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Christian Michel’s arrest leaves the anti-Modi ecosystem in shock

Abhishek Banerjee - 6 December, 2018

The arrest of Christian Michel, the middleman in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, shows that PM Modi is very serious about winning 2019

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Turning guilt-tripping into an art form, PETA adds ‘speciesism’ to list of humanity’s crimes on par with racism and homophobia

Sanghamitra - 5 December, 2018

We are living in a world where activism has become synonymous for hypocrisy.

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Rajdeep says sorry for calling Parliament attack a ‘great day’, but then, it WAS a great day for vultures

Nupur J Sharma - 5 December, 2018

A video went viral recently where Rajdeep Sardesai was heard calling Parliament Attack a 'good day' and he faced severe backlash for it

Opinions

After the Ankiv Baisoya case, it is time for educational institutes to set their processes right

Abhishek Tandon - 4 December, 2018

The recent decision taken by ABVP to suspend its Delhi University Students Union’s President is a perfect example of ABVP's style of working.

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42 days and counting. In jail for a joke: This is how Abhijit Iyer Mitra got caught in the mess

Sambit Nayak - 4 December, 2018

Abhijit has spent 42 days in jail because the judiciary has denied him bail. Let that be clear.

Fact-Check

As inauguration of Statue of Unity completes a month, the mindless, illogical criticism doesn’t seem to end

theangryindian - 4 December, 2018

Biggest grouse that the naysayers seem to have is that the money used to make the Statue of Unity, should have been invested in alleviating poverty

Culture and History

Christianity’s verdict on Hinduism: It is incompatible with the ‘will of God’

K Bhattacharjee - 4 December, 2018

Thus, we see that Christian missionaries have a clear critique of Hinduism based on their religious scriptures. To us, it appears bigotry but to them, it's the commandment of their God

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Here is how I became a Hindu ‘liberal’

antimony - 3 December, 2018

The harder I think, the more I realize that not knowing Samskritam, locking ourselves out of our culture is the most harmful thing that we have done to ourselves.

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Tharoor’s defence of janeu dhaari, tilak brandishing Rahul is… well, Rahul (the adjective it has come to be)

अजीत भारती - 3 December, 2018

Dear Shashi Tharoor, you come across as a person 'suffering' from sesquipedalianism, whose words are devoid of any actual comprehensible meaning when it is tried to be put in context

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