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July 17, 2019 The India Observer #AdamRizvi, #AmnestyInternational, #antinational, #barakObama, #Britishraj, #Chrishanity, #cowvigilantay, #daveMakkar, #hindu, #Hindu Festival, #Hinduasim, #hindurashtra, #Islam, #Judasim, #LordRama, #MahatmaGandhi, #NarendraModi, #Netanyahu, #NKMODI, #Palestine, #PMModi, #RSS, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #VijayLakshmi, Israel

India, Metamorphosing Into An Apartheid State Under Modi?

By Dave Makkar, Edited By Vijaylakshmi Nadar, Copy Edited By Adam Rizvi: Indians supporting prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindutva, Nationalism,

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January 18, 2019 Nazarul Islam #Conservatives, #EuropeanUnion, #LabourParty, #London, #TheresaMay, Brexit

It is your time to depart, Theresa May!

TIO: I invite my readers to join me, in the realm of aa brief hypothetical. Imagine that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour

India Opinion

January 14, 2019 Shirin Abbas #Akhilesh, #BJP, #Congress, #Elections2019, #mahagatbandhan, #Mayawati, #PMModi, SPBSPalliance

BSP-SP Alliance of Survival Mayawati and Akhilesh’s can still upset BJP apple cart

Bitter rivals for the last two-and-a-half decades, pollsters are wondering if the camaraderie of the SP-BSP supremos will trickle down

India Opinion

January 11, 2019 Ninad Vengurlekar #Economicreservation, #forwardcastereservaton, #UpperCasteReservation

Upper castes have been recommended reservations. Entire India is now reserved.

Which means every caste in India has a reservation, either at central level or state level. Which, in a way

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January 11, 2019 Nazarul Islam

Red And Green are colorful reminders for Britons!

‘I also look forward to meeting with Chairman Kim Jong-Un, who realizes so well that North Korea possesses great economic

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January 4, 2019 AVIK GANGOPADHYAY #ballot, #Cold War, #Dictators, #Economic, #Elections, #Liberal modernization theory, #Politcs, #SouthAsia, #The India Observer, #Third World, #TIO, #transparency, #Voters, Democracy, India

Free And Fair Elections: Democracy in the Developing Countries

After the ‘so-called’ end of the Cold War, there has been a massive and profound optimism concerning the prospects for

India Opinion

January 4, 2019 Nazarul Islam #arabSpring, #IslamistRadicals, #MiddleEast

Dangerous liaisons: an investigative report!

The ‘Arab Spring’ is known for the recent upheavals, impacting the political direction of the Middle East. Obviously, this had

Opinion World

December 25, 2018 Nazarul Islam #Al Qaida, #Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, #Syrians, Bashar al assad, ISIS, US

Were the Syrians spared by God’s Will?

In human history, this was a miracle. Perhaps, there has not been a force of greater evil, than the terror

Opinion

December 23, 2018 Nazarul Islam #Chrystia Freeland, #Government caves, #Justin Tredeau, #Margaret, #Wanzhou, Donald Trump

Justin Trudeau may pay a heavy price for his blunder!

Perhaps we have all wondered about the political shrewdness of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his government. China’s furious

India Opinion

December 17, 2018 Nazarul Islam #Akbar, #Culture, #DonaldTrump, #hindu, Arthashastra, Buddh, George Tanham, Karl Marx, Klukhohn, Mahatma Gandhi, Namrata Goswami, Niccolo Machiavelli, Shivshankar Menon

An in-depth analysis of India’s strategic culture

India’s fleeting rise in the domain of science and technology during the last century gifted her people by way of

India Opinion World

December 9, 2018 Nazarul Islam #BajrangDal, #Blasphemylaws, #Christians, #Dalits, #hindu, #Minorities, #Missionaries, #Pakistan, #RSS, Gen Zia, Nepal, Orissa

Christian minorities are under siege in Indian Subcontinent

By Nazarul Islam, Edited By Adam Rizvi: India’s celebrated Christian community long pre-dated the British, who had sponsored missionary initiatives,

India Opinion

November 12, 2018 Shashi Tharoor #BJP, #CPIM, #hindus, #Kerala, #LordAyappa, #Sabrimala, #Sabrimalawomenenty, #womenentry

Why Sabarimala issue leaves instinctive liberals like me torn: Shashi Tharoor

Expecting BJP to fix Sabarimala is like hoping an arsonist will develop a better fire-extinguisher. Ihave been wrestling with the

India Opinion

November 5, 2018 Yusra Jabeen #AdamRizvi, #AlokNath, #AmyraDastur, #betibachao, #GhazalaWahab, #M.J.Akbar, #metoo, #METOOMOVEMENT, #NavneetNishan, #PriyaRamani, #SajidKhan, #SandhyaMridul, #sexualharrassment, #ShutapaPaul, #SonaMohapatra, #TaranaBurke, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, #TushitaPatel, #VintaNanda

Me Too Movement

You are Here: Tweet, Like, Share, Comment, Subscribe…be the Voice of Free Press! By Yusra Jabeen, Copy Edited By Adam

India Opinion

September 4, 2018 The India Observer #Bastar, #Chhatisgarh, #JHARKHAND, #Naxalism, #TELANGANA, #UrbanNaxals

The debate on the arrest of ‘Urban Naxals’

With the recent arrests of the ‘Urban Naxals’ as they are being called, a lot is being said about the

India Opinion

September 4, 2018 Yashwant Sinha #BJP, #Congress, #Demonetisation, #YashwantSinha

Time To Punish Modi For Demonetisation Fiasco

The annual report of the RBI released a few days ago is the last nail in the coffin of the failed demonetisation

India Opinion

August 19, 2018 Ninad Vengurlekar #AtalBihariVajpayee, #TheIndiaObserver, #TIO, atalji, PM-vajpayee

Vajpayee was a fakir in true sense of the word!

Exclusive for TIO by Ninad, Copy Edited By Adam Rizvi: There is a section of media trying to put down

India Opinion

July 27, 2018 Shirin Abbas #alwar, #cowvigilantes, #fakenews, #Hapur, #Lynching, #mobocracy, #Watsapplynchings, #Watsapprumor

Why is the Indian govt. mum on lynch mobs targeting Muslims, Dalits?

The Indian media is full of horrifying reports of lynch gang murders. Some 69 cases of mob violence have been

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July 27, 2018 Adam Rizvi #GPARTHASARATHY, #ImranKhan, #Pakistanelections, #UNIONMINISTERRKSINGH

Not a Bollywood villian, want to improve Indo-Pak ties : Imran Khan in first speech after victory

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman said Kashmir is the “core” issue between the two countries and it should be resolved through

India Opinion

July 8, 2018 Ninad Vengurlekar #JNU, #jordanpeterson, #KanhaiyaKumar, #studentactivism, #UmarKhalid, #utopia

JNU and its tryst with student activism with Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar

So Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar are back in news. The right-wing leaning JNU panel has penalized and ordered rustication

India Opinion

June 9, 2018 Shirin Abbas #AbhijeetNath, #AssamLynching, #NilotpalDas

Assam Lynching: Nell, ask me for Cha & Chakhna once more…

Needless, senseless and totally unforgivable It is strange that just a few minutes before the news of his death, I

India Opinion

May 29, 2018 The India Observer #Ghettos, #Gujarat, #localities, #Maharashtra, #Muslims, #urbanspaces

The segregated city

Ghettoisation and Disturbed Areas Act are dividing urban spaces in Gujarat, pushing Muslims to the edge. In the current debates

Opinion World

May 28, 2018 Shirin Abbas #IrelandAbortionLaw, #IrishAbortionReferendum, #LeoVaradkar, #SavitaHalappanavar

My body, My choice—finally as it should be!

Ireland votes for change and women’s rights on their bodies. It took the sad death of an Indian origin mother

India Opinion

May 25, 2018 Ram Nath Kovind #futuregenerations, #Indiaat100, #Indiaat75, #Mahatma@150, #Mashobra, #Nature, #PresidentofIndia

Mashobra musings: President Ram Nath Kovind on mutualism and the message of nature

What will India be like at 100 — in 2047? In Mahatma’s bicentenary in 2069? We don’t know. But our

India Opinion

May 18, 2018 Roy Daniels #Karnatakaelections, #Karnatakapolls, #SupremeCourt, #Yeddyurappa

The game of political chess in Karnataka!

The governor has decided to swear in Yeddyurappa. But even that is being denied, and not announced. What do the

Opinion

May 18, 2018 Vaishna Roy

Waiter! There’s a fly in my holy water

Of gods and men. And why it is better that they stay in their own worlds Two recent episodes demonstrated