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Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025
Two years after Galwan, relations remain tense, and arguably are worse than they have ever been since 1962.
The Rajya Sabha was modelled on the House of Lords, as an upper chamber that would not be elected by popular vote but consist of elder statesmen appointed on the basis of their stature and credentials.
The insular notion that domestic political debate, conducted in Hindi, will only affect domestic Hindi-speaking television audiences, has of course been rendered totally out of date by the Internet.
Two stories that revealed the arrogance of power were reported last week, and they raise larger issues that we need to reflect on as a society.
Use Hindi where it is understood, but use English everywhere, since it places all Indians from all parts of our country at an equal disadvantage, writes Shashi Tharoor.
Love of country is an elemental emotion like one’s love for one’s mother.
Those of us who have previously explained to the Hindi zealots that their arrogant advocacy of Hindi was counter-productive to national unity simply sighed and thought, these people will never learn.
India is clearly out of sync with European opinion, and it was good that the PM went to Europe to discover for himself first-hand how strongly countries feel about this issue.
The government that proclaims "make in India" is busy instead with "break in India". The barbarism is widespread across North India.
From the point of view of a State that is pledged to uphold the rule of law and maintain law and order, it cannot matter who struck the first blow, whether it was out of revenge for a previous blow, or whose fundamentalism is really to blame
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