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Any push down the Chumbi Valley and then control of the Siliguri corridor will cut off the northeastern States
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Though divided by race, nationality and political affiliation, we are all human beings, and deserve to be cared for
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This is the right to time to sift our responses to the pandemic and use the experience to move ahead
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The Modi govt has made anti-corruption Acts ineffective while its own steps are either disastrous or nonstarters
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A crisis produces its own folk devils, and currently these are Pfizer, Bill Gates and Covid vaccines
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Eleven years have elapsed since Polavaram was cleared but the Centre is yet to implement the Tribunal Award
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Government should shed its rigidity and find a middle ground accommodating farmers’ aspirations
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Now a tangible solution would be to make amendments and provide assurances to farmers, particularly on MSP and APMCs
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Under PDPS, farmers are paid the difference between MSP and the model price of the market, without actual procurement
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Chinese dams on the Brahmaputra will significantly cut water to Assam and can inundate the Northeast
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Just as ‘guna’ and ‘karma’ are not fixed by birth, caste too should not be assigned based on heredity
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Subjecting constitutional changes approved by Parliament to a mandatory public referendum should be the wayte
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Wasteland was what home was not but is creeping in now with impossible pollution levels and progressive desertification
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The power behind the throne in the republic is the appointed institutions and it must be exercised in “public interest”
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Shifting responsibility for failure of governance to the political class on the specious plea that they lack autonomy is wrong
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Reservations need to be understood and interpreted as a means to enable social justice to historically marginalised communities
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Civic disengagement is a fertile ground for popular leaders to exercise absolute power and could lead to despotism
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Courts need to balance the right to privacy of the deceased’s family and freedom of expression of moviemakers
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The sensor realist mode both relies on and exceeds the military technology geared towards dehumanisation
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Strong regional parties are more conducive for the consolidation and progress of the new States
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It is the right opportunity for Chief Minister KCR to exercise his constitutional powers and make farmer-friendly laws
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The Constitution has enshrined reservations in Articles 15 and 16, and any government policy has to be within its framework
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It is obnoxious that the Central government is treating agriculture as trade
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Disenfranchise all crime-tainted and tax evaders to make democracy a shining example for religions to reform
