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When future's in the past

Sunanda K Datta-Ray discusses the double standards that pervade the Indian political establishment's embrace of unproven scientific nationalism

Best of BS Opinion: Central Vista project, Covid-19 crisis, and more

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Floating bodies, sinking states

Politics and economics are at the heart of the Covid tragedy in UP and Bihar. The misery is a result of voting in the name of religion, caste and nationalism

Hindutva: A word of suspense

The ideology that forms the basis of BJP's sociopolitical initiatives is not an ideology at all

Heights of nationalism

Book review of The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans and the Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas

Best of BS Opinion: Backsliding without broadband, Covid-19 vaccine & more

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The angry Vishwaguru

The world has expectations from India and complains when those aren't met. If global praise is acceptable to Modi govt, why the resentment and rejection over criticism?

Authoritarianism and nationalism are on the rise around the world: Blinken

US Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Wednesday said authoritarianism and nationalism are on the rise around the world with governments becoming less transparent and losing the people's trust. In a major foreign policy speech after becoming the top American diplomat, Blinken said the latest report 'Freedom in the World 2021' by Freedom House is "sobering". The report, which is an annual country-by-country assessment of political rights and civil liberties, downgraded the freedom scores of 73 countries, representing 75 per cent of the global population. Democracy has eroded in the United States as well, the report noted. While still considered 'free', the United States experienced further democratic decline during the final year of the Trump presidency, it said. The US score in 'Freedom in the World' has dropped by 11 points over the past decade, and fell by three points in 2020 alone. The changes have moved the country out of a cohort that included other leading democracies, suc

Shekhar Gupta: Two fronts, one challenge

India must break out of the strategic triangulation between China and Pakistan. Before that, it has to decide if it will allow domestic electoral interests limit its strategic options

Space nationalism

There is an ongoing space race between global powers, also driven by nationalism (and military necessities) despite multi-national collaborations

Agricultural reforms, farmers' agitation, and the power of narrative

A group of people holding an elected govt to ransom and a govt turning against its own citizens in the name of law and order are both instinctively troubling in a democracy, writes T N Ninan

Thriving in uber-uncertainty

Book review of Beyond Great: Nine Strategies for Thriving in an Era of Social Tension, Economic Nationalism and Technological Revolution

Nationalism will drive global alliances in 2021

The era of tech nationalism launched with India banning Chinese tech platforms and telecom equipment

Best of BS Opinion: Covid-19 vaccine, promise of techno-nationalism & more

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The promise of techno-nationalism

Techno-nationalism sees nation states using their superiority in specific technologies rise up the global hierarchy and dominate other nations

BJP files complaint against Digvijaya Singh for posting 'Traitor rate card' on social media

Bharatiya Janata Party has filed a complaint against Congress Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh with Bhopal Crime Branch after the latter posted a 'traitor rate card' on his social media account

The Minority Conundrum: Thought-provoking essays on minority rights

A thought-provoking set of essays examines minority rights in the light of secularism and nationalism, both of which are foundational to the vision of the Indian republic, says Chintan Girish Modi

Why globalisation is passe

Rising nationalism and a retreat from global alliances signal a restructuring of the geopolitical order

Harmonic nationalism

For Gandhi, music created spiritual and ethical publics

Nationhood can't be built on charity alone

We can't afford the perception of a righteous judge being punished because he inconveniently refuses to act as guardian of a Hindu Rashtra