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The writer, an author, former diplomat and is in politics.
    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.Columnists
    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?Columnists
    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 DemocracyColumnists
    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 InevitableColumnists
    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 CrimeOpinion
    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

    Pavan K. Varma | NDA United, But Is Nitish Playing His Last Innings?Columnists
    Pavan K. Varma | NDA United, But Is Nitish Playing His Last Innings?

    The conspiracy, to my mind, was unethical, unnecessary, and dangerous. One consequence was that the RJD’s seats were...

    25 Oct 2025 11:55 PM IST

    Pavan K. Varma | Will Nitish’s Last-minute Largesse Pay or Backfire?Columnists
    Pavan K. Varma | Will Nitish’s Last-minute Largesse Pay or Backfire?

    Elections to the Bihar Assembly were announced at a press conference on October 6 by the three election commissioners....

    11 Oct 2025 9:54 PM IST

    Pavan K. Varma | India’s Democracy No Match To Nepalese Fragile GovernanceColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | India’s Democracy No Match To Nepalese Fragile...

    In recent years, Indian public discourse has been increasingly hijacked by a troubling binary: Either one is an...

    28 Sept 2025 12:03 AM IST

    Pavan K. Varma | For BJP & Opp, Abuse Is Ruse To Avoid Issue-based PoliticsColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | For BJP & Opp, Abuse Is Ruse To Avoid Issue-based...

    Memories in Bihar of the RJD’s ‘jungle raj’ (1990-2005), when law and order and rectitude were jettisoned on the altar...

    13 Sept 2025 9:46 PM IST

    Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too Late?Columnists
    Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too...

    The Election Commission of India (EC) made a general statement that there are “large numbers of people from Nepal,...

    30 Aug 2025 9:38 PM IST

    Pavan K. Varma | SIR A Massive Fraud By EC Against India’s PoorColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | SIR A Massive Fraud By EC Against India’s Poor

    But for the vast numbers of the deprived and underprivileged, the perspective is radically different. For them,...

    2 Aug 2025 10:36 PM IST

    Pavan K. Varma | As Bihar Heads For Polls, Honour Syncretic CultureColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | As Bihar Heads For Polls, Honour Syncretic Culture

    It is a fact that cynical politicians use ordinary Indians as puppets to reinforce religion-based vote banks. People...

    19 July 2025 11:51 PM IST

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