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Shashi Tharoor’s word of the week: Curfew
21/December/2019
From denoting an evening signal when lights would go off to a clampdown when people must stay indoors at certain times, this word has a fascinating journey
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Narendra Modi’s Second Partition of India
17/December/2019
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Democratic India has never had a religious test for citizenship – until now. And the new amendment to the citizenship law approved by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is just one more brick in an edifice of official Islamophobic bigotry.
Dear Amit Shah, stop distorting history to explain your failures today: Shashi Tharoor
17/December/2019
Home Minister Amit Shah saying new citizenship law was necessary because Congress divided India on religious grounds shows he learned nothing in history class.
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Shashi Tharoor’s word of the week: rodomontade
15/December/2019
Rodomontade is a personal, rhetorical and a musical style - of bombast, pomp and flourishes.
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Now Modi govt has proved that it not only talks like Pakistan, it thinks and acts like it
12/December/2019
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is not just an affront to basic tenets of equality enshrined in our Constitution, but an all-out assault on the very idea of India.
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Shashi Tharoor: I want a New India where Rahul Bajaj can invest & speak fearlessly to govt
7/December/2019
Under the Modi government, dissent is seditious, protests are ‘anti-national’, activists are harassed, and free speech is censored through pressure on media owners.
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Shashi Tharoor’s word of the week: Quiz
06/December/2019
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Here’s the unusual journey of a word which initially meant an oddball, then became the equivalent of a joke, and now indicates a set of questions
American politics is taking a radical new turn. Socialism is no longer a dirty word
23/November/2019
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Shashi Tharoor: New Bangladesh holds on to Tagore’s memory, even if it’s a century-old visit
14/November/2019
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Shashi Tharoor: Next Parliament session will again see Modi govt propose, opposition oppose
20/October/2019
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‘Congress must not make the mistake of allowing the BJP to monopolise the nationalist narrative’
13/October/2019
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