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Opinion

Kashmir: Perils of a muscular approach

People shout pro-freedom slogans at a demonstration after Friday prayers during curfew-like restrictions in Srinagar on Friday, August 16, 2019

The Kashmiris must be won over, not bullied into submission

By A. S. Dulat

India

P Chidmabaran being taken by the CBI for interrogation.

P Chidambaram sent to four-day CBI custody by special Delhi court

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Back and forth in Supreme Court

By R. Balaji

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What drove Savarkar to Hindutva

By Vaibhav Purandare

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Iran call for ‘fair policy’ on Kashmir

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A Kashmiri woman holds her 40-day-old daughter, Tanzeela, as she waits near a police station to hear about her husband who was detained during night raids in Srinagar, on Tuesday, August 20, 2019. Authorities say thousands have been arrested in the communications blackout and security lockdown

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Hindus, Muslims no longer talk to each other

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This satellite image provided by NASA on Aug. 13, 2019 shows several fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon forest

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Rajnath Singh has also given his nod to set up a special vigilance cell under the army chief to look into complaints of corruption in the armed forces

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Nod for human rights cell in army

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Freedom of expression is a democratic value; that it should be used only to spew venom on those who are different is a perversion of that value, for it implies a deep inequality between those who are free to be poisonous and those who have no freedom to be different

Opinion

Redefining freedom, equality, and harmony

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A view of Kanchenjungha from Sikkim

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Sikkim expedition route to Kanchenjungha

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Roopkund lake and surrounding mountains

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Skeletons throw up Himalayan ancestry puzzle

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Savarkar wasn’t really setting out to create a Hindu nation. India was, he asserted, a Hindu nation in an organic sense
Restaurant aggregator or reservation apps like DineOut, Zomato, Easy Diner etc that have allegedly been playing on discounting are now the subject of ire and protest by restaurants that have been losing money
Katrina Kaif looked like a dream in the ornate lehnga
horse-racing
Comment
At a time when Indian policy-makers continue to pay lip service to defence reforms and the Indian armed forces continue to complain about the lack of resources, China seems to be moving far ahead in reshaping its military into a leaner, meaner fighting force
It is improbable that deterioration in bilateral ties with India's two neighbours with a nuclear arsenal — Pakistan and China — forced Rajnath Singh to drop hints about the revocation of the No First Use policy. What is probable is that he was responding to domestic political compulsions
In Prasoon Joshi's letter defending the Narendra Modi regime, what was a left/right, secular/communal divide is now embedded in a national-antinational opposition, turning dissent, opposition, terror and critique into questionable activities
The licence to earn profits does not extend beyond the existing laws of the land. Firms do undertake charitable activities, but those are voluntary and used to strengthen their bonds with society.
Iraqi children gather around a US soldier in Al Asiriyah, Iraq, in 2008. What breaks down the dubious narrative of the oppressor occupying the moral high ground, leading to the eventual failure of the occupation, is that violence perpetrated in the name of liberty is usually disproportionate
Protesters hold candles and signs during a rally denouncing Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and demanding an end to the General Security of Military Information Agreement, a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, in Seoul on Thursday, August 15, 2019
Working presidents of the Delhi unit of the Congress party salute the national flag on August 15, 2019
It’s a pity that Smith is (or was) a cheat, but Test cricket’s public (including the idiots who ritually boo him) is lucky to be able to watch him in his pomp
Crow, crow, crow your throat / Hoarsely down the stream / Horribly, horribly, horribly, horribly / Life is but a scream
Waves of ignorance have submerged sensible political life. It is a brave new world in which the prime minister insists, even to a gathering of doctors, that Ganesha’s elephant head was a result of plastic surgery
Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets school children in New Delhi on Independence Day
Mahatma Gandhi during the Salt March, 1930. The past can be a great teacher for the present. India must look back to such glorious epochs as the period of nation building by pioneering leaders — Gandhi could be one inspiration — to explore ways of reclaiming the liberties that are now under threat.
The resignation of Rahul Gandhi as president of the party has apparently thrown it into such disarray that the Congress working committee has put Sonia Gandhi back at the helm as interim president
Relatives of victims mourn outside a government hospital after three people were beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of cattle theft, in Chapra district, Bihar, on Friday, July 19, 2019
Paramilitary personnel prepare to close off a street with barbwire in Srinagar on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Curfew was briefly eased on Friday for Muslim prayers in some parts of Srinagar, but thousands had to remain indoors with shops and most health clinics closed, and communications cut off

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