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BJP’s limited mindset

BJP’s limited mindset

Meeting people at a party a couple of evenings ago, I was taken aback by a question one of them asked: “Do you...

21 Feb 2016 10:45 PM IST

Bowing out in style

Bowing out in style

Brendon McCullum will retire at the end of the Test match now in progress in Christchurch.

21 Feb 2016 10:40 PM IST

Base quotas primarily on economic criteria

Base quotas primarily on economic criteria

The violent agitation by Haryana’s Jats to be classified as an OBC group to derive the benefits of reservations...

21 Feb 2016 10:38 PM IST

Ultra-nationalists make light of patriotism

Ultra-nationalists make light of patriotism

Definitions, American poet Toni Morrison once wrote, belong to the definer not the defined.

21 Feb 2016 4:37 AM IST

Abdicating Role

Abdicating Role

It was game as usual for a section of rabidly anti-national goons in Jawaharlal Nehru University till the nation at...

21 Feb 2016 3:58 AM IST

Sitaram Yechury. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

‘The BJP wants to consolidate Hindu vote bank... to divide,...

Sitaram Yechury was the students’ union president of JNU in 1977-78. Now he’s the Marxist chief, lashing out...

20 Feb 2016 11:53 PM IST

Returning to the cadre

Returning to the cadre

The government has been pruning the upper echelons of the bureaucracy, quietly curtailing the tenure of many officials...

20 Feb 2016 11:44 PM IST

Uneasy promises

Uneasy promises

Last year the Patels demanded reservation in Gujarat. Now its the Jat community in Haryana. Reservations is a serious...

20 Feb 2016 11:41 PM IST

Quota and violence

Quota and violence

What are Jat protesters trying to prove by damaging property and burning vehicles Their demand for reservation in jobs...

20 Feb 2016 11:41 PM IST

Building India

Kudos to The Asian Age for its editorial Let the flag fly high, far above politics (February 20).

20 Feb 2016 11:40 PM IST

India and its nationalisms

India and its nationalisms

Since “nationalism” is the word of the week, how does one write about it without repeating the banal...

20 Feb 2016 11:36 PM IST

Nationalism limited to slogans

Nationalism limited to slogans

I have travelled around the world and I notice that we Indians use some words that others do not.

20 Feb 2016 11:32 PM IST