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  Can the right be dislodged?

  by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on June 09, 2021

  A USEFUL pointer to Narendra Modi’s political quandary lies in the clear chance that his party could be defeated in Uttar Pradesh in elections due...

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  Battle of rival memories

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on May 26, 2021

  THE Nakba is to the Palestinians what the Holocaust is to the Jews. There is a difference though. Nobody in their senses would deny the...

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  The doppelgangers of mayhem

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on May 19, 2021

  THERE are striking similarities between Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi, not the least their cynical methods of staying in power. But there are differences too....

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  Mamata kindles India’s hope

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on May 05, 2021

  IT WAS a crucial make-or-break vote that PV Narasimha Rao faced when Mamata Banerjee was ushered in in a wheelchair and helped to her seat...

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  Like the Cheshire cat’s grin

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on April 16, 2021

  A JOURNALIST friend has written a whole new book to caution that a cultural revolution is under way in India led by Hindutva. Let’s reserve...

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  Characters in a Sartre play

  by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on April 01, 2021

  THE search for petty advantages has been the bane of larger quests — as true of politics as of any other public sphere. The Nazis,...

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  Thank the left for the right

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

  TRUTH be told, now that the left has lost its moorings, it’s mainly the right wing that calls the shots in South Asia. Who is...

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  Guru’s cuppa with Rumi

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

  LISTENING to communist icon Kobad Ghandy express his affection for Afzal Guru — the late fellow inmate in Delhi’s Tihar jail — one couldn’t help...

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  If a horse befriends the grass

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

  THERE is talk of peace between India and Pakistan, which should be welcomed with a tight embrace by both sides and by the world at...

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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...