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Citizen’s Burden

When the government insists that an Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship, something more than a legal clarification is at stake.

War and Consent

The most enduring consequence of a war is often not what happens on the battlefield, but what it reveals about the institutions that authorise it.

Plutocracy gone crazy

At its zenith, England was known as a nation of shopkeepers, where trade followed the crown; this was however interchangeable ~ the East India Company accumulated an empire, many times the size of the mother country.

Decoding Sonia’s shift to the Rajya Sabha

Sonia Gandhi decided to contest for the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan this week, surprising many. She has served in the Lok Sabha for 25 years and represents Rae Bareli.

Setting an agenda

As the general elections near, the political landscape is rife with speculation about the potential policy directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his third term which polls suggest is a certainty.

Japan in recession

Amid the economic tumult brewing in Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun finds itself grappling with unexpected recessionary winds, ceding its longheld status as the world’s third-largest economy to Germany.

Temples and Mosques

Indeed, if the Muslim side had agreed to voluntarily cede Ayodhya to the Hindus in the first place, the history and politics of the nation would have been different today. As the new emerging evidence now seems to suggest, the Muslim community was apparently not against such an amicable settlement, but it was sabotaged and hijacked by left-liberal and Muslim intellectuals