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Can’t be objective on fascism
Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on November 18, 2020
‘IT IS not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education,...
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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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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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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...
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Satanic times, as Josh warned
Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on January 29, 2020
‘SHAITAN ek rat mein insan ban gaye | Jitne namak haram the kaptan ban gaye.’ Josh Malihabadi in his plain-speaking verse was describing what he...
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Fighting with what one has
Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on January 22, 2020
INDIA’S right-wing rulers are riding the proverbial tiger, and they know it in their bones. Losing control of the reins would unleash dreadful prospects for...
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Ray of hope in dark times
Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on January 01, 2020
SYMBOLISM sometimes becomes more real than the reality it shadows. Observing the dark times Indians are fighting against with a blend of grit and determination,...
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Who wants Modi’s charity?
Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on December 25, 2019
WOULD Malala Yousafzai make the grade for prime minister Narendra Modi’s high-octane promise of citizenship for a select few — a violent and divisive reality...