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By Jagdish Rattanani |
Many years ago, a plainclothes police officer known as an “encounter specialist”, that uniquely Indian term that has…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It will be sometime before the depth of Narendra Modi’s electoral sweep sinks in and a much longer time before the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are a host of considerations that rule, and not all of them are easily fathomed by city folk who tend to prefer…
By Aseem Shrivastava , Aryaman Jain |
The rise of Hindutva in a country that was thought to be largely secular has flummoxed many. Whatever the outcome of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Even for those who might have held Rajiv Gandhi culpable in the mass of allegations around the Bofors gun, his death…
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April 13 is a dark day in India’s colonial history. This year, it marks the 100th anniversary of the brutal Jallianwala…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Yet, somewhere along the heat and dust, unsaid, unmarked and unexplained, the BJP narrative has begun to falter and…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is much debate on the Indian National Congress campaign promise of NYAY – justice in English but in Hindi an…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In the midst of a heated campaign for the upcoming national elections, the death of a local school teacher in police…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The chowkidar is, quite unfortunately, not the most loved or respected entity in Indian society. Examples of this are…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This summer will be unusually hot. The rising temperature from what still is only the early round of campaigning is…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Supreme Court recently rejected a petition which asked that “criminal” candidates be disqualified from contesting…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Prime Minister has spoken about the attacks on Kashmiris, and he has done so not a day too soon. This is good but…
By Vappala Balachandran |
We all saw the dramatic events unfolding in Kolkata beginning with the CBI raid on Police Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on…