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The likes of Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma were fortunate not to have been booked because of the existence of the same kind of double standard. AP PhotoOpinion
AA Edit | Double standards and how!

The criminalisation of every protest staged by aggrieved Indians is clear in all dissent being viewed as a potential law...

8 Jun 2020 5:54 PM IST

Most experts agree that the first such move, the national lockdown, indeed helped but the government did little to make use of the opportunity to prepare the nation for a successful engagement with the virus later on. PTI PhotoOpinion
AA Edit | Centre can't stand by and watch at this critical hour

There are no immediate chances of the numbers going down what with the Union government allowing opening of more social...

8 Jun 2020 5:32 PM IST

Volunteers wearing protective suits conduct thermal tests at Dharavi, during the fifth phase of the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Mumbai. PTI PhotoOpinion
Nilofar Suhrawardy | Covid paranoia, and some cogitations

Frankly, seeing everyone in almost same type and colour of masks is just making this lockdown phase more uninteresting

7 Jun 2020 5:52 PM IST

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Waqyanawis | What got Sharad's tongue when it came to PM-Cares?

Opposition parties constantly attack the opacity of PM-Cares fund but the joint Opposition meeting didn't have any...

7 Jun 2020 5:13 PM IST

In 2002, a pogrom in Gujarat when the Prime Minister was heading the state government there claimed over 1,000 Muslim lives. The perpetrators were not punished. PTI PhotoOpinion
AA Edit | Muslim lives matter, but saying so will cost you

As the Black Lives Matter movement rages, ordinary Indian citizens have been silent in the face of glaring injustice...

6 Jun 2020 7:29 PM IST

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Ghosts of pandemics present and past

Lockdown hasn't brought any more ghosting into my life than I was already subjected to as a freelance writer

6 Jun 2020 7:16 PM IST

In this file photo taken on May 27, 2020 policemen and onlookers stand near a dead pregnant wild elephant retrieved after it strayed into a village and ate an explosive-filled fruit, on the banks of the Velliyar River in Palakkad district of Kerala state. AFP PhotoOpinion
AA Edit | No missed opportunity

There was no dearth of suggestive statements about the demography of Malappuram, the only Muslim-majority district in...

6 Jun 2020 7:09 PM IST

A bomb disposal squad member of the Indian Army prepares to defuse two IEDs recovered from ULFA(I) cadres, at Polo Ground, near Paltan Bazar in Dibrugarh. PTI PhotoOpinion
Claude Arpi | India vs China: Time to open some new fronts

This history shouldn't be forgotten when one looks at the present events in Ladakh, though establishment , says that...

6 Jun 2020 6:43 PM IST

Migrants stand in a queue at Central Railway Station to board a Shramik Special train for West Bengal, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Chennai. PTI PhotoOpinion
Charity alone is not enough to save informal sector workers

Collaboration with the authorities, has been difficult, and sporadic, primarily because the government's attitude has...

6 Jun 2020 4:24 PM IST

US Marshals are restraining a protestor near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyds death continue. AP PhotoOpinion
Farrukh Dhondy | Is Trump destined to fail true test of democracy?

The most telling test of democracy in our world is the treatment by nations of their minorities

5 Jun 2020 7:21 PM IST

An activist holds a placard during a candlelit remembrance outside Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2020, after an annual vigil that traditionally takes place in the park to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown was banned on public health grounds because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. AP PhotoOpinion
AA Edit | Pushed to the edge

The new law undercuts Article 18 of Hong Kong's Basic Law, which limits Beijing from applying national laws to the...

5 Jun 2020 5:29 PM IST

: Army personnel during a counter-infiltration operation along the Line of Control in Kalakote sector of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. PTI PhotoOpinion
AA Edit | Intimidation and defamation: BJP's twin strategies in J-K

Thousands of individuals, including the former state's most consequential political leaders as well as children were...

5 Jun 2020 5:08 PM IST

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