Two spectres: a worrying second surge amidst a successful vaccination drive, and another virus against which Indian society seems to have no antibodies: the politics of religion.
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Vaccines are here, inoculation is ramped up...just when you thought happy days are here again, Covid barrels down. Can we stop it?
India’s laudable supply of vaccines around the world has a strategic underpinning. Now it has to balance that with pressing domestic need.
Though among the global leaders in vaccine development, India still has a long way to go before reaching the level of the US and China
Academic freedom is non-negotiable and the State must stay away from affairs of the private education sector
The Hindutva strategy of bringing social animosities to the surface is making even its rivals play along
Never before has Bengal politics hinged so much on appeasing Hindu sentiment
In a land associated with ‘godless’ politics, every socio-religious animosity is being harnessed like never before in a war for votes
Demand for freeing temples from state control gains currency in poll season
The CAA-NRC gambit didn’t go the way the BJP would have liked in Assam, so that familiar tactic is back in play: a perfume baron is in the...
Mobilising economic discontent against crony capitalists can beat the politics of religious hatred, or so the Congress claims
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