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Vidya Subrahmaniam

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Vidya Subrahmaniam  was Senior Fellow with The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy. She was until 2014 Associate Editor with  The Hindu  based in New Delhi. In a journalistic career spanning four decades, she has written and reported extensively in a number of newspapers in Chennai, Mumbai, Lucknow and Delhi. She has also served on the national news bureaus of  The Indian Express ,  The Indian Post ,  The Independent ,  The Statesman , and was an opinion page writer for  The Times of India . In 2013, she won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism in the category, 'Commentary and Interpretative Writing'.

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The Ayodhya Verdict: When Fear-struck Muslims Prayed to Lose

It was common knowledge that the Supreme Court would deliver its judgment in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit before the Chief Justice of In

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‘These are times when ‘fair is foul’ and ‘foul is fair’’: Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey

The Narendra Modi Government has mounted an assault on public institutions and people’s fundamental rights and one such act is the set of amendments p

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Saddest story in Kashmir is Farooq, who was once promised the Vice-Presidentship: A.S. Dulat

By an order of the President, issued on August 5, 2019, Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status under Article 370, and downgraded from a

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How Harmony Lost Out: Voices from Western U.P. Over the Years

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India's Saffron Summer of 2019...and Some Outliers

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Speaking Truth to Power: The Indian Media’s Descent from Sharp Hawks to Screeching Parrots

It was heartening to see the media collectively stand up to the Narendra Modi government, when with characteristic bluster, it accused The Hindu of re

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Fatal, not Funny: Nationalist Outrage & Journalists against Journalists

India’s dyed-in-the wool ‘nationalist’ TV channels have made it clear that even as they rage against Pakistan, they will also hunt down anyone defying

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The Making of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

An act of magnanimity by his long-time associate, Lal Krishna Advani, set Atal Bihari Vajpayee on a journey of accomplishment that he had been convinc