Opinions
Opinions from known and prominent personnel from various backgrounds like activism, academia, business and historical experience. Thought-provoking articles, insightful analyses, and diverse viewpoints await, encouraging meaningful conversations on the issues that matter.
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Defending Constitution: When does State inaction qualify as abetment?
Erosion of judicial objectivity seems a possibility when we consider the impact of extreme judicial restraint, if it is indeed that, on society. Events seen include mob lynching, vigilante groups harassing students…
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Defending Constitution: Frequent amendments mar its spirit
What is the constitution? How did it come into being? Were the people behind the constitution able to foresee the India of today as the India of the future? What measures does…
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Rahul Gandhi must create new narrative to keep the Cong leadership together
Is Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s judgement coming under scrutiny? The critics wonder whether he promoted aides who ultimately betrayed him and the Congress. The recent departure of former minister Milind Deora has…
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BJP may highlight Ram Temple construction achievement in upcoming polls
Today, after a gap of 500 years, Lord Ram will be re-installed in a huge and magnificent Hindu temple in Ayodhya. It will bring about a closure to the highly controversial and…
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Recollecting visit to Ayodhya in 2010, 18 yrs after Babri Masjid demolition
Lest the political fanfare and the changes in nomenclature and anachronistic happening on the eve of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya create any amnesia and sense of deliberate unfamiliarity about the monstrous…
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No need to panic over GBS, says doctor
A young man in his thirties suddenly developed a little tingling in his hands and a weak grip. He reached a well known private hospital in Delhi and was diagnosed with one…
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The lesser known Miracle Man of Drugs–Yellapragada SubbaRow
“You’ve probably never heard of Dr Yellapragada SubbaRow. Yet, because he lived, you may be alive and are well today. Because he lived, you may live longer,” thus wrote the Argosy magazine,…
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How does the minority character give AMU its unique identity?
The issue of Aligarh Muslim University’s minority character is currently being spiritedly fought in the Supreme Court. I am not a legal expert. I as an alumnus and beneficiary of the founder…
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Curtains drawn on Panchayats in J&K, no fresh elections in sight
Curtains have been drawn on panchayats in Jammu and Kashmir. The five-year term of the panchayats, elected in 2018, expired on January 9, without newly elected bodies to succeed them nor any…
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Time for J&K people and Centre to walk to each other in 2024
Jammu and Kashmir will have to redefine itself in 2024 building upon all what it achieved and learnt in 2023 that ended on a near-perfect note. For Kashmir, it is not just a…
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India must maintain a strategic balance between Maldives and China
The Malidive-India row following the derogatory remarks made on social media platform by three Maldivian ministers has to be handled with extreme care diplomatically. It is a time when India must maintain…
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South India is still far away from BJP which dominates the North
Can the enormous popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi help the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) achieve electoral success in the southern states? The Party is seeking to gain more voters in the…
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A teacher par excellence
I was in grade 7 or 8 when Wasi Ahmed Shamsi sahab joined B D Y High School as an Urdu and Persian teacher. Tucked away on the bank of a pond…
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Lilting songs of Rahul Dev Burman still uplift spirits of listeners; he passed away 30 years ago
It is difficult to imagine that thirty years have passed since the demise of R.D. Burman. His music continues to live among us although he died on Jan 4th, 1994. The end…
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Ram Temple story is more political than religious
The grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya is all dressed up for the inauguration of the Ram temple on January 22 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is fulfilling a longstanding dream of…