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Who’s US to tell India what weapons it must buy for its’ own defence?

Ashish Shukla - January 12, 2020

I was seven when the United States sent its nuclear-powered Seventh Fleet to Bay of Bengal to scare India during the 1971 Indo-Pak War....

Modi and his eerie silence: Rivals are digging up their own grave

Ashish Shukla - January 10, 2020

I am a little intrigued by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s prolonged silence since protests and strikes filled our newspapers from headmast to imprint...

JNU visit: Ms. Padukone, why not name this man in your pro life and say sorry

Ashish Shukla - January 8, 2020

(It’s an open letter to Deepika Padukone. Hopefully she would read it and respond. If for nothing, then for commercial success of her upcoming...

‘Tukde-tukde gang’ and its plan that you don’t know about

Ashish Shukla - January 7, 2020

How “tukde-tukde gang” would wish students of this country forget studies or a beckoning career and instead wield sticks and stones, make front page...

Modi is an excuse: Real fear is Hindu awakening

Ashish Shukla - January 5, 2020

I doubt there has been a more significant month in India’s independent history since The Partition. There have been famines, riots, four brutalizing wars dotting...

‘Bloodiest story of human history’ and its long shadow on resurgent India

Ashish Shukla - December 31, 2019

Never since the bloodbath of the Partition in 1947 which cost two million lives have Muslims and Hindus been so disenchanted with each other as of...

Abki baar, 400 Paar: BJP shows up break-India forces

Ashish Shukla - December 14, 2019

Think of all the reasons you could in opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 and you would’ve all of your answers in these two...

A bloodline of martyrs: Why this village rejoices in the blood it sheds

Ashish Shukla - December 10, 2019

The present year is a significant one for Indian army, it being the 20th anniversary of Kargil War and the centenary of its role...

Gassed to death: A tragedy India finds difficult to live down

Ashish Shukla - December 8, 2019

There were men, women and children, thousands of them, bursting through gates of the Bhopal railway platform, emitting a tornado of wails, the crushing...

It’s unlikely the buried last Sikh king would be exhumed

Ashish Shukla - December 5, 2019

It is no small matter that the last king of the powerful Sikh empire of the 19th century is buried in a small nondescript...

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