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  The dubious national interest

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on March 03, 2021

  GENERAL Pervez Musharraf was returning from a strategic meeting in Colombo when Nawaz Sharif overplayed his hand. He interdicted the army chief’s flight, and set...

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  Bleeding from Shylock’s cut

  by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 25, 2021

  SHYLOCK is the big business, Antonio, the political parties. Let’s throw in Portia, symbolising law and justice, but which mostly eludes Indians currently. The news...

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  Sermons from left’s pulpit

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 17, 2021

  WHAT’S common between the ongoing assault on the farmers’ protest and the arrest of Disha Ravi, the 21-year-old climate activist from Bengaluru, and, simultaneously, the...

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  A blend of cricket and Tagore

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 10, 2021

  THE thought must be quite urgent that it broke through a riveting day’s cricket match being played in Chennai to pose the question. Since Khalistan...

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  Time to fix errant democracies

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 03, 2021

  THEY can chop journalists into pieces in Saudi Arabia and pour acid on the remains to wipe out all traces of the crime. Should that...

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  The Achilles’ heel of change

  by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on January 27, 2021

  COME to think of it, if it was heroic of Daniel Ellsberg to publish the Pentagon Papers and reveal the perfidy of several American presidents...

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  The handmaiden of capitalism

  by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on January 20, 2021

  JOSH Malihabadi had a word for the pervasive suffocation that Indians are swamped by of late. ‘Ab boo-i-gul na baad-i-saba maangtay hain log/ Woh habs...

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  Between the cup and the lip

  by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on January 13, 2021

  The world is waiting out the fraught days before Joe Biden can put the doomsday trigger out of reach of the ‘unstable’ Trump. The white...

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  Kill people, save property

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on January 06, 2021

  THERE are those among us who seldom if ever speak out against the fascist culture of mob violence that kills or maims innocents under the...

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  Land grab dressed as nationalism

  by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on December 30, 2020

  THE Modi government has proposed the setting up of a new waqf board for Jammu and Kashmir. Muslim waqf boards, or trusts, are rich in...