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Shikha Mukerjee
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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.
    The Congress Party on Saturday postponed its rally, on the economic slowdown scheduled for December 1, citing the increased security measures in view of the Ayodhya verdict. (Representational Image | PTI)Opinion
    Decision time for Cong: Can it lead from front?

    This is not a political impasse that can be negotiated through complicated calculations of advantage and profit.

    8 Jan 2020 2:16 AM IST

    Members of Aasu protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, in Guwahati on Wednesday.(Photo: AP)Opinion
    Govt's desperate hurry on CAB seems puzzling

    The protesters and the posters in the Northeast, including Assam, are angry and upset by illegal migrants .

    9 Dec 2019 12:38 AM IST

    Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari with newly-appointed Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis and his deputy Ajit Pawar in Mumbai on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Playing fast, going slow: Politicians & apex court

    The BJP can trade all the horses it wants, but it cannot put back together again the broken bits of its claim to being a...

    26 Nov 2019 12:13 AM IST

    Top of the list of legislation in the Winter Session will be further changes to the essential structure of the Indian State.Opinion
    Momentum of inertia, govt remains in denial

    The hectic legislative schedule of the BJP on establishing a proto Hindu rashtra with lawful approval masks a curious...

    18 Nov 2019 1:58 AM IST

    Onions may not be a staple , at less than one per cent of Indias total food production, or about 800 grams a month per person per month on average, but the bulb is not inessential.Opinion
    Food power in politics: Onions make you cry

    The old-fashioned, down to earth politicians of the present generation are wary about the sentiments of food; prices,...

    12 Nov 2019 2:49 AM IST

    Incumbent Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar being offered sweets by Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad after he was elected as the leader of BJP Legislature party in Chandigarh. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Maha, Haryana signals: Lesson of half-full glass

    If the BJP really meant to do what it had declared one nation, one vote the best time to get started would have been...

    29 Oct 2019 12:09 AM IST

    West Bengal chief minister Mamata BanerjeeOpinion
    BJP plays puja politics, tramples on tradition

    The tradition in West Bengal is that in the festival season there is no politics.

    7 Oct 2019 2:17 AM IST

    Replying to a debate on the amendment, Home Minister Amit Shah said a four-level scrutiny has been provided in the amendment and no human rights will be violated. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)Opinion
    How will one card solve any of India's problems?

    The BJP may have been right when it laid down the law one man-one post.

    27 Sept 2019 1:46 AM IST

    Finance Minister Nirmala SitharamanOpinion
    As BJP flounders, is the best still to come?

    Consider that Bangladesh started out as a devastated nation when it fought and parted company with Pakistan.

    11 Sept 2019 1:37 AM IST

    The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.Opinion
    Who is a citizen? Going down a dangerous path

    The publication of the list of citizens on August 31 was the day when India arrived at the crossroads.

    5 Sept 2019 12:53 AM IST

    Kannan GopinathanOpinion
    What citizenship means: IAS man's wake-up call

    It is significant that Mr Gopinathan has not opposed the decision to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35A.

    29 Aug 2019 12:05 AM IST

    Congress President Sonia Gandhi, during Congress Working Committee meeting at 10 Janpath in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    A Greek tragedy: Is that how the Congress ends?

    It is, today, a disaster as it has no clue of what it should do next, under the present political circumstances.

    14 Aug 2019 1:22 AM IST

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