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It goes to the credit of Indian voters that they could realise absolute power has chances to turn a single party autocratic if elected for consecutive terms. Hence, they did not allow the Narendra Modi-led BJP to get a majority on its own when it...

Menacing Nexus

In what can be seen as an ominous development for India, a cargo ship from Pakistan recently docked at the Chittagong port in Bangladesh for the first time since the creation of the country in 1971. The Panama-flagged ship with a Chinese name -- Yuan...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Lankan Mandate

Sri Lanka is in the grip of a political tsunami with the coalition of National People’s Power (NPP), led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, getting a historic two-third majority in the parliamentary elections held 14 November. The country’s people have given such an overwhelming mandate...

Aakar Patel

Cricket Nationalism

If I have a dispute with you, I can solve it in one of three ways. One is by talking (‘negotiation’). We engage, on the assumption that both sides are rational and though both are looking out for their self-interest, a compromise is possible. The...

Global Power Shift

I ndia’s signing of the Host Country Agreement (HCA) with the Global Biofuels Alliance (GBA) marks a significant win for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). This move brings the GBA’s Secretariat to India, marking an exciting milestone for the renewable energy sector. Officials from...

Profession & Religion

Kerala government’s suspension of two IAS officers - Kerala Industries and Commerce Director K Gopalakrishnan and Agriculture Department Special Secretary N Prasanth - is yet another evidence of how deep communal poison has infected the country’s body politic. What causes alarm is that religion, as...

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Trump’s Ice Maiden

I t is often said there is a woman, sometimes two, behind every successful man. The adage is once again confirmed so loudly that the whole world can hear it by the landslide and stunning victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election. These...

Protect At All Cost

Mother language plays the most crucial role in shaping any culture and identity of a people. It is the lone key to preserving and passing down traditions, expressions, songs, and rituals, all of which enrich human existence. Sadly, every two weeks, a language vanishes in...

Aakar Patel

Election Watch

Aakar Patel The American journalist Bob Woodward (famous for his reporting of the Watergate scandal) has been documenting US presidents since Bill Clinton. Meaning that he has been writing books about their terms and events within, a sort of history as it unfolds in real-time....

Pragmatic Approach

I t’s interesting to see Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan shaking things up with the decades-old practice of sending demi-offi cial (DO) letters. For those of us familiar with the inner workings of the Indian babudom, this is a significant move. Let’s face it—what started...

Dharitri Youth Conclave 2024

 

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