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Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.

The RSS: Icons of the Indian Right by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Tranquebar, Rs 799.

Of Sangh personalities in power

The orthodoxy that holds together Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay's 11 doesn't always translate into liberal economics.

21 April 2019 6:38 PM IST

BJP senior leader LK Advani during the release of the Commemorative volumes on Chandra Shekhar and Jagannath Rao Joshi at the Parliament Library building in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Politics turning vulgar: Discourse hits new low

Advani finds this vulgarisation caused by the overlapping of party and Sangh Parivar painful only because he feels...

9 April 2019 12:28 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)

Battle for future: India, UK face decision time

The election campaign for the 17th Lok Sabha is obsessed with trivia and full of personal invective.

26 March 2019 12:07 AM IST

At least 49 were killed and 20 were injured after a gunman opened fire on Friday prayers at a mosque in New Zealand killing many worshippers and forcing the city of Christchurch into lockdown as police launched a massive manhunt. (Photo: File)

Anti-Islam fanaticism a growing global trend

Senator Anning is the only mainstream politician to extend even qualified approval to the motives that supposedly...

18 March 2019 12:31 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru

Why Delhi should talk to all sides in Kashmir

Second, the grey eminence of the accession was his sworn enemy, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, whom Jawaharlal Nehru had...

12 March 2019 2:36 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (Photo; PTI)

No reason for India to court the OIC

It prompted OIC members gathered in Rabat for their first summit (of which more later) to think again about including...

26 Feb 2019 2:16 AM IST

Govt shares Rafale price details with the SC, makes public timeline of negotiations that preceded the deal in a bid to dispel doubts about alleged wrongdoing.(Representational image)

The Rafale effect: Make PMO's primacy official?

French industry may enjoy that freedom but no defence company in India has any existence outside the realm of official...

12 Feb 2019 12:00 AM IST

N. Chandrababu Naidu

States' new diplomacy': Amaravati as Singapore?

The 217 sq km greenfield capital city of Amaravati on the Krishna river could be another.

29 Jan 2019 12:51 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)

UK wake-up call: Need for a rethink on Brexit

Johnson has a twofold interpretation of Parliament's rejection of her Brexit proposal.

17 Jan 2019 12:13 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi further said that the government has taken several measures for improving the ease of doing business in the country. (Photo: PTI)

When will PM hold his first press conference?

Media independence is bartered or jeopardised usually only when a journalist or the institution he or she works for...

15 Jan 2019 12:08 AM IST

Telangana Rashtra Samiti president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (right) along with his son K.T. Rama Rao during one of the election rallies. The TRS party was formed with the sole aim carving out a separate Telangana state. Now, Mr Chandrasekhar Rao has set his eyes on national politics.

Linguistic, religious, cultural identities to rise

Telangana state and Mizoram highlighted the competitive nature and limitations of the identity politics that is the...

6 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

PM Modi on Monday summoned CBI director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana amid their public fight on bribery and corruption. (Photo: File)

Secularism is the core safeguard India needs

Justice Sen's understandable concern for Hindus stranded in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh does him credit.

1 Jan 2019 12:13 AM IST