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Anil Dharker
About the AuthorAnil Dharker
Anil Dharker is a senior columnist based in Mumbai.
    The ‘rights industry’Opinion
    The ‘rights industry’

    Sambit Patra, the voluble Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman, in a recent newspaper article refers to “the human...

    10 Aug 2015 5:17 AM

    A skewed social agendaOpinion
    A skewed social agenda

    The Modi government is coming down hard on non-governmental organisations, ostensibly because they are “indulging...

    13 July 2015 6:17 AM

    Signs of Emergency?Opinion
    Signs of Emergency?

    Can we have another Emergency? This is the question uppermost in the minds of very many people. These “very...

    29 Jun 2015 5:57 AM

    Licence to killOpinion
    Licence to kill

    Janhavi Gadkar is now more famous than any lawyer of her age. That it’s the kind of fame nobody wants is entirely...

    15 Jun 2015 3:49 AM

    Modi’s innings: From T20 to a Test matchOpinion
    Modi’s innings: From T20 to a Test match

    As Narendra Modi completes his first year in office, the Indian Premier League is drawing to a close. There is no real...

    18 May 2015 4:51 AM

    Disaster Plan 2034Opinion
    Disaster Plan 2034

    I took part in a television debate on the day the Development Plan 2014 to 2034 was scrapped by Maharashtra chief...

    4 May 2015 8:27 AM

    A wake-up call for the judiciaryOpinion
    A wake-up call for the judiciary

    When people compare India and China, they say, “China may be easier to do business in, but when it comes to...

    23 Feb 2015 6:07 AM

    Misplaced priorities, sense of humourOpinion
    Misplaced priorities, sense of humour

    “Kuch ladkiyon ki bhi galti hoti hai. Dosti karne se pehle unko sochna chahiye.”This little homily —...

    8 Feb 2015 6:20 AM

    Cautious optimismOpinion
    Cautious optimism

    China’s growth was fuelled by overseas Chinese. This is why PM Modi is reaching out to NRIs

    29 Dec 2014 7:16 AM

    Modi should step inOpinion
    Modi should step in

    There was the “forced” conversion of 57 Muslims in Uttar Pradesh by Hindutva groups

    15 Dec 2014 5:50 AM

    Nehru & idea of IndiaOpinion
    Nehru & idea of India

    If Jawaharlal Nehru had wanted, he could easily have assumed dictatorial powers

    17 Nov 2014 7:33 AM

    Aai shapath: I will be Modi’s man in MumbaiOpinion
    Aai shapath: I will be Modi’s man in Mumbai

    As I write this at 4 pm on Sunday, election results and projections keep coming in. While the results on each channel...

    20 Oct 2014 2:35 AM

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