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On its first anniversary, Sushant Singh in Delhi and Khurram Husain in Karachi sit down with Varadarajan to discuss questions related to Operation Sindoor and draw up a balance sheet – military, political, and diplomatic.
In 2002, there must have been ministers that thought K. Subrahmanyam – who was well over 70 at the time – had been ‘vicious’ in calling a democratically chosen leader an ‘asura’. Mercifully, none of them attacked him for being old.
In his August 15 speech, Prime Minister Modi sidestepped demands on the government to deliver on its promises and instead laid great emphasis on citizens fulfilling their duties. The Orwellian new name for Delhi’s Rajpath adds to this push.
As we face the very real danger of losing our democracy, it is important for us to believe that we can and will pull ourselves back from calamity.
Unfortunately for Adityanath and Narendra Modi, the ‘80-20’ statement not only exposes the central role communal hatred plays for the BJP in elections but the actual election result has thrown up contrarian arithmetic.
The past week has seen two stalwarts of the Narendra Modi regime – National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat – make up new theories on the hoof to justify violations of the rule of law in the name of the greater good of the nation.
Why is it that mass injustice in the face of mass communal crimes has become such an established pattern of state practice in modern India?
Since there is no law that prescribes the death penalty for men who marry their wives on false pretences, the UP chief minister’s reference to funerals sounds like a call to vigilante violence.
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