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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...