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India counts its eggs while Corona hatches its killer plan: Who blinks first?

Ashish Shukla - March 31, 2020

(The figures in this piece were valid till early Monday). India mutated into 36 new Indias on Sunday. All the 29 states and 7 union...

‘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...

Onion crisis and its political shadow is one of history’s poor jokes

Ashish Shukla - November 28, 2019

India is battling a crisis of onions, which its’ billion-plus citizens can’t do without, threatening a political fallout too grave in nature, and which...

New India beefs up Mahatma Gandhi in a formidable armour

Ashish Shukla - October 23, 2019

India is abuzz with Mahatma Gandhi in the year of his 150th birth anniversary but there is a new version to his message of...

Hail India’s war against poverty but don’t overlook the dangers ahead

Ashish Shukla - October 20, 2019

Every coin has two sides but let’s first flip the one which is justifiably being feted across the globe: In mere 10 years, India...

BIMSTEC and India’s waterways strategy

Sanjay K. Sharma - July 17, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Mutli-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) leaders for his second swearing-in ceremony and one...

Left is over; let a thousand lotus bloom

Ashish Shukla - May 25, 2019

BJP has swallowed Left in West Bengal which is a significant tide in the history of the state and the nation. With Kerala gone too,...

Modi nails lies on Citizenship Bill; Assam roars in approval

Ashish Shukla - February 10, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi came down hard on the misinformation on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in a public rally in Amingaon, Assam on Saturday...