogged by a
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The right to free speech and expression also includes the right for people to be exposed to differing points of view. Book purges have been a staple o
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The BJP’s strategy to raise its vote share in Tamil Nadu to 16 per cent by enlisting the support of smaller regional parties and caste-based groups wa
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The line between bravado and pyrrhic victory is slender, more so in the realm of political melodrama in India. The latest case in point is the interna
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Commissions of inquiry set up by the Indian state in three instances – the anti-Sikh riots (1984), the Mumbai riots (1992-93), and, the post-Godhra ri
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Rights may be self-evident and constitutionally secured; however, they do not automatically implement themselves.