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Pavan K Varma

Pavan K. Varma | Resist new usurpers of Hindu’s eternal legacy

Hindus have been used to being Hindus in a self-assured way without being told that there is a higher 'authority' that will judge them

24 Jan 2021 7:13 AM

Justice Sanjiv Khanna (Photo credit : Wikipedia)

Pavan K. Varma | Why J. Khanna dissented from Central Vista ruling

Justice Sanjiv Khanna, in his dissenting judgment, used a very telling expression to describe the undemocratic opacity of the government

10 Jan 2021 7:17 AM

Pavan K Varma | Politics didn’t limit the enigma that was Atalji

The poet in him told him that all this was passing, a shadow play, a fleeting moment in the grand canvas of time

27 Dec 2020 7:08 AM

Pavan K Varma | Will apex court protect liberty for all citizens?

The administering of justice should never be selective, or so lacking in humanity that it revolts the human conscience

16 Nov 2020 10:31 AM

French soldiers and Municipal Police officers stand behind a cordon-off area near the Orthodox Church where an attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun wounded an Orthodox priest in a shooting before fleeing, on October 31, 2020 in Lyon, said a police source. - The priest, who has Greek nationality, was closing his church when the attack happened and is now in a serious condition, said the source, who asked not to be named. (AFP)

Pavan K Varma | India must set example of pluralism, tolerance

India’s civilisational history presents the best example of a plural society.

01 Nov 2020 4:27 PM

BJP supporters celebrate as early trends show the party's win in the last Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls, at the party office in Lucknow. (PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Muslims in BJP have an express duty: Stem hate

Do the luminaries in the BJP from the Muslim community speak out against the malicious denigration of their faith

18 Oct 2020 9:38 AM

A television journalist reports from the spot where the 19-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by four men, was cremated on the outskirts of Bool Garhi village in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh. AP Photo

Pavan K Varma | Napping media awakes, puts Yogi Adityanath on the spot

Thanks to the media, most of them brave young women, the entire nation was sickened by the pitiless and high-handed behaviour of the police

04 Oct 2020 6:28 PM

File photo of prime minister Narendra Modi addressing BJP MPs.

Pavan K Varma | A Parliament without questions is no democracy

The decision to do away with Question Hour indicates that the government has no answers

06 Sep 2020 6:05 PM

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists and supporters wave flags as they celebrate before the groundbreaking ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhaya. AFP Photo

Pavan K. Varma | Will ‘Ram Rajya’ lead to a more tolerant India?

ecularism in our country is not about the absolute separation of the State and faith

10 Aug 2020 4:31 PM

An artist makes a clay idol of Goddess Durga for puja festivities, at Krishna Nagar in Nadia District. PTI Photo

Pavan K. Varma | Support the arts during pandemic, keep India’s culture alive

Governments, which are responsible for the support and nurturing of artistes, have always treated culture as a priority of the last resort

27 Jul 2020 12:30 AM

Both parties, prisoners of the predictable, continue to viciously kick each other in the shin even as the Chinese kick us on the border. PTI Photo

Pavan K. Varma | Why can’t Indians unite in face of China threat?

The government must come clean on what the position on the Line of Actual Control is

29 Jun 2020 4:57 PM

Pavan K. Varma | Amid corona crisis, it’s politics as usual for BJP

Union home minister and former party president Amit Shah held a “virtual” rally in Bihar

15 Jun 2020 6:46 PM

Pavan K.Varma | Prophets of doom’? We all ignored India’s poor

Court has finally intervened on behalf of the well-being of migrant workers

31 May 2020 9:07 PM

Migrants climb onto a truck to reach to their native place in Bihar, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Vijayawada. PTI Photo

Pavan Varma: Will Covid-19 make us a more caring society?

If the government did not anticipate such a consequence, then it must be accused of unpardonable incompetence

19 May 2020 5:28 PM

Pavan K Varma: Red, green & orange: A colour-coded muddle?

It is clear that in spite of the best efforts of the government, social distancing in this operation will be compromised

05 May 2020 7:42 PM

Migrant workers walk down a deserted urban highway to their homes in rural India. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Pavan K Varma: Who're you? A passport Indian or a ration card Indian? Neither?

In this crisis, those who have the wrong card are unlikely to forget or forgive this experience

20 Apr 2020 7:31 PM

This image posted on prime minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account shows him lighting an oil lamp to mark the country's fight against the Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday, April 5, 2020.(AP/Twitter)

Pavan K Varma: Why didn’t the PM focus on steps to help the needy?

It is sobering to remember that many migrant workers were not at home to light a lamp

06 Apr 2020 3:22 PM

Chanakya’s View: Shaheen Bagh should see the big picture

Leaders of religious communities must come forward and take the right decision given the circumstances prevailing

22 Mar 2020 8:04 PM

An Aam Aadmi Party worker, dressed as party chief Arvind Kejriwal, celebrates along with others the party's success in the Delhi Assembly polls, at party headquarters in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Delhi polls a defeat for BJP’s polarisation

It must also be borne in mind that the BJP did not fight this election as though it was a routine state election.

23 Feb 2020 12:13 AM

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar (Photo: PTI)

‘Nitish almost ditched BJP, backed Cong in 2018’

And now instead of being guided by ideology, it has become an instrument for him to gain his political purposes.

11 Feb 2020 1:53 AM

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