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  A date with toxic alchemy

  by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on July 29, 2020

  AUGUST 5 will mark a year since India’s annexation of Jammu and Kashmir was carried out with stealth and speed that left the opposition gaping...

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  Is China telling Modi something?

  by Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on June 24, 2020

  Indian media described the Chinese as savage and barbaric. How did the Indians kill without the savagery ascribed to the other side? Jawed Naqvi writes...

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  Social virus as big a worry

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on March 25, 2020

  AN UNCLE who walked barefoot in Muharram processions in the village of Mustafabad in Rae Bareli would have been killed by a cut in the...

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  An optical illusion of sanity

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on March 18, 2020

  ‘BABU. Do you have any idea of the enormity of what you have just reported?’ The memory came wafting in of a rather worried phone...

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  ‘Not though the soldier knew’

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on March 11, 2020

  THE greater the sharpening assault by the delinquent state, the starker is the muddle and the helplessness of the opposition. Models and methods for the...

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  Bigotry: a handy state asset

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on March 04, 2020

  IT HAS been claimed by eager analysts that last week’s gory killings of Hindus and Muslims, predominantly the latter, in the working-class districts of north-eastern...

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  Sanders stalks Trump tour

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 26, 2020

  THE Gujarati language is the lingua franca of Indian stock exchanges. Gujarati businessmen traditionally play both sides of the political street and this is no...

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  Kashmir and other traumas

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 19, 2020

  AFTER tense days despite exit polls predicting outright victory for him, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party did sweep the Delhi polls with 62 seats in...

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  Foreigners and other Indians

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2020

  Narendra Modi’s idea of the Indian nation with frozen boundaries guarded by imported anti-missile systems borrows as much from mediaeval Europe as from the division...

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  A movement critically poised

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 05, 2020

  THE gunman half danced, half walked with a swagger towards the swarming crowd of India’s bravest women. His movements resembled a Shyam Benegal movie sequence...