BRICS Summit Against Backdrop Of Plummeting Washington-Moscow Relations
Two recent events will influence attitudes at the 9th BRICS summit at Xiamen, China, from September 3 to 5 –
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Opinion
Sauce for the goose and gander
“THEY have the president. They have the vice president. They have both houses of Congress. They have the supreme court
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What Does This Story Say About The 70th Anniversary?
This is a true story. I am revisiting it with a purpose: so that it collides head on with the
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Madhavikutty alias Kamala Surayya
The Judges of the Kerala High Court and the Supreme Court would have increased their wisdom greatly if they had
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Child Abuse
According to UNICEF violence against children can be “physical and mental abuse and injury, neglect or negligent treatment, exploitation and
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Unboxing Humanity
“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself”-Andrew Murphy Among the most inartistic lines drawn by man are
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Ahmad Patel Barely Survives To Keep Sonia’s Rahul Hopes Alive
It would be rank bad form to describe Ahmad Patel as a form of life under Sonia Gandhi’s furniture, because
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Gorakhpur Tragedy!!! Beyond words….
Unimaginable, Irresponsible, indescribable, this is what happened, this is the state of my state, Utter Pradesh, Not just a child
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Trolling the Vice President, of India, Janab, Hamid Ansari
Those who are trolling outgoing Vice President Hamid Ansari for his remarks about Muslims being insecure in India, possibly have
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From Moeen Ali to Ranji: Hindu-Muslim In Cricketing Diaspora
When he completed his hat-trick by trapping South Africa’s Morne Morkel Leg Before wicket in the third test match at
Read MoreChina Briefing Diplomats On Doklam: Doval Must Follow Up For India
It reflects on the delicate diplomacy involved that the principal issue in the China-India standoff at Doklam is being mentioned
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With apologies to Leonard Cohen’s and his song, “Democracy”
It’s coming through a hole in the ground, from the depths of Nagpur’s fear, It’s coming from the feel that
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Should you watch Dunkirk? Here’s what our film critic has to say…
Went to see Dunkirk with friends. I was driven to the hall by my son and on the way he
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Justice demand to be Achilles’ heel for Erdogan
“March for Justice is an attempt to remind Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party that democracy is not an
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The wood in the axe
THESPIAN Dilip Kumar used an interesting metaphor in his movie Kranti, or revolution. The earthy couplet went thus: “Kulhadi mein
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How about the 4th july for Iraq and Syria?
I came across this post which was written by Doaa Saleh Nassar an Egyptian-American and addressed to “American and European
Read MoreKurd Region—A New Likely Theatre of War in Middle East
The rapidity and haste with which changes are taking place in the Middle East are unprecedented since the World War
Read MoreThe curious case of two lynchings and India’s reactions to them
Back to back, in the past week, two Indian citizens were lynched by mobs in two different states of India
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The blood connection of the ‘Lynchers’
The people who beat DSP Md Ayub Pandith to death in Srinagar, Kashmir, are of the same tribe as the
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All’s nearly well that ends well
ALL’S well that ends well. It was like a war averted between nuclear neighbors. How much poisonous hysteria can a
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Taj Mahal is not a reflection of Indian culture, says Yogi Adityanath
The Yogi says, “Foreign dignitaries visiting the country were gifted replicas of the Taj Mahal and other minarets, which did
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65 former bureaucrats speak out against intolerance
TOI tells us, 13th June ’17, “In an open letter, 65 former bureaucrats of Central services said they decided to
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Wrath over Qatar’s attempt to cross the Rubicon
The propensity of being drawn into the whirlpool of crisis has been overriding in the Middle East since long. The
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The Tale of two emigrants
Consequent upon the end of the WWI, the interregnum in Russian Poland and the rise of Nazis thereafter in Germany,
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The X Files of Turkey & the US: The Conflict Is Out There
According to Hurriyet Daily News, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on May 12, 2017, that U.S. support of the Syrian Kurds
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