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Over the last few years there has been a discernible, if also disturbing, trend to involve, or even drag in the judiciary to settle political scores. While instituting all sorts of cases – fake or genuine, criminal or civil – against political rivals has for long been part and parcel…

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Why brands like Amazon unfriend actors like Swara Bhaskar

Like Hollywood, the Mumbai film industry too can offer a lesson or two to the world every once in a while. For the past two weeks or so, Swara Bhaskar, an up-and-coming Indian actress, has been at the centre of a most curious unravelling.

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#KarnatakaElections: Where some sons have risen, some set and others got eclipsed

Darshan Puttannaiah would have been sitting on the other side of the globe in Denver, US. Instead, he is traversing the length and breadth of Melkote constituency in Mandya district, contesting this Karnataka election as the candidate of Swaraj India.

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India is not Rahul Gandhi’s upset wife

In a recent piece on Newslaundry titled “Is Rahul Gandhi the Kalidasa of Indian politics?” the author Abid Shah used the following line:

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How the humble karyakarta can transform governance in India

Full disclosure: This column invites pieces from people across political parties. Please check the bio for the author’s political affiliations.

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Can opposition stand up to Modi in 2019?

The talk of alternative political alignments is in the air. With the BJP failing on most fronts and moving more towards aggressive Hindutva, all anti-BJP forces and even some erstwhile BJP leaders and allies are scouting for alternative formations to take on the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine.

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Women in media: The power and the struggle

Each year, the Network of Women in Media (NWMI), India, holds a national meet for its members, who hail from a range of platforms in states across India. On January 4-6, Chennai’s Anna University hosted over 100 female journalists – early-career reporters, long-time veterans of print newsrooms, old friends, new…

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Why Barkha’s liberal-bashing in the Post is illogical

Can born again lib elites ever shake off the Left-Right binary in looking at our glorious republic even as they feverishly hype up the blinding flash of corporate cash? Barkha Dutt’s article in Washington Post titled ‘The Taj Mahal could be adopted by a corporation. India’s Liberals need to get over it’ is…

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#WorldPressFreedomDay: How free is India’s ‘free press’?

Every year, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international non-profit, publishes a report on freedom of the press around the world. And for the second consecutive year, India has slipped in the rankings.

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#Impeachment: Congress terms Vice-President’s order ‘ill-advised’ but what next?

Yesterday morning Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu rejected the notice to initiate the impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. It was expected that the Opposition parties including the Congress party will pounce on the opportunity to hit back at the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Barely hours later, when…

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So, what were the real reasons for the cash crunch?

“Nobody knows, nobody knows, how the elephant blows his nose. Does he do a-tishoo on a tissue? Or does he simply wipe it on his toes? Nobody knows, nobody knows.”

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India’s golden girls

Traditionally, Indian sports have been male-dominated. But the emergence of some top women players in the last few years has signalled a major shift in this sphere. Gold Coast 2018 was no different.

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#Impeachment: ‘CBI has enough proof to nail CJI Misra’

The opposition parties’ move to submit a notice to Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu – requesting impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra – is just the beginning of the process.

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#Impeachment of Chief Justice (in 5 not-so-easy steps)

Wheels have been set in motion for the unprecedented impeachment motion against the Chief Justice of India. On Friday, the main opposition Congress and six other parties moved a notice – signed by 71 current and retired lawmakers of the Rajya Sabha – for the impeachment of Chief Justice Dipak…

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#KarnatakaAssemblyElection: Ayodhya, Tipu and Kits for Minority Journalists

For those who believe elections in India are about roti, kapda, makaan, here is a reminder that they are wrong. Sanjay Patil, the Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from Belagavi (Rural), who has been given the ticket by the party again this time, is emphatic that the May 12 election is…

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Over 100 students from more than 50 varsities slam efforts to choke education institutions

From the infamous sedition row at Jawaharlal Nehru University to Rohith Vemula’s death at Hyderabad Central University campus, varsities across the country have been in news since 2016, exposing the underlying caste discrimination on India’s campuses. The exorbitant fee hike for scholarship students at Tata Institute of Social Services and…

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#AmbedkarJayanti: Keeping Ambedkar’s dream relevant

On April 10, a statue of BR Ambedkar was installed by government agencies in Dungraiya village, Uttar Pradesh to replace one that had been vandalised a few days ago. In what has been called an act of ‘playing politics of colour’, the statue showed him wearing saffron clothes. A colour…

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Book Review: A Century Is Not Enough By Sourav Ganguly

A Century Is Not EnoughBy Sourav Ganguly, co-written with Gautam BhattacharyaPublished by JuggernautPages 258It was on a sunny winter day in December 1995 when, as a schoolboy, I watched Sourav Ganguly on a cricket ground for the first time. He was dismissed for a paltry nine runs in Bengal’s first…

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Wait and watch on the ‘world’s largest health programme’

Call it ModiCare or NaMoCare, the Budget 2018 announcement on upping the stakes with the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), is an acceptance of reality, finally, by the government that no poverty alleviation is going to happen till healthcare costs stop dragging people back into impoverishment.

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Chronicle of an Imperfect cricketer

There was a type of melancholic and underachieving Indian in the late 1980s and 90s who watched cricket with an empathy for the struggling career of a technique-obsessed Indian batsman. He wanted Sanjay Manjrekar to succeed but there was something strange that the Mumbai batsman’s invisible admirers wouldn’t like to…

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A review of NL Hafta by Ashwin, Kishore, Harikrishnan and Chandramauli

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Bamboo politics in Parliament: Ordinance over Private Members’ Bill

Scientists have classified bamboo – commonly known as green gold and poor man’s timber – as “grass”, as a simple Google search will tell you. But the Government of India has taken 90 years to introduce an amendment to remove bamboo from the purview of the definition of a “tree”…

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What you should expect from political reporting in 2018

In ways that the Indian media has made quite safe to foresee, 2018 is set to be a predictable year for political stories. What would become clear in the coming months is that 2018 wouldn’t be about 2018; it would definitely be about 2019.

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Ground report: What sparked #BhimaKoregaonViolence

Huge protests by Dalit groups erupted in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra on Tuesday, a day after members of the community were attacked on their way to Bhima-Koregaon in Pune district. One person died and five were injured in Monday’s violence during an event to celebrate the historic “Battle of Bhima…

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