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Opinion Nov.25.19

The NRC is part of the BJP's attempt to redefine India's identity

The Opposition’s feebleness at this moment of crisis for our secular, democratic founding principles is deeply worrying
By The Editorial Board
Opinion Aug.22.19

The redefinition of freedom, equality, and harmony

Majoritarian rhetoric is surreptitiously corrupting the meanings of words
By The Editorial Board
Opinion Aug.15.19

Things to ponder as India turns another year older

On this Independence Day, the nation must remember that the price of liberty is not vigilantism, but eternal vigilance
By The Editorial Board
Opinion Jul.19.19

The biggest casualty of the Modi regime: civil society

We need a politics that combines the local with the planetary, challenging the limits of the global paradigm
By Shiv Visvanathan
Opinion May.24.19

The other path: Majoritarianism and its remedy

The federal idea, with deep roots in regional cultures, has a renewed urgency today as an alternative to majoritarianism
By Sugata Bose
Opinion Apr.28.19

False citizens: What does a nation do with a minority that it cannot purge?

Demanding obedience, deference and public abasement from minorities is the majoritarian’s stock-in-trade
By Mukul Kesavan
India Jan.27.19

Congress plugs its idea of India: no majoritarian ideology, please

Leaders from all the states were instructed to post videos conveying #OneNationBillionIdeas
By Our Special Correspondent
Opinion Nov.21.18

Durga Puja and the myth of the universal

The Pujas have long opened up new spaces through negotiation, but political encroachment now threatens the potency of such parleys
By Uddalak Mukherjee

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