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May 3, 2026 Amitabh Srivastava #AdamRizvi, #BJP, #BreakingNews, #CitizenVoice, #CivicSense, #GirishChauhan, #Indianews, #mumbai, #PoliceResponsibility, #PoliticalRallies, #protest, #PublicAccountability, #RightToSpeak, #SocialMediaDebate, #TeenaChaudhry, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #TrafficChaos, #UrbanIssues, #VIPCulture, #ViralVideo, #WomenReservation, Democracy

Monday Musings: One Protest, Many Lessons

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Columns India Politics

April 23, 2026 Adam Rizvi #AdamRizvi, #BJP, #GlobalIndians, #Indiandemocracy, #Indiandiaspora, #IndianJournalism, #IndiaPolitics, #MAMATABANERJEE, #NarendraModi, #PoliticalAnalysis, #SouthAsiaNews, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #WestBengalElection

Can Mamata Banerjee Win a Fourth Term? West Bengal Election Battle Intensifies

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Columns India Iran Politics US

April 11, 2026 Syed Ali Mujtaba #AbrahamAccords, #AdamRizvi, #AyatollahKhamenei, #CivilizationalConflict, #ClashOfCivilizations, #DonaldTrump, #Geopolitics, #GlobalPolitics, #Hindutva, #IndiaIsraelRelations, #InternationalRelations, #IranVictory, #IranWar2026, #IslamicCivilization, #IslamicWorld, #IsraelIranWar, #MiddleEastConflict, #PMModi, #SamuelHuntington, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #TruthSocial, #USForeignPolicy, #USIranTensions, #WarAnalysis, #WorldOrder, #Zionism, StraitOfHormuz

Iran restored the dignity of Muslims Worldwide in the Clash of Civilizations

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Columns India Politics

April 5, 2026 Amitabh Srivastava #AchcheDin, #AdamRizvi, #CurrentAffairs, #development, #EconomicGrowth, #Governance, #healthcare, #HumanDignity, #India, #Indiaeconomy, #MondayMusings, #NarendraModi, #Opinion, #PassiveEuthanasia, #PublicSafety, #RightToDieWithDignity, #RightToLiveWithDignity, #SocialJustice, #SupremeCourtofIndia, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #unemployment, #WelfareSchemes

Monday Musings: What About the Right to Live with Dignity?

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Columns Diaspora Politics

March 30, 2026 Amitabh Srivastava #AdamRizvi, #Bihar, #BiharDevelopment, #CommunityImpact, #EconomicEmpowerment, #EmpoweringWomen, #GrassrootsStories, #IndianGovernmentSchemes, #Jamui, #JamuiBihar, #JanShikshanSansthan, #JSS, #LivelihoodPrograms, #NaxalAffectedAreas, #RuralDevelopment, #RuralEntrepreneurship, #RuralIndia, #SelfEmployment, #SkillDevelopment, #SkillTraining, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #VocationalTraining, #Womenempowerment, #Womenentrepreneurs, #YouthEmpowerment

Monday Musings: Stories of Grit, Guts and Gumption

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Columns India Politics

March 28, 2026 Syed Ali Mujtaba #AdamRizvi, #Allegations, #AnandibenPatel, #BJP, #BreakingNews, #GujaratPolitics, #Indianews, #IndianGovernment, #IndianPolitics, #MadhuKishwar, #MaheshVikramHegde, #ManushiMagazine, #NarendraModi, #NitinGadkari, #PoliticalControversy, #PoliticalDebate, #PoliticalNews, #SexScandal, #SmritiIrani, #SocialMediaReaction, #SubramanianSwamy, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO

Politician and Sex crime is a new political culture in India

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March 8, 2026 Amitabh Srivastava #AdamRizvi, #BabyBoomers, #DomesticViolenceDebate, #feminism, #genderequality, #GenderRoles, #GenerationalDivide, #GenZ, #InternationalWomensday, #IpsosSurvey, #KingsCollegeLondon, #MarriageNorms, #NepalPolitics, #PatriarchyDebate, #SocialAttitudes, #SocietyAndCulture, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #Womenempowerment, #Womensday, #WomensDay2026, #WOMENSRights

Monday Musings: Dangerous Portends on Women’s Day

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Columns Iran Israel Politics US

March 5, 2026 Syed Ali Mujtaba #AdamRizvi, #GeopoliticalAnalysis, #GlobalGeopolitics, #InternationalRelations, #IranIsraelWar, #IranNuclearProgram, #IranWar, #IsraelIranTensions, #JCPOA, #MiddleEastGeopolitics, #Middleeastwar, #PersianNation, #RegimeChange, #SanctionsOnIran, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #USForeignPolicy, #USIranConflict, #USIranRelations, #WarAndDiplomacy, #WestAsiaConflict, #WestAsiaPolitics

Nature and Direction of the Iran War

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Columns Editorial India

March 2, 2026 Adam Rizvi #AdamRizvi, #DGPRailways, #Governance, #HumraKidwai, #IndianPoliceService, #LawAndOrder, #Passengersafety, #PoliceLeadership, #PositiveNews, #PrakashDIPS, #PrideInUniform, #PublicService, #RailwaySecurity, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #UPPolice, #UttarPradesh

Prakash D IPS Takes Charge as Director General of Police (Railways), Uttar Pradesh

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Columns India Politics

March 1, 2026 Syed Ali Mujtaba #AdamRizvi, #BajrangDal, #communaltension, #ConstitutionalValues, #DeepakKumar, #Hindutva, #IndianPolitics, #InterfaithSolidarity, #Kotdwar, #MinorityRights, #mobviolence, #MohammadDeepak, #RahulGandhi, #religiousfreedom, #ReligiousHarmony, #Sanghparivar, #Secularism, #SocialJustice, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #UnityinDiversity, #Uttarakhand, #VakeelAhmed

India needs the likes of Mohammad Deepak to contain growing anti-Muslim violence

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Columns India Politics

March 1, 2026 Amitabh Srivastava #AdamRizvi, #AmodKKanth, #BreakingNews, #childrights, #CriminalLawAmendmentAct2013, #DelhiSafety, #genderequality, #GenderJustice, #IndiaInternationalCentre, #IndianConstitution, #JusticeForWomen, #JuvenileJustice, #JyotiSingh, #LegalReform, #Nirbhaya, #Patriarchy, #POCSO, #PrayasJAC, #SocialReform, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #UNCRC, #Womenempowerment, #womensafety

Monday Musings: The Minor Is a Minor Issue, Milord

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Columns India

February 22, 2026 Amitabh Srivastava #AdamRizvi, #AIConferenceIndia, #BeggingInIndia, #BharatJain, #BhikshamuktBharat, #BombayPreventionOfBeggingAct, #childrights, #CommonwealthGames2010, #DELHIHIGHCOURT, #DelhiStreets, #EconomicInequality, #GDPGrowth, #HowdyTrump, #Kashmir, #OrganisedBeggingRackets, #PrayasJAC, #RehabilitationPolicy, #SMILEScheme, #SocialJustice, #SupremeCourtofIndia, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #UrbanPoverty

Monday Musings: Guests Come and Go, Begging Is Permanent

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Columns India Politics

February 10, 2026 The India Observer #AdamRizvi, #ArtForChange, #AwazTheVoice, #communalharmony, #CulturalDiversity, #EnvironmentalConservation, #GrassrootsActivism, #InclusiveIndia, #MinorityVoices, #MuslimChangeMakers, #MuslimWomenLeaders, #PoliticalRepresentation, #SocialChange, #TamilNadu, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #Womenempowerment, educationforall

Four women among 10 Muslim change-makers in Tamil Nadu

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Columns India

February 8, 2026 Amitabh Srivastava #AbetmentToSuicide, #AdamRizvi, #AIAbuse, #AIandSociety, #ArtificialIntelligence, #BlamingTheVictims, #BreakingNews, #ChildPornography, #childrights, #ChildSafetyOnline, #ChildSuicide, #DigitalAddiction, #EducationCrisis, #ElonMusk, #GrokAI, #IndiaBeyondSlogans, #KoreanGames, #MentalHealthCrisis, #MobileAddiction, #OnlineGaming, #ParentalNeglect, #PostCovidIndia, #PovertyAndEducation, #SocialFailure, #TechAccountability, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #UnionBudget2026, #UttarPradesh

Monday Musings: Catch the Real Villains If You Can

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Columns India Politics

February 3, 2026 Syed Ali Mujtaba #AdamRizvi, #BJPGovernment, #BudgetCuts, #EconomicInequality, #EducationalEmpowerment, #HindutvaPolitics, #InclusiveDevelopment, #IndiaPolitics, #MinistryofMinorityAffairs, #MinorityRights, #MinorityScholarships, #MinorityWelfare, #MuslimMinorities, #MuslimWelfare, #PMJVK, #PublicPolicyIndia, #SacharCommittee, #SkillDevelopment, #SocialJustice, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #UnionBudget2026, #WaqfBoard

Budget 2026- Allocation of frugal funds for Minorities is an eyewash

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Columns India

February 1, 2026 Amitabh Srivastava #AdamRizvi, #ChildAdvocacy, #Childmarriage, #ChildProtection, #childrights, #ChildWelfare, #CivilSociety, #DemocraticValues, #gunviolence, #humanrights, #IndiaDemocracy, #IndiaHabitatCentre, #JusticeForChildren, #JuvenileJustice, #JuvenileJusticeAct2015, #POCSOAct, #Prayas, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #UNCRC, #USDemocracy

Monday Musings: A Tale of Two Democracies

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Columns India

December 28, 2025 Amitabh Srivastava #AdamRizvi, #AmitabhSrivastava, #CriticalThinking, #HopeAndResilience, #HumanityFirst, #IndianSociety, #MediaAndDemocracy, #NewYear2026, #NewYearMusings, #OpinionColumn, #publicdiscourse, #Resolutions, #ThinkingMatters, #TIO, #ValuesInCrisis, #YearEndReflections

New Year Musings

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Columns Gaza Israel Politics

December 24, 2025 The India Observer #AdamRizvi, #CivicEngagement, #EthicalJournalism, #Faith&Justice, #FreeSpeech, #GazaCrisis, #GlobalPolitics, #humanrights, #InterfaithDialogue, #Israel-GazaWar, #MilitaryIndustrialComplex, #MoralAccountability, #Palestine, #RighteousAnger, #SocialJustice, #SpiritualRenewal, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #War&Peace

Faith, Justice, and Conscience at Year’s End: A Moral Reflection on War, Peace, and Accountability

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Bollywood Columns Entertainment India

December 23, 2025 Adam Rizvi #AdamRizvi, #AjitDoval, #ArunArya(IAS), #Bollywood&Politics, #BreakingNews, #CulturalPolitics, #Democracy &Art, #Dhurandhar, #FactvsFiction, #FilmCriticism, #IdeologicalStorytelling, #Indiancinema, #IndianNationalSecurity, #IndianSpyFilms, #IntelligenceBureau, #JingoismInCinema, #Media&Power, #PoliticalCinema, #PublicMemory, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO

Dhurandhar and the Rewriting of History: When Bollywood Crosses From Storytelling Into Political Messaging

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Columns India Politics

December 16, 2025 Amitabh Srivastava

13 Years of the Indian Spring: Remembering Nirbhaya and the Awakening of a Nation

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Columns News US

December 15, 2025 Amitabh Srivastava #AdamRizvi, #CrescendoofCaring, #FriendsofPrayas, #NorthBrunswick(NJ), #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO

Crescendo of Caring: Friends of Prayas Hosts Successful Holiday Event to Brighten Christmas for Local Children

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Columns India lifestyle

November 16, 2025 Amitabh Srivastava #38thFoundationDay, #AdamRizvi, #AmodKanth, #JanShikshanSansthans(JSSs), #PrayasJACSociety, #SalmanKhurshid, #SanchayPrayasSwablambanSansthan(SPSS), #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO

Monday Musings: Prayas has its Thanks Giving day, courtesy Amod K Kanth

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Columns Entertainment India Movie Review Politics

November 5, 2025 Syed Ali Mujtaba #AdamRizvi, #BharatKiBeti, #CriminalProcedureCode, #MovieHAQ, #MuslimCommunity, #MuslimWomenRights, #ShahBanoCase(1985), #TheIndiaObserver, #TheKashmirFiles, #TheKeralaStory, #TIO

Movie ‘HAQ’, based on the Shah Bano Case, Sparks Controversy

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Columns India lifestyle

November 3, 2025 Amitabh Srivastava #AdamRizvi, #BanditQueen, #TheGodofSmallThings., #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO

Monday Musings: Phoolan Devi again

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Columns Politics World

October 29, 2025 Syed Ali Mujtaba #18thBRICSSummit, #AdamRizvi, #BRICSDigitalSpace, #BRICSSummitNewDelhi2026, #Gender-EqualWorld, #LeadershipPublicPolicy, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #WomenEmpowermentthroughBRICS, #WomenTechnology&Innovation

BRICS Generation Call for Papers for an International Conference on BRICS+ in January 2026

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