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Pavan K Varma
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The writer, an author, former diplomat and is in politics.
    BJP supporters celebrate as early trends show the partys win in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls, at the party office in Lucknow. (Representational Image: PTI)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma | Muslims in BJP have an express duty: Stem hate

    Do the luminaries in the BJP from the Muslim community speak out against the malicious denigration of their faith

    18 Oct 2020 9:37 AM IST

    A television jourmalist interviews the mother (2L) of the 19-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by four men, outside the family house at Bool Garhi village in Hathras in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. AP PhotoOpinion
    Pavan K Varma | Napping media awakes, puts Yogi Adityanath on the spot

    Thanks to the media, most of them brave young women, the entire nation was sickened by the pitiless and high-handed...

    4 Oct 2020 6:28 PM IST

    A videograb of of prime minister Narendra Modi speaking in Parliament. (Lok Sabha TV)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma | A Parliament without questions is no democracy

    The decision to do away with Question Hour indicates that the government has no answers

    6 Sept 2020 5:59 PM IST

    Supreme Court of India (PTI)Opinion
    Pavan K. Varma | Contempt, sedition: We need a more open mind

    It is also rather confusing what amounts to contempt

    23 Aug 2020 8:21 PM IST

    A sadhu celebrates the ground breaking ceremony for proposed Ram Temple in Ayodhya. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Pavan K. Varma | Will ‘Ram Rajya’ lead to a more tolerant India?

    ecularism in our country is not about the absolute separation of the State and faith

    10 Aug 2020 4:31 PM IST

    Pavan K. Varma | Support the arts during pandemic, keep India’s culture aliveOpinion
    Pavan K. Varma | Support the arts during pandemic, keep India’s...

    Governments, which are responsible for the support and nurturing of artistes, have always treated culture as a priority...

    27 July 2020 12:31 AM IST

    Representational imagr (AFP)Opinion
    Pavan K. Varma | To take on China, India needs strategic clarity

    Chanakyan politics should have made us understand long ago that China’s ambitions to emerge as a world power

    13 July 2020 7:17 PM IST

    Both parties, prisoners of the predictable, continue to viciously kick each other in the shin even as the Chinese kick us on the border. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Pavan K. Varma | Why can’t Indians unite in face of China threat?

    The government must come clean on what the position on the Line of Actual Control is

    29 Jun 2020 4:57 PM IST

    Union home minister, Amit Shah (PTI)Opinion
    Pavan K. Varma | Amid corona crisis, it’s politics as usual for BJP

    Union home minister and former party president Amit Shah held a “virtual” rally in Bihar

    15 Jun 2020 6:41 PM IST

    Representational image (AFP)Opinion
    Pavan K.Varma | Prophets of doom'? We all ignored India's poor

    Court has finally intervened on behalf of the well-being of migrant workers

    31 May 2020 8:56 PM IST

    Workers rest under a truck on NH-60 near Illambazar while waiting to travel back to their native places in Jharkhand, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Birbhum district. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Pavan Varma: Will Covid-19 make us a more caring society?

    If the government did not anticipate such a consequence, then it must be accused of unpardonable incompetence

    19 May 2020 5:28 PM IST

    Representational image (PTI)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma: Red, green & orange: A colour-coded muddle?

    It is clear that in spite of the best efforts of the government, social distancing in this operation will be compromised

    5 May 2020 7:34 PM IST

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