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The writer, an author, former diplomat and is in politics.

Pavan K. Varma | After A Year Of Confusion, India Faces Hard Decisions

Pavan K. Varma | After A Year Of Confusion, India Faces Hard Decisions

The way in which the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise was carried out in Bihar, and now in the whole country,...

3 Jan 2026 11:22 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Clean Air Not A Luxury, Why Govt Not Effecting Solution?

Pavan K. Varma | Clean Air Not A Luxury, Why Govt Not Effecting...

When the Air Quality Index (AQI) regularly breaches ‘severe’ and ‘hazardous’ categories exceeding 450 — levels that...

21 Dec 2025 12:25 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Amend Law For EC That Can Defend Democracy

Pavan K. Varma | Amend Law For EC That Can Defend Democracy

In its original incarnation — from 1950 until the late 1980s — the ECI was a single-member body, led only by a Chief...

7 Dec 2025 12:50 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | If Cong Doesn’t Transform, New Alternative Inevitable

Pavan K. Varma | If Cong Doesn’t Transform, New Alternative Inevitable

Has the Congress withered away? The question arises with every successive electoral setback. The idea of the Congress is...

22 Nov 2025 11:29 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Only Voters Can Purge Indian Politics of Crime

Pavan K. Varma | Only Voters Can Purge Indian Politics of Crime

A man who controls the local police, the legal system, development contracts, exerts patronage, collects rents, and...

9 Nov 2025 12:31 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | NDA United, But Is Nitish Playing His Last Innings?

Pavan K. Varma | NDA United, But Is Nitish Playing His Last Innings?

The conspiracy, to my mind, was unethical, unnecessary, and dangerous. One consequence was that the RJD’s seats were...

25 Oct 2025 11:56 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Will Nitish’s Last-minute Largesse Pay or Backfire?

Pavan K. Varma | Will Nitish’s Last-minute Largesse Pay or Backfire?

It may not be contrary to the letter of the law, but it is brazenly against its spirit

11 Oct 2025 9:54 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | India’s Democracy No Match To Nepalese Fragile Governance

Pavan K. Varma | India’s Democracy No Match To Nepalese Fragile...

In recent years, Indian public discourse has been increasingly hijacked by a troubling binary: Either one is an...

28 Sept 2025 12:03 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | For BJP & Opp, Abuse Is Ruse To Avoid Issue-based Politics

Pavan K. Varma | For BJP & Opp, Abuse Is Ruse To Avoid Issue-based...

Memories in Bihar of the RJD’s ‘jungle raj’ (1990-2005), when law and order and rectitude were jettisoned on the altar...

13 Sept 2025 9:47 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too Late?

Pavan K. Varma | PM’s Ghuspetiya Outrage: Isn’t It Too Little, Too...

The Election Commission of India (EC) made a general statement that there are “large numbers of people from Nepal,...

30 Aug 2025 9:39 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | SIR A Massive Fraud By EC Against India’s Poor

Pavan K. Varma | SIR A Massive Fraud By EC Against India’s Poor

But for the vast numbers of the deprived and underprivileged, the perspective is radically different. For them,...

2 Aug 2025 10:36 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | As Bihar Heads For Polls, Honour Syncretic Culture

Pavan K. Varma | As Bihar Heads For Polls, Honour Syncretic Culture

It is a fact that cynical politicians use ordinary Indians as puppets to reinforce religion-based vote banks. People...

19 July 2025 11:52 PM IST