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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India-Sri Lanka: Shared heritage and complex challenges
India-Sri Lanka relations date back to centuries. The bi-lateral relationships between the two nations are multifaceted. Language, religion, shared cultural heritage, and traditions play an important role in stitching the bond between…
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Cost of control: Government fact-checking and fight for Free Speech
In February 2021, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting [MIB] proposed amendments to the Information Technology [IT] Act 2000 to enhance regulation on online content through Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics…
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Israel: From leading ‘exporter’ to ‘importer’ of arms
If Israel is really a leading exporter of the military equipment of the world where is the need for it to buy arms from India, which till sometimes back actually was among…
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Opinion: Toxic rhetoric in J&K elections is rife with serious consequences
In the ongoing Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the parties in their bid to woo voters have started seeding mutually hostile narratives that will leave serious consequences in its trail for…
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Cost of free speech: Legal battles, fines, and political fallout
How free is ‘free speech’ guaranteed by the Constitution? Or how expensive is free speech in the free world? Do the rights guaranteed for speech in the Constitution come at a price?…
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Ashwin is proving to be India’s trump card in his role of spin bowling all rounder
A cricket fan once remarked that Ravichandran Ashwin has as many blades in his game as a Swiss army knife has in its hilt. That is an apt way to describe the…
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Opinion: Bulldozing homes of accused is against basic principles of criminal justice
By Shayan Bisney Hyderabad: The Bench of Justices B. R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan of the Supreme Court of India came down heavily on the Executive on Tuesday with its order in…
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One Nation One Election: Year-long process can stall India’s growth
The only likely impact of the One Nation One Election policy—if ever implemented—is that the ruling party politicians will have to cut the ribbons of various developmental projects on the poll eve once every…
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One Nation One Election: Why would any party prefer mid-term elections?
The Union Cabinet has given its nod and the BJP-led NDA government will implement ‘one nation, one election’ within its current tenure, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Cabinet accepted the recommendation…
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Nizam’s Hyderabad State was merged with India, neither liberated nor annexed
The discussion on the Police Action (Operation Polo) against the Hyderabad State of the erstwhile Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan has begun to pick up speed, thanks to the polarization policy of…
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Kejriwal is AAP, AAP is him
It is unusual in the political history of India that a chief minister of a state can remain without a portfolio but run the state by his superintendence, leaving the nitty-gritties to…
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Smoke, mirrors politics of Kashmir or changing dynamics ahead of polling
Kashmir politics continues to spring surprises in the first-ever Assembly polls in a decade being held from September 18. Awami Itihad Party or AIP led by Abdul Rashid aka Engineer Rashid had entered into…
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Blink it! Meal with a deal on the dining tables!
“Union minister of Commerce and Trade, Piyush Goyal warned that, “e-commerce was eating into the sales volumes of small retail businesses and displacing them in the consumer delivery market.” Abharana left…
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There is more to Engineer Rashid’s angry notes on Modi’s new Kashmir narrative
The opening remarks of Lok Sabha member Abdul Rashid, better known as Engineer Rashid soon after his release from Tihar jail in Delhi on Wednesday were a verbal assault on Prime Minister Modi’s vison of new…
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Opinion: Government’s offer of dialogue to Hurriyat lost in miscommunication
Last two days – Sunday and Monday – revealed all that happened in September 2016, exactly eight years ago when Kashmir Valley was visited by an all-party delegation led by the then…
