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The Babri Masjid Demolition Case: The Will to Delay and Deflect

On December 6, 1992 a frenzied mob of kar sevaks pulled down the Babri Masjid in the presence of Lal Krishna Advani and other top Sangh Parivar leade

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You can't posit Ram against Lakshmi to those without jobs: Pavan K. Varma

Pawan K. Varma, the national spokesperson of the Janata Dal (United), and until recently advisor to the Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar,

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Opposition: Shooting in the Dark

Renewed efforts are on to unite the Indian Opposition against the ruling dispensation led by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. But the Opposition is up aga

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Caste alliance is not the bedrock of our philosophy: Sachin Pilot

Congress party chief in Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot, makes out a litany of charges against the incumbent Vasundhara Raje Government, accusing it, a

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Advani to Modi to Yogi, a Hindutva story foretold

Narendra Modi has crafted the BJP into a winning machine that can win without Muslims, without alliance partners and without the need to appear modera

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'Our fight is for the restoration of the Constitutional vision': Bezwada Wilson

Some months ago, I reliably learnt that the Narendra Modi Government had approached Bezwada Wilson for a Padma award but that he had shown no intere

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From despair to hope to victory: How Nitish Kumar had his revenge

In 2013, Nitish Kumar parted ways from an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Narendra Modi, arguing that Modi’s politics was at odds w

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From Emergency to Now: The Wide Arc of a Hack’s Ideological Journey

As the Indian political landscape changed post the Internal Emergency between 1975 and 1977, so did a journalist’s understanding of the real dangers f