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India should attract Chinese investment even while checking it strategically Without making big national headlines, China’s Gland Pharma launched the biggest initial public offering (IPO) of shares in Indian pharmaceutical history of ₹6,500 crore in November. This was oversubscribed more
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Santa may not have gifts for BJP in 2021
Let me stick my neck out and say 2021 is going to be a tough year for the BJP. Its landslide win in the 2019 general election has diverted attention from the fact that it has fared badly in 11
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India less secular but far from a one-party state
Covid apart, what was 2020’s main trend? Some say Hindutva rose and civil liberties fell. The Economist claimed India was moving towards a one-party state. I would argue exactly the opposite. India has proved that multi-party democracy and dissent are
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Let Us Not Totally Cop-Out
India’s police force, for all its blights and corruption, is overstretched and needs help Like many, I have watched the fascinating Netflix series ‘Delhi Crime’. Unusually, it is told from the viewpoint of a harassed, overworked and unfairly castigated police
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Farmer agitation: Use iron fist in a velvet glove
The agitating Punjab farmers can be painted as saints or sinners. On the one hand, they spearheaded the Green Revolution in the 1960s when India was starving, helping India become not just self-sufficient but a grain exporter. For this they
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Apex court needs to strike down ‘love jihad’ laws
Individual rights are freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Group rights are politics. In a democracy, politicians pander to vote banks and hence often back rights demanded by religious or caste groups. Individual rights do not have the same political clout.
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