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Shekhar Gupta

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44 years on, two things that have changed in Modi’s BJP, and one that hasn’t… #NationalInterest

44 years on, two things that have changed in Modi’s BJP, and one that hasn’t

As the BJP heads for a likely third successive term in power, it's fascinating to debate how true it looks to the original proposition: a party with a difference.

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4 years

Rhea is being subjected to a brutal, medieval witch-hunt. Doubly tragic that a large section of TV media is part of the mob inquisition. Next they would want her burnt at the stake. Shame on us, India...

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As a child of the sixties, I’ve seen every crisis, incl 3 full wars, food shortages, calamities. This is our biggest post-Partition crisis & never has India seen a Govt missing in action like this. No control rooms to call, nobody accountable to reach. It’s a governance rout.

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Ejected, beaten, bloodied, blindfolded, handcuffed, in enemy captivity... What do you say? This is my name, rank & religion. I’m not supposed to tell you anything else. Such courage, calm and professionalism it shows. You’re an inspiration to your countrymen Wg Cdr Abhinandan

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3 years

Flawless registration on the Cowin website. Shots done in minutes. Within minutes of the shot, SMS arrived on the phone, with time & place the shot was administered, nurse’s name, reminder about the 2nd dose & the number to call in case of problems. Wonderfully efficient.

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4 years

Ok guys, that was a true ‘senior’ moment and all of you say thank-you to me I gave you such a laugh in grim times. Of all of the dozens of memes I’ve seen though, this is my top of the pops (no pun intended)...

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4 years

Buying Vegetables Online....

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2 years

A prime minister’s security must always be a fully non-partisan issue. All institutions of the state security machinery, whether at the Centre or the states, have to take full responsibility for it. What happened with PM Modi’s convoy in Punjab is an unforgivable lapse.

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3 years

Celebrate the joy of 2 hockey teams in Olympic S-F, remember to send a humble thank-you note to Odisha and its CM @Naveen_Odisha ....For 6 years now, the not-so-rich state has sponsored & nursed both men and women's hockey teams. If only more states were to spend on sport..

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2 years

While we hope and pray for Salman Rushdie, we must never forget that India was the first to ban the book. It was a Congress govt with around 415 seats in Lok Sabha… So who planted the seeds of destruction of our secular polity...

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4 years

It is simplistic to dismiss Deepika Padukone’s support at JNU as ‘movie promotion.’ She’s a mega star & knows the risks of boycotts/demonisation. Which is what the mighty Khans faced & retreated. Or why the great AB won’t speak. The fact is that Deepika simply has more courage

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For all his fine oratory, this was by far the calmest, most measured & important speech Narendra Modi has delivered in his public life. This is just that juncture when India needs a mass leader who could speak sensitively, soberly, and inspirationally.

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4 years

Sushant Singh Rajput’s death shows how Bollywood can be so unfair to the outsider... Because it is a brutally competitive game with no umpires, adjudicators or whistle-blowers.. I write from some first person experience.. #NationalInterest

It's a dirty picture — that's what Sushant Singh Rajput’s death reminds us about Bollywood

Bollywood can be so unfair to the outsider because it is a brutally competitive game with no umpires, adjudicators or whistle-blowers.

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2 years

Here, spoken like Virat @imVkohli …spoken for all of us fans to…

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4 years

Never seen a Modi Govt so defensive. The labour disaster has shaken it. Half of the 10+ hours over 5 days could’ve been compressed into a humble one line apology: “Sorry, we messed up. We are working at making amends.” Pathetic to go on asserting ‘we’ve already done so much.’

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3 years

What legal doctrine does the court use to stay the laws just passed by both Houses of Parliament and notified by the president? There wasn’t even a whiff of a constitutional challenge yet. What’s next, a committee to resolve Ladakh with China?

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1 year

Can there be a happier sight than this for a sports lover… Champion sprinter PT Usha, among our greatest Olympic athletes ever, presiding over Rajya Sabha in session…

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Spoken like a true national leader. Sincere, convincing, powerful, humble & yet firm. Pleaded with folded hands at least 5 times. And totally non-partisan. Just the kind of message India needed at this juncture. #StayHomeIndia

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4 years

Fighter planes can make adult enthusiasts act like juveniles. But, while it’s great that the Rafales have arrived, we must be the global laughing stock tracking each take-off, landing, transit stop, refuelling as if it’s Charles Lindbergh making the first trans-Atlantic flight..

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Big story in the Chinese Covid surge is their dud vaccine & nationalism that blocked all foreign vaccines incl Astra Zeneca (Covishield). Scandal that WHO approved Chinese non-vaccines but denied India’s Covaxin. Who will dare question the big daddy…

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4 years

When Dev Anand & Kishore Kumar protested the Emergency, Govt banned their movies/songs on DD/AIR. Now, Deepika visits JNU & faces vile attacks led by top ministers, calls to boycott her film, a Govt promo featuring her is held back. 45 yrs later, sarkari playbook is the same

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5 years

Before you laugh or make jokes about Rakhi Sawant, count the microphones in front of her and TV channel logos. The joke is on us, the news media

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“Woh LESBIAN hai aur usne mera RAPE kia: “ #RakhiSawant ’s SHOCKING claims about #TanushreeDutta

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6 years

Confession: I once told Vajpayee I’d never voted for him. He squirmed in mock horror & said “abhi kuchch aur mashaqqat karni padegi,” (I’ll need to slog harder). Here was a PM you could tell you didn’t vote for, and it didn’t affect the trust, affection & time he gave you. RIP

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4 years

Anybody cheering mafia-style Hyderabad ‘justice’ should never complain about ISIS beheadings, Taliban lynchings & Maoist kangaroo court executions. Modern, civilised state evolved over millennia, but we still have no patience for due process—as long as victims are ‘others’..

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5 years

SC order on Rafale is a lesson to Congress. There’re perils in buying into mythologies & folklore and calling every Defence deal a scam. It sung just a loss of face. It’s a kick in the butt. And well-deserved.

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4 years

“BJP wants us to see Indian Sonia Gandhi as Italian but Canadian Akshay Kumar as Indian” ThePrint's @jyotiyadaav reports #PoV

BJP wants us to see Indian Sonia Gandhi as Italian but Canadian Akshay Kumar as Indian

Arnab Goswami's obsession with Congress president Sonia Gandhi's Italian roots is not his alone. His supporters and many BJP leaders can't see an Indian in her.

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5 years

Rafale/Rajnath/Shastra Puja must be the most ridiculous controversy in some time. All of India’s armed forces hold Shastra Puja every year. I have seen pictures of Nehru, Shastri & Indira Gandhi with troops at Shastra Pujas. Our culture didn’t begin with google or 2014

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4 years

The nuttiest story today is Maharashtra governor Koshyari taunting his CM Thackeray for “turning secular.” So which country’s Constitution does the governor think he’s sworn to protect....

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4 years

I was 5 in 1962. It took five decades after that to get India’s new generations to trust China. That trust won’t return for decades now. And never if a regime like CPC is in power. What visionary Deng started with Rajiv Gandhi in 1988, has been fully reversed by Xi.

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4 years

These visual will hurt India’s image for a very long time... This is among India’s best known public intellectuals worldwide, and this is in Bengaluru, our most globalized city... Somebody has to be NUTS to do this... Brand India is being made to fray, super-quick..

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. @Ram_Guha arretsed by @BlrCityPolice at townhall #CAAProtest

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3 years

It’s early days for the Biden Admin. Yet, it’s already confirming the hard truth that post-Cold War India-US ties have been way more robust under Republican presidents. It isn’t just the denial of critical exports. It’s the insensitivity of the response to a Quad ally in crisis.

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4 years

Disinfectant spraying of people, esp those coming from outside, is acceptable in COVID season. Watch China, Indonesia etc. Even with new airport arrivals. Drones are also used to spray. Disinfectants aren’t insecticides. Better to not outrage without facts.

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2 years

Trust Swaminathan Aiyar for honesty so rare in our public debate. Anti-Narmada campaign wasn’t just a giant con, it was another far-Left “block everything” hobbyhorse at the cost of the poor, farmers, & tribals. India should thank people of Gujarat & MP for defeating it.

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5 years

The 35-year Pak Army/ISI fantasy of bleeding India with a thousand cuts, using expendable proxies as gun-fodder has ended. They have to make a hard choice now: find peace with India, or blunder into an escalatory cycle. Low-cost options are over.

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5 months

When dissections and post mortems are done some will say Rohit was in an unthinking haste. Truth however is, he’s the only one who played the fearless new Indian cricket today. The rest failed to break out of the freeze..

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4 years

41 among pilgrims who returned to Punjab from the Gurudwara in Nanded have already tested +ve. Reminder that a virus isn’t spread by a specific religion. It is spread, instead, by the practice of congregation common to all faiths. It’s the opposite of social-distancing

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2 killed, 10 injured, Internet banned, curfew in anti-CAA protests in faraway Meghalaya. Under an NDA govt & the BJP’s favourite governor. No Muslims/Hindus/Congress/‘urban naxals’ to blame. Time BJP woke up to the fire it’s lit across India...

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5 years

We must be seriously under-employed to make an issue of Akshay Patra not using onion & garlic in its midday meals. Check the quality, quantity, nutritive value & taste of the clean meals they give. That’s why schools across the country want them. This is silly headline-hunting.

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2 years

FATF report again today. Not only does Pakistan fail to get out of the grey list, it’s joined their by its latest ‘best friend’ Turkey…

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4 years

Whatever the issues with some channels, journalism is overwhelmingly a force for the good. If Hathras weighs so heavily on our national conscience it is thanks to the courage & commitment of so many young journalists, most of them women.

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4 years

My favourite in the union home ministry lockdown notification is point 9: All religious places will remain closed. No religious gathering or congregations of any kind will be allowed. There will be no exceptions.

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1 year

As fans cheer and celebrate SRK’s Pathan success & stardom, remember his courage and fortitude too. The strongest, esp parents, would’ve cracked under what he’s endured. Success is the best & sweetest revenge

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6 years

The surgical strikes anniv celebrations are pure politics & electioneering. No govt has used armed forces for political propaganda and own Image-building than this one. Respectfully, it wasn’t such historic military event and ground situation in Kashmir is worse than 2 yrs ago

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2 years

Waqar Younis gloating over ‘namaz among Hindus’ is no shock or surprise. Cricketing talent is no cure for illiteracy, idiocy & bigotry. It’s disappointing only because it shuts up those few like us who’ve been batting for resuming bilateral sports with Pakistan. Not worth it.

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2 years

Our #50WordEdit on Europe’s crisis

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2 years

The one democracy where you see mounted police trampling protestors in 2022 has to be the Great Hypocrisy called Trudeau’s Canada. Just spare the rest of us ‘lesser’ democracies the sanctimony & virtue signalling.

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3 years

I notice some people asking who’s Wasim Jaffer and if he counts in Indian cricket. He played 31 Tests as opener, with a double 100 each against WI (away) & Pakistan (home). Besides, he’s India’s top scorer in 1st class cricket with 11,000+ Ranji runs.

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3 years

Our air IS filthy. Every year about 15 of the 20 cities with the filthiest air in the world are in India. We’ve also done little to address this, except pass the buck around. No point being outraged when Donald Trump speaks that truth. Our air is an awful global embarrassment

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5 years

Jo hum se takrayega, choor-choor ho jaayega... Unnao woman who accused BJP MLA Kuldip Sengar of rape hit by truck, lawyer dies... her father was killed earlier, also the lone witness to his killing... You think anybody in power feels ashamed?

Unnao woman who accused BJP MLA Sengar of rape hit by truck, critically injured

The Unnao woman’s aunt and her sister were killed in the accident while their lawyer was critically injured.

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4 years

Wanting to go home in a crisis is natural. If Indian students, tourists, pilgrims stranded overseas want to return, so do labourers in big cities. They want to go home to their villages. We can’t be sending planes to bring home one lot, but leave the other to walk back home..

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Farooq Abdullah, 83, with transplanted kidneys, detained under PSA...can be held without trial for 2 yrs... How mindless can it get... And you know what: in 1994, he was in Rao Govt’s all-star team under Vajpayee, fighting and winning India’s case at UNHRC in Geneva

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Anything you can do, I too can, Rahul Gandhi seems to be telling Narendra Modi by firing a CM. Now can he do the next thing Modi does: bring his party the votes too?

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India exploring a discounted oil deal with Russia is a perfectly good idea. Morality lectures are a joke. Nations act in self-interest. Americans are unwise to sanction 3 biggest oil exporters, Venezuela, Iran, Russia & leave even Quad allies at the mercy of extortionate OPEC.

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5 years

Afghanistan should fire their captain for egomaniacal stupidity. He had a real chance of becoming a mega star by just letting his team win, than insist on bowling himself at crucial points incl the last over—and spraying full tosses. The worst, selfish captaincy ever

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2 years

When Dhoni does a Dhoni on Mumbai Indians! Never mind the age, MSD will forever be the calmest finisher #CSKvsMi

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7 years

Journalism is nothing without courage. Democracy is nothing without dissent. You had plenty of both #GauriLankesh You live on as inspiration

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4 years

May be Yogi Govt is right & Hathras is a global conspiracy to defame UP. In which case, key conspirators must be his cops who burnt the body past midnight, kept family out. And the ‘genius’ DM who not only intimidated the family but also got caught on camera doing so..

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2 years

In no city or region of India are 99% people vegetarian. Even if they were, it’s a free country & no majority can force its choices on people. And if indeed they could, vegetarians beware. A very wide majority of us Indians are meat-eaters…

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Agree with Haryana CM Khattar the place for namaz is the mosque or own homes. It shd also apply to weddings, jagratas, bhandaras, kanwarias and all such. All shrines (of any faith) on encroached public spaces shd be removed

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3 years

Haryana’s nutty 75% reservation law brings the worst kind of inspector raj in the pvt sector. An army of those will now be visiting factories/offices, counting Haryanavis & checking their domicile papers to. This is how you poison your own lunch

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Astounded by govt threat in SC to use Official Secrets Act against N. Ram, and The Hindu and demanding the source of their Rafale stories. Government should be answering the questions raised, not shooting the messenger and the petitioner...

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4 years

Just how strong are these young women.....

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How to rescue a victim during a #lynching incident. Real life demo by women students of #Jamia

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India-MiddleEast-Europe corridor is a brilliant idea & a wide multilateral initiative with full G-7 backing. Imp that PM Modi underlined building infra that’s sudtainable & not a debt trap. It throws the gauntlet at Xi Jinping & his BRI finally has a counter

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Health minister Harsh Vardhan’s promise to provide the Covid vaccine free for all is generous. But, given the scale of the challenge & costs it will be pragmatic to let those who want/can afford, to pay. It’s fair too. A bit like the ‘give it up’ campaign on subsidized LPG..

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4 years

Think: if somebody had gone at a crowd pointing a gun, even fired in full view of hundreds of armed cops, what would they have done? Shot him forthwith. And if it was Kashmir, N-E, or other such? Think what it means. Let’s be honest at least on Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day.

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This is awful, awful BBC… just ignorant journalism and arrogant anchoring..Christine Fair has an oft state argument: in Afghanistan, Pakistan is the arsonist who pretends to be the fire brigade. Why invite her if you’re afraid of her saying it? Awful..

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Dear BBC: If you invite a scholar/expert for her *independent* knowledge, and then shut her up because there’s no official/spokesperson to rebut with a *government* position, then you are confusing the two. False and dangerous equivalence.

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4 years

Known Chinese psywar handle posts a fake claim of low PLA casualties at Galwan with a staged Feb video of some soldiers in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber claiming these are Indian captives being tended. Sad many fellow Indians are sharing & jubilating. That’s how divided we are...

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Why are people afraid of criticising you, Rahul Bajaj to Amit Shah (+Nirmala Sitharaman & Piyush Goyal) at ET event.. Then: is there any doubt that Godse was a terrorist? It needed someone of his stature & courage to speak out from Corp India

We are not able to openly criticise Modi govt, Rahul Bajaj to Amit Shah at ET event

With Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on the stage with him, Home Minister Amit Shah said 'no one needs to fear'.

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One clear verdict today: a stunning clean-sweep by the EVMs in all five states... This ends all urban legends, propaganda & loser’s perennial whine... India’s EC conducts the most efficient, clean & of course the largest elections in the world...

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5 years

Very disappointed but not shocked that Pakistan ruined its own “gesture” by forcing a POW to say things so obviously under duress. Civilised armies don’t do such things. I can see the usual “who’s the boss” tussle between the deep state & Imran and you know who wins there...

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4 years

Since so many of my wonderful friends here are asking, here’s my health bulletin: a second covid test was negative too but our smart pathologist found something amiss and dug deeper. He found a virus alright. But dengue. I am out of action for a few more days. But in good cheer.

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Touching, Advani sobbing at VVC’s Shikara.. Pls remind him that VP Singh was in power then, propped by BJP.. He didn’t pull it down over KPs. He was setting up his rath yatra & pulled down VP Singh later over Ayodhya.. Way more useful politically than plight of Pandits..

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The Chinese must be laughing their guts out. They come pushing at the LAC & a war breaks out between BJP & Congress. In a national crisis, India needs to be united. The onus of building that unity, however, lies with the govt and ruling party.

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Here’s an idea: All the fauji, foreign svc & intelligence veterans who preen on TV channels screaming for war should disclose if their kids live in India or overseas. And if overseas, will they return to help the nation when war breaks out. Since we’re so inspired by Israel...

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If economic growth is stagnating at below 5% level, and inflation is running up to 7.3%, we have the exact definition of the ‘stagflation’ Dr Manmohan Singh had warned us about in parliament... It’s a full-fledged economic emergency...

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Ashwin had promised Tim Paine if he comes to India it will be his last series. With him not having to lift a finger, his team has likely made this Paine’s last already... #INDvsAUS

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3 years

Wonderful 100 for skipper @ajinkyarahane88 on the big stage. If you follow Test cricket closely, don’t forget how nastily he’s been treated by the Kohli-Shastri duo who’re even happy to drop him from the playing XI despite being vice-captain. #INDvsAUS

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4 years

The mildest thing we can say about the SC contempt order on Prashant Bhushan is, a great institution is letting itself down. No criticism can undermine the top judiciary more than such thin-skinned shots fired in anger.

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No continent has had conflicts raging longer than Europe. No continent has birthed World Wars but Europe. Balkans/Bosnia are in Europe too. And Europe it is that brought about this bloody, global crisis. For 100 years, Europe’s been pivot of global instability, not Asia/Africa

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"This isn't a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European [...] city where you wouldn't expect that, or hope that it's going to happen." #Ukraine #UkraineUnderAttack #Russia

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Most shameful the bigoted targeting of @WasimJaffer14 in Uttarakhand. He’s an invaluable servant of Indian cricket, as a big-hearted player and coach. To target him for his faith is a crime. Sport is meritocratic, performance-driven. Dragging religion or caste will kill it.

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Be sure that Xi Jinping has fully taken into account the economic/trade loss this would entail for China. He’s thinking not money but hegemony. The world is looking at a militarily expansionist China. Its non-surrogate neighbours are just the first responders...

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5 years

CBI is left with 0 credibility for a supposedly autonomous agency. It’s a rogue vigilante of the rulers of the day. Only the gullible, or the faithful will believe it suddenly woke up to Saradha scam & went straight to grab a state’s DGP weeks before polls.

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In 40+ yrs of knowing him since he was Haryana Edu Min & Sushma Swaraj his deputy, I have never seen the elegant arya samaji without his turban. This is heart-breaking. To do this to a man because you disagree with him. Never mind that he’s also saffron-clad

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3 years

With 1.2 million active cases, and daily number reaching 2 lakhs, it’s bizarre to have poll rallies & a full Kumbh Mela. This will take the virus deeper into villages & small towns. This is the calamity we dodged with a crippling lockdown in 1st wave. Now we’re inviting it back.

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Silkyara tunnel rescue is among India’s most joyous successes in a long time. No lesser moment than any World Cup win. Shows India will even cut through the Himalayas to bring back its own, whatever the odds. Great credit for the incredible coordination among multiple agencies.

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1 year

Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination was a national tragedy & also the first time a foreign power (if non-state) dared to take it battles to India by killing its former PM. His assassins’ release is a national disgrace. It sets the worst kind of soft-state precedent

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5 years

Once again, by respecting the mandate in MP rather than try a smash-and-grab like Karnataka, @ChouhanShivraj shows why he’s among our most dignified political leaders. He’s a BJP stalwart in Vajpayee mould who nearly pulled off an incredible fourth term.

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5 years

The full video clip of Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar underlines the perils of igniting social media outrages before facts are clear. What he said & clearly meant is contrary to what it’s been construed to mean...

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5 months

The lack of intent from SKY will haunt him and also Indian think tank which gave him the coveted number 6 spot. T-20 stars can do with some humility going into ODIs.

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3 years

This 100 is @ashwinravi99 answer to those like Vaughan maligning his home pitch as a mud pile or asking for India to be docked WTC points for making a lousy wicket. If a number 8 can bat 135 balls & score a hundred, it’s about batting and bowling skills, not the pitch #INDvsENG

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Shekhar Gupta

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4 years

Too many of India’s chief ministers make a poor case for federalism. Shirking responsibility, they lean on the Centre to extend the lockdown and further strangle the economy. Then they demand that ‘mai-baap’ give them cash bailouts. This is pass-the-buck governance..

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6 years

It’s fashionable to say only 2.56% pay income tax in India. See it like this: 2.56% Indians pay all 100% of our tax. And you continue to strangle, and extort from only these few honest Indians

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3 years

Both Sputnik-V and J&J vaccines have peer-reviewed phase-3 results published. Both are approved in many countries. And both are being produced in India. Govt insistence on bridging trials is irrational. We can’t let India become the next Brazil.

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5 years

Modi Govt has been set on a disastrous course in Kashmir for some time. It has reversed two decades of gains, incl the investment Vajpayee made in holding fair elections. It has taken J-K back to bad old times. A terrible national disaster.

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3 years

Bharat Biotech is a world class company with a stellar reputation for research and reliability. A pity it’s caught in the Govt rush to clear a swadeshi vaccine. A few more weeks’ wait for more data would’ve only enhanced its reputation, and public trust.

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3 years

Don’t believe any politician who says I am not taking ‘this’ vaccine. They will all quietly get themselves fixed with Pfizer/Moderna while spreading a scare about vaccines a]easily available here. Just when we needed public figures to build vaccine confidence.

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I am not going to get vaccinated for now. How can I trust BJP's vaccine, when our government will be formed everyone will get free vaccine. We cannot take BJP's vaccine: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav #COVID19

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4 years

Names of stars “leaking” from NCB raise 2 good questions. One, why is it only women who “do drugs” in Bollywood. 2nd, when is NCB summoning Zeenat Aman for the real ‘Dum Maro Dum’ stuff in Hare Rama Hare Krishna? TV channels would love running those videos too..

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4 years

Yogi Govt’s strategy on Hathras is, anything but rape. Now random cops leaking ‘autopsy shows no rape.’ Who will believe their claims when UP Police & Govt were so frantic to burn the body at night, keeping out the family. This is destruction of evidence.

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2 years

Farm laws repeal is the 2nd big retreat by Modi Govt after land acquisition. These expose the limitations of parliamentary majority in a still ticking democracy. Numbers bring arrogance but public opinion still needs to be built.

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6 years

A man was hacked & burnt on camera. Most prime time outrage (exceptions apart), is on Mani Shankar Aiyar’s remark. Says something abt us

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6 years

3 of the 4 seniormost judges who spoke out are retiring this year. Spare a thought for the courage of Justice Gogoi, next in line to be CJI by seniority. This takes courage.

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2 years

Please discuss: Putin likely suckered Imran to Moscow this precise day to play the decoy, to suggest he wasn’t going to invade Ukraine right away. Nobody does that with the chief executive of a major friendly nation, you see…

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