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The writer, an author, former diplomat and is in politics.

Pavan K. Varma | India At Crossroads On Bail For Umar Khalid & UAPA

Pavan K. Varma | India At Crossroads On Bail For Umar Khalid & UAPA

For decades, Indian jurisprudence has rested on a foundational principle: “Bail is the rule, jail is the exception.”...

24 May 2026 12:08 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | As Dust Settles On Verdict, Questions Linger In The Air

Pavan K. Varma | As Dust Settles On Verdict, Questions Linger In The...

This phenomenon is not new. Indian voters are among the most politically discerning in the world. They may tolerate...

10 May 2026 12:27 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Address Must Remain Non-partisan; Devise Code

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Address Must Remain Non-partisan; Devise Code

Traditionally, such addresses have been reserved for moments of national import: war and peace, economic crises,...

25 April 2026 11:52 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Did Assam CM Overreact To Criticism From Oppn. Leader?

Pavan K. Varma | Did Assam CM Overreact To Criticism From Oppn....

The allegations made by Pawan Khera, the head of the Congress media cell, against Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief...

11 April 2026 8:57 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Put Principle First Or Lose Standing As Peacemaker

Pavan K. Varma | Put Principle First Or Lose Standing As Peacemaker

My concern, therefore, is about what India did or did not do in this unfortunate war. In this context, a new debate has...

28 March 2026 10:16 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Don’t Let America Decide From Where To Source Oil

Pavan K. Varma | Don’t Let America Decide From Where To Source Oil

The US government has issued a presidential order to set up a “monitoring committee” to ensure that India does not buy...

15 Feb 2026 12:38 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Nirmalaji, Are You Willing To Take Some Risks?

Pavan K. Varma | Nirmalaji, Are You Willing To Take Some Risks?

True, the global environment is volatile, and many coordinates which were earlier predictable, can no longer be taken...

31 Jan 2026 9:31 PM IST

The EC was responding to a story carried out by this paper in which former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan had raised serious concerns with regard to sanctity of EVMs due to use of VVPAT machines, saying VVPATs have made EVMs amenable to hacking.

Pavan K. Varma | After A Year Of Confusion, India Faces Hard Decisions

The way in which the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise was carried out in Bihar, and now in the whole country,...

3 Jan 2026 11:18 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Clean Air Not A Luxury, Why Govt Not Effecting Solution?

Pavan K. Varma | Clean Air Not A Luxury, Why Govt Not Effecting...

When the Air Quality Index (AQI) regularly breaches ‘severe’ and ‘hazardous’ categories exceeding 450 — levels that...

21 Dec 2025 12:24 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Amend Law For EC That Can Defend Democracy

Pavan K. Varma | Amend Law For EC That Can Defend Democracy

In its original incarnation — from 1950 until the late 1980s — the ECI was a single-member body, led only by a Chief...

7 Dec 2025 12:50 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | If Cong Doesn’t Transform, New Alternative Inevitable

Pavan K. Varma | If Cong Doesn’t Transform, New Alternative Inevitable

Has the Congress withered away? The question arises with every successive electoral setback. The idea of the Congress is...

22 Nov 2025 11:29 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Only Voters Can Purge Indian Politics of Crime

Pavan K. Varma | Only Voters Can Purge Indian Politics of Crime

A man who controls the local police, the legal system, development contracts, exerts patronage, collects rents, and...

9 Nov 2025 1:55 AM IST