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

    A lone worker surveys an empty market street in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. (DC Photo: Tejo Roy)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma: Who're you? A passport Indian or a ration card Indian?...

    In this crisis, those who have the wrong card are unlikely to forget or forgive this experience

    20 April 2020 7:19 PM IST

    This image posted on prime minister Narendra Modis Twitter account shows him lighting an oil lamp to mark the countrys fight against the Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday, April 5, 2020.(AP/Twitter)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma: Why didn't the PM focus on steps to help the needy?

    It is sobering to remember that many migrant workers were not at home to light a lamp

    6 April 2020 1:35 PM IST

    The Shaheen Bagh protest. (PTI)Opinion
    Chanakya’s View: Shaheen Bagh should see the big picture

    Leaders of religious communities must come forward and take the right decision given the circumstances prevailing

    22 March 2020 7:58 PM IST

    An Aam Aadmi Party worker, dressed as party chief Arvind Kejriwal, celebrates along with others the partys success in the Delhi Assembly polls, at party headquarters in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Delhi polls a defeat for BJP’s polarisation

    It must also be borne in mind that the BJP did not fight this election as though it was a routine state election.

    23 Feb 2020 4:14 AM IST

    The protesters at Shaheen Bagh against the CAA-NRC divisive scheme were deliberately labelled as traitors and terrorists.Opinion
    In lack of alternative, BJP’s hate festers

    The election results will show whether such a strategy will bring dividends to the party.

    9 Feb 2020 5:46 AM IST

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