Opinion

Political circles here are agog with speculation that Kishor might align with a rival party in Bihar after his current assignment with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi assembly polls.

What we need to discuss is not whether the views of Sandeep Pandey and Rajinikanth are justified. The point is that they should be allowed to say what they think is correct, even if their thinking is incorrect, misleading, or even mischievous.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra took 11 years to make Shikara because he wanted to be objective and not be prejudiced by his own sufferings. Can he then be expected to do justice to the emotions that have shaped the anger of Kashmiri Pandits?

Today we applaud a hanging, not knowing that we might all one day be dragged to death for right or wrong reasons, for war or crime, in the name of nationality, law or one man’s beliefs.

The much-delayed expansion of Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra cabinet has seen the eruption of large-scale dissent from those left out across all three parties, which may work out to BJP’s advantage.

Despite living together for centuries, when and how did Hindus and Muslims become strangers? The wall of ignorance and mistrust divides the two societies or, one can say, this wall has been erected.

The bickering between BJP and AJSU Party, mostly revolving around the question of which ally would field candidates and from where, was like oxygen to the otherwise ‘asphyxiated’ JMM-Congress-RJD combine.

As the dissonance between the Congress and Shiv Sena reveals, the BJP will spare no opportunity to catch the fledgling alliance in a bind to pull it down under the weight of its own contradictions.

While national official statistics provide some cheer in terms of unemployment percentage, a look at the conditions in different states throws up a mixed bag.

It is sometimes argued that politics in India has now firmly intruded into the military space and that we need to live with this reality. That may be true, but we also need to ensure that the institution of the military retains its character.

The Muslim community needs to coolly think through about the review petition and change track. Unfortunately, they have no think-tank of rationalists to guide them.

Though the Muslim community may have actually reconciled with the situation and accepted it as its destiny, the hearts remain bruised.

More than the Supreme Court judgment itself, the RSS-BJP victory lies in the fact that the issue has been resolved within the parameters of the Constitution and has been received with equanimity.

Days before her assassination, prime minister Indira Gandhi had been advised to wear a bulletproof vest and dismiss her Sikh security guards, but she refused.

For a party like the Sena which ensured that it created a politics of “remote control”, this is a new experience where the remote control is now being provided with a battery as well in the form of Aaditya Thackeray.

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