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Abhishek Banerjee

Abhishek Banerjee is a columnist and author.  

What they never told you when they said India was the worst performing emerging economy

India’s economy contracted by 23.9%. For comparison, Brazil’s GDP contracted by 11.9% and Russia’s GDP by 8%. So, did they really do better than India?

France, Germany, UK and all other countries we should boycott for using water cannon and tear gas

As a newly woke nation, we also have a moral responsibility to oppose other countries that carry out atrocities such as using water cannons on protesters.

Yogendra Yadav is not a farmer leader: Here is why urban Indians should reject this hollow emotional blackmail

The India Today banner reads “Gold standard of journalism" as they discuss the 'farmer protest' in Punjab, led by Rajdeep Sardesai

Indian law never defined “marriage”: Here is why govt needs to be involved in inter-faith “marriage”

A number of very different legal institutions are grouped under the loose word “marriage.” Naturally therefore, the government has to step in and make rules about how to move between these very different institutions.

It is offensive to pretend that anyone is shocked by Kerala’s draconian new censorship law

The Communists who once ruled Bengal with an iron hand would laugh at his Kerala's new draconian law. Kim Jong Un would be so unimpressed.

Liberal outrage over no Muslims in Bihar’s ruling alliance hides caste realities in Indian Muslim society

The Pasmandas, who make up 85% of Indian Muslim society, are systematically denied a voice within their community.

How come MIM did not face the “outsider” jibe in Bihar?

What is different about the appeal of MIM that parties like Shiv Sena or JMM or TMC don’t have?

How to be a “political scientist” – Bihar edition

Meet D M Diwakar, an eminent political scientist of the A N Sinha Institute of Social Sciences in Patna.

The economics of liberal outrage – the genocide this week they all forgot

Thousands of Armenian Christians have been killed following the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, however, the liberals don't seem to care

Why Nehru deserves the flak he gets on his birth anniversary and every other day — and how Sonia and Rahul are to blame

It’s Nov 14, the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru. Or as they used to call it back when I was a kid in school: Children’s Day.

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