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A reunion of friends
It’s a different Middle East, but Modi and Sisi need to reclaim the legacy of Nehru and Nasser.
Opening The Floodgates
Haji Ali will be reference point for similar cases involving rights of Muslim women.
A stranger in the assembly
A Jain monk being called to address the Haryana Vidhan Sabha is a first. It raises issues of propriety and sanctity — and constitutional questions.
Who has the licence to kill?
Unlicensed and illegal slaughterhouses present a municipal governance problem.
Because Father Cares
Maneka Gandhi’s reservations on paternity leave are based on gender stereotypes.
View From The Right: Future in the past
It points out that “the Bharatiya team’s chief medical officer wasn’t a specialist in sports medicine”, but was “a radiologist”.
Cotton, mustard, two GM debates
On one, government must not give in to armtwisting by the MNC. On the other, safety and productivity remain a concern.
Cities at Crossroads: Choking the city
Garbage generation has reached frightening proportions. Planners need to build on the successes of earlier programmes.
Drop the stone…
… because, to embarrass the rest of us into caring, Kashmiris must use fresh methods, free of radical Islam, free of violence.
Raja Mandala: Seal the partnership
Modi and Obama should wrap up the unfinished tasks in the agenda set by them before a new regime takes over in Washington.
Just keep the faith
Islam does not discriminate in allowing entry to places of worship. Yet, the Bombay High Court judgment upholding Muslim women’s right to enter the Haji Ali Dargah was constrained to invoke the constitution.
A Different Neighbourliness
Ironically, freedom of speech was first restricted to curb anti-Pakistan views.
Day of the specialist
Public policy requirements of the 21st century demand a bureaucracy less generalist
Next Door Nepal: Inclement weather in Kathmandu
PM Dahal must address coalition concerns, balance relations with India, China.
From Plate to Plough: Seize the crisis
Government has the opportunity to rein in food inflation on a sustainable basis.
In deep water
Scorpene data leak underlines the hazards of India’s dependence on foreign sources for military hardware.
Out of my mind: AAP serious hai?
Kejriwal’s attention is fixed on winning the Centre rather than making mohallas run better.
Inside Track: Turf tussle
From Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s floods photograph, here are some interesting stories of the week to think about.
Fifth column: Old slogans for a new problem
Burhan Wani, whose death caused the current spate of violence, was a peacetime terrorist.
Dalits are right: Enough is enough
Dalits are angry about the hollowness of the current hyper-nationalism where everything about India is called great and every criticism is labelled as anti-national.
Nature of the Muslim State
Democracy makes Muslim states unstable because they think Islam is essentially democratic.
I am Dalit, not SC
Why personal, social and political self-identification of Dalits must count more than the legal nomenclature.
What is Kashmiriyat?
Or insaniyat? Or jamhooriyat? In Kashmir, so-called solutions are riddled with contradictions and divisions
Draft surrogacy bill violates fundamental right of people to choose modes of parenthood
Overseas Indians, foreigners, unmarried couples, single parents, live-in partners and gay couples are barred from commissioning the services of surrogate mothers.
Irom Sharmila’s two struggles
The anger of her supporters should not be dismissed as selfishness or cynicism. As she changes course, she needs to take them along.
Telescope: Twist in a happy tale
OP Jaisha, the marathon runner, claimed that she had received no water from Indian officials along the route of the marathon, leading to her collapse at the finishing line.
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