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The dangers of Israelisation
By T.J.S. George Pakistan is ruled by its military and the military has an animosity against India that won't go away. The reason is permanently engraved in a photograph — Gen. A.A.K.…
12 Mar 2019 · 4 min read
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No time for Politics, Jingoism
By T.J.S. George It is good that 12 fighter jets bombarded a terrorist camp in Pakistan with the intention of delivering a blow that would be remembered. More significantly, India crossed the…
5 Mar 2019 · 4 min read
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1984 and compulsive contrarians
By T.J.S. George It's now two months since the Union Government issued orders that turned India into a surveillance State. Ten investigative agencies were authorised to "intercept, monitor and decrypt" all computer…
26 Feb 2019 · 4 min read
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BEFORE TERRORISTS, WE ARE ALONE
By T.J.S. George Prime Minister Modi had, and will continue to have, the backing of all of India in his stand against the terrorists who "made a big mistake" in attacking jawans…
19 Feb 2019 · 4 min read
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Vadra, a timely weapon for BJP
By T.J.S. George Unlike father Rajiv Gandhi and brother Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi has to wear two crosses — the Gandhi dynastic cross and the Vadra controversies cross. The second hurts more.…
12 Feb 2019 · 4 min read
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Why North-East Citizens Rebel
By T.J.S. George Imagine all South Indian States uniting on a platform of ethnic difference from the North, as C.N. Annadurai briefly contemplated once upon a time. Something similar is happening in…
5 Feb 2019 · 4 min read
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When midgets hijack Democracy
By T.J.S. George Small men in big chairs are usually dangerous. It isn't just the Napoleon Complex: the tendency among short men to be overly assertive to make up for their lack…
29 Jan 2019 · 4 min read
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MLAs for sale, again and again
By T.J.S. GEORGE What a curse democracy has become. It truly is bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. With no stops. Look at the cabinet circus in Karnataka.…
22 Jan 2019 · 4 min read
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Ayyappa politics is sacrilege
By T.J.S. George Two factors are preventing the Sabarimala conundrum from moving towards a solution — and the self-promoting politics of BJP-RSS forces are too unimportant to be one of them. It's…
16 Jan 2019 · 4 min read
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Claims Vs Facts in a New Year
By T.J.S. George Now that a week has passed, we can reckon how many New Year resolutions have already been broken and how many are left to go down the drain. There…
8 Jan 2019 · 4 min read
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How Ambedkar makes us richer
By T.J.S. George The Hindus wanted Vedas, and they sent for Vyasa who was not a caste Hindu. The Hindus wanted an epic, and they sent for Valmiki, an untouchable. The Hindus…
25 Dec 2018 · 4 min read
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Hinduism triumphs over Hindutva
By T.J.S. George This column has said more than once that the greatness of India lies in its majority community voting, not as Hindus, but as Indians. By far the most dramatic…
18 Dec 2018 · 4 min read
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Manufacturing humans to order
By T.J.S. George Is editing babies in the womb the next big thing? A Chinese scientist who claimed the first embryo-engineered birth said the babies he produced would get neither HIV nor…
11 Dec 2018 · 4 min read
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Politics promotes bad manners
By T.J.S. George When we say or do things that we should not say or do, it's bad manners. In this election season bad manners became the very norm of public life.…
4 Dec 2018 · 4 min read
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Naxals and other pestilences
By TJS George What exactly is a Maoist? Or a Naxalite? Or an Activist? Or an Anti-national? Or an Urban Naxal? (Is there a Village Naxal?) Obviously there is something bad about…
27 Nov 2018 · 4 min read
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Grave new world of Xi, Trump
By T.J.S. George The avatars of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping aim at making China the leader of the world. They have almost reached their targets. Under Trumpavatar, the policy of America…
20 Nov 2018 · 4 min read
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Why let religion destroy India ?
By T.J.S. George What's happening to our country? A huge and diverse land of 135 million people, 29 states and 22 scheduled languages, yet we are caught in a single obsession —…
13 Nov 2018 · 4 min read
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Burden of being always right
By T.J.S. George Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has the advantage of knowing that he is always right. Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel has taken his own time to learn that. Which is…
6 Nov 2018 · 4 min read
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The State as a conspiracy ?
By TJS George As Chief Ministers go, K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) is in a class of his own. He is known as an effective speaker and he is a good tactician. These…
30 Oct 2018 · 4 min read
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A crown Prince warns the world
By T.J.S. George Saudi Arabia's attempts to play innocent in the murder of US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi flopped from the start. Even Saudi supporter Donald Trump initially expressed dismay and called…
23 Oct 2018 · 4 min read
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Haksar Files. What About Others ?
By T.J.S. George History lies hidden in government files. Hidden because, while modern democracies declassify records after a reasonably brief period of time, India sits on them, sometimes for ever. Occasionally, a…
16 Oct 2018 · 4 min read
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Judges, retirement and justice
By T.J.S. George Chief Justices come and Chief Justices go, but the going of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra has been somewhat historic. He was, for example, the first CJI…
9 Oct 2018 · 4 min read
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A revolutionary turn in RSS ?
By T.J.S. George Imagine the Pope criticising Jesus Christ. If that is too ecclesiastical, imagine Sitaram Yechury rewriting Karl Marx. Actually we cannot imagine either because the Catholic Church and the Communist…
2 Oct 2018 · 4 min read
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Indian Muslims: Differing views
Perhaps Indian Muslims attract special attention because their story is related to the religion-based partition of India. By T.J.S. George It is the irony of ironies that (a) The Government of India…
25 Sept 2018 · 4 min read