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Caste Census in India: Counting a Nation, Confronting Its Divisions
An Examination of India’s First Nationwide Caste Enumeration Since 1931 Introduction Sometime in the coming months, an enumerator will knock on a door somewhere between the Thar Desert and the Sundarbans, tablet...
Cover Story
Tablighi Jamaat : 1000 years of revenge...
Two contradictions are evident. Through April and May this year, the government vilified Tablighi Jamat, a social organization that claims to be apolitical but has deep religious roots....
WINDS OF CHANGE...
ADVERTISING : The name itself conjures up exciting images. Passion. Glamour. Celebrities. Parties. To name just a few. These signals are enough for any bright youngster to dream about t...
THE ECONOMIC ROULETTE WHEEL...
THE wheel spins, swings, and sweeps in a frenzied manner. The economic ball jumps, bobs, a...
SYSTEMS FAILURE, SITUATION CRITICAL...
ONE of most quoted allegories of incompetence for a person holding high office is that Ner...
COSMIC DANCE, WORLDLY TRANCE...
Faith, Lies & Tall Tales The COVID-19 disease is caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus. It spr...
SELLING FAMILY SILVER...
Faced with an existential challenge of continuing to shoulder the humungous exercise of op...
Kejriwal: A political revolutionary or Machiavelli...
THE incandescent halo of Anna Hazare has dimmed like the smouldering ashes of a fire that ...
Much ado about nothing...
Narendra Modi’s style of diplomacy was again showcased in Houston. It is audacious to repl...
Governance
Population, Power and the Republic
Why India must resist weighted representation? As India heads toward a historic delimitation exercis...
The Grey Tsunami: Is India Prepared to Care for It…
India is on the verge of a historic demographic transformation. While the country currently has abou...
Before the First Rains Fall India is about to plant millions of trees. Most of them will die. As the...
State Scan
In a bold move that could reshape Haryana Congress, Rahul Gandhi is se...
There is a dark horse in the Tamil Nadu elections, the results of whic...
Vivek Joshi, a 1989 batch #IAS officer of #Haryana cadre in all probab...
Global Scan
Will Donald Trump’s team be able to Make America Great Again?
President Elect Donald trump wants to make a “Jump Start” with his transition team to get onto to his agenda and fulfil his electoral pledges to be synced with his voter’s support base. US President Elect Donald Trump wants to…
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Congress backs a Dalit wildcard in Harya…
The Congress has pulled a rabbit out of the hat at the last minute by giving Karamvir Boudh, a Dalit...By Renu Mittal
Nehru-also-wanted-strong-opposition-but-…
Narendra Modi declared that he hopes for a strong opposition, which would strengthen democracy. So d...
15 August 1975 : “We do not belong to th…
Very early on the morning of 15 August 1975, as he was getting ready for the Independence Day celebr...
Donald Trump is convicted in the hush mo…
Perhaps for the first time in the history of the United States, a president elect has been convicted...By TN ASHOK
Babri Masjid Demolition: Narasimha Rao …
Honouring a secret deal, Congress Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao was a front foot participant in...PicWill BJP be able to retain back 23 out o…
There are 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. This time Lok Sabha elections are going to be held in f...By Team
Bric A Brac
Kingmaker needs flesh...
It is quite intriguing to observe how politicians become Cabinet Ministers and C...
Dharavi Goldmine...
Dharavi. The moment one hears the name, a picture of ghastly slums and the den o...
CPM : Let Mamta be defeated first !...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in a fix as only 10 months are lef...
Finally, BJP needs media...
NDA 3 or Modi 2.0 has completed one year but the BJP leadership feels it has not...
North and South faceoff...
THERE is a kind of a lull in the non-stop chess game that’s played by different ...
Hooda, Tulsi in Rajya Sabha...
HOW did Deepender Singh Hooda, 42 and senior advocate KTS Tulsi, 72, newly elect...
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PMO overhaul
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reshuffled his office during the Covid-19 crisis. His Private Secretary Rajeev Topno, the 1996-batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, has been appointed as senior advisor to World Bank Executive Director S. Aparna, a 1988-batch…
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