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A year after Assam’s NRC released, citizenship of two million people remains under a cloud
They are yet to receive rejection orders explaining why they were left out of the register. It has been a year since Assam published its updated…
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Red Zone Files: The Maryam Factor
It was as if someone had hurled a big rock into still political waters. Maryam Nawaz Sharif has created ripples. Again. What happened outside the NAB…
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The Taliban Know Afghanistan’s Peace Negotiations End In An Islamic Emirate
A strong dose of realism is overdue for an Afghan people and international community visibly exhausted by years of conflict and yearning for a political settlement.…
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Need for Speed and Clarity: India’s Evolving Position on Afghanistan
Unlike the other regional players, particularly Pakistan that has been eager to keep the reigns of the Afghan peace process from slipping from its hands, the…
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Indian Army’s professional credibility under question
Months after the deadly Galwan Valley clash, it is still unclear whether or not Indian soldiers were violating the chain of command Chinese diplomats have been…
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Colonial Legacy and Majoritarianism in South Asia
Recent years have marked a dark spot for religious minorities in the country with several events including the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and the Babri Masjid…
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Two-thirds majority and responsibility
It was widely believed that under a proportional representation system, it was difficult, if not impossible, to get a simple majority. A 2/3rd majority under the…
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Will Kashmir turn into ‘heaven on earth’ again?
The state was also exempted from all the laws of the land, unless specifically adopted by its own Legislative Assembly Upon setting foot in Kashmir in…
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Fragmenting Tamil Politics
As Sri Lanka powerfully consolidates under the Rajapaksa-led SLPP, the Federal Party’s long hegemony of Tamil parliamentary politics is unravelling. The parliamentary election results are unsurprising…
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Art 370, CAA, triple talaq, Ram Mandir are just one cycle of Modi’s ‘permanent revolution’
If the opposition is waiting for BJP's cultural nationalism to subside of its own and material issues to become salient again, it will have to wait…
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General Election 2020: Stars Bite the Dust as Underdogs Shine
General Election 2020 concluded once again giving a two-third majority to a governing party led by Rajapaksas. While, there is no clear-cut idea as to what…