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Like the proverbial pigeon that closes its eyes and believes that the cat has gone, Adityanath thinks that if he closes his eyes all the miseries that people in his state are facing will disappear. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Reprieve, for now, from Yogi's victim-blaming

Yogi Adityanath, the saffron dhari CM of UP, believes that everything in his state is hunky-dory

2 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

The Modi government likes the label of a decisive government, but its actions are quite to the contrary. (Photo: AFP)

Pavan K. Varma | Second wave gives the lie to Modi's decisive' image

The second Covid wave has vividly shown the glaring gulf between image and delivery of the Modi Sarkar

17 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

If the BJP, now in power at the Centre, could run the vaccination programme as efficiently as it seeks to run elections, we could perhaps see light at the end of this dark tunnel. (Photo: AFP)

Pavan K Varma | If only BJP were as good at vaccination as it's at...

The government I am sure is doing its best, but its best falls short, I am sorry to say, of the optimum

4 April 2021 4:52 AM IST

We have new custodians of morality who are easily outraged by anything that does not fit into their conservative, upper-caste, patriarchal and outdated notions of correct behaviour. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan Varma | Let it rip! Stop us turning into the Republic of Hurt

A highly unwarranted subjectivity driven by medieval cultural notions and political hubris is threatening creative...

21 March 2021 4:00 AM IST

To call the worlds largest democracy only partly free is incontrovertible evidence of an attempt to subvert our sovereignty and integrity, an international conspiracy directed against the Indian state. (Photo: AFP)

Pavan Varma | Freedom, conspiracy and other anti-national sins

Frankly, in my view, Freedom House, the Washington based global democracy watchdog, should be booked by our...

7 March 2021 4:53 AM IST

It has been reported that stickers are put on the doors or entrances of those who have paid, thereby marking out those who have not. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Not much righteous about Ram temple funds drive

Fear and unlawful pressure cannot be a basis for religious or spiritual pursuits

21 Feb 2021 4:03 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Maligning the messenger pays diminishing returns

Pavan K. Varma | Maligning the messenger pays diminishing returns

Our government appears to be making the cardinal mistake of using the paranoia of the 'foreign hand' in today's world

7 Feb 2021 7:08 AM IST

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Pavan K. Varma | Resist new usurpers of Hinduâ€™s eternal legacy

Hindus have been used to being Hindus in a self-assured way without being told that there is a higher -'authority-' that...

24 Jan 2021 7:13 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Why J. Khanna dissented from Central Vista ruling

Pavan K. Varma | Why J. Khanna dissented from Central Vista ruling

Justice Sanjiv Khanna, in his dissenting judgment, used a very telling expression to describe the undemocratic opacity...

10 Jan 2021 7:13 AM IST

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Photo: AP/File)

Pavan K Varma | Politics didnâ€™t limit the enigma that was Atalji

The poet in him told him that all this was passing, a shadow play, a fleeting moment in the grand canvas of time

27 Dec 2020 7:02 AM IST

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Pavan K. Varma | Ground reality darkens PM â€˜vistaâ€™ of democracy

Once again, it is evidence of the current government deciding unilaterally and then implementing it without...

12 Dec 2020 11:02 PM IST

Farmers who came from Punjab and Haryana to protest against the new Farmers Law reached at Burari ground raising slogans to withdraw the anti-farmers law, in New Delhi on Saturday, 28 Nov 2020. (DC Image: D Kamraj)

Pavan K. Varma | At best, farm laws pass reform buck to big biz

The question is not that agricultural commerce needs to be opened up, but what is going to replace it

29 Nov 2020 9:53 AM IST