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Jugalbandis – Seven Political Partnerships

The Telegraph

On 6th August 2019, I was having coffee with a group of colleagues at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. We were discussing the abrogation, the previous day, of the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir. One of the younger members at the table, a computer scientist, remarked: ‘What we have now is not Modi [...]

THE INDIAN TRADITION OF NON-RENUNCIATION

The Hindu

Few people, within or outside her Congress party, expected Mrs Sonia Gandhi not to accept the office of Prime Minister after the Indian elections results were out. Her decision to renounce the post in favour of the economist Dr Manmohan Singh has prompted the most extravagant comparisons. Some have gone back as far as Gautama Buddha, [...]