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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi wields the broom during a surprise visit to the Mandir Marg Police Station after launch of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in New Delhi on Thursday. The nationwide campaign aims to clean up India in five years. (Photo: PTI)

Chanakya's View: Swachchh Bharat - A mere slogan

Launched with great fanfare in 2014, it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship programme to make India a cleaner...

15 July 2018 12:36 AM IST

The Indian Army had last month made its first-ever military intervention of sorts on behalf of Bhutan by physically blocking Chinese troops from constructing a road in the Bhutanese Doklam area border territory near Indian border defences. (Representational image) .

Chanakya's View: Hyper nationalism can't secure our borders

To ask the right questions, even about national security, is the job of the political Opposition.

1 July 2018 12:31 AM IST

The family of Akhlaq, who was beaten to death by a mob, at Bishada. (Photo: PTI)

Chanakya's View: Has vigilantism become a norm in our country?

The fact of the matter is the requisite political will is lacking.

17 Jun 2018 6:17 AM IST

RLDs Tabassum Hasan after winning the Kairana Lok Sabha by-election in Kairana on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Chanakya's View: 2019 - Greater challenge lies before the Opp

2019 is fast emerging as a watershed year in the evolution of Indian politics.

3 Jun 2018 1:12 AM IST

Chanakya's View: SC must set clear rules to ensure ethical polity

The BJP did well in the Karnataka elections, but not well enough.

20 May 2018 12:51 AM IST

Aligarh Muslim University (Photo: PTI)

Chanakya's View: Alienating in the name of Hinduism

Whether AMU should have a portrait of Jinnah can be debated without unnecessarily glorifying the founder of Pakistan.

6 May 2018 12:59 AM IST

Addressing the Indian diaspora in London, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the Army and said the soldiers executed the surgical strikes with perfection. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Chanakya's View: Politics must not trump national interest

Mature democracies run as much by the letter of the law, as they do by the spirit of national interest.

22 April 2018 7:25 AM IST

Deendayal Upadhyay

Chanakya's View: Don't idolise Deendayal, follow his humanism

Upadhyayji sought to articulate an ideology that is first and foremost rooted in our own civilisational ethos.

8 April 2018 7:27 AM IST

Opposition members protest during the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament at the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Chanakya's View: Non-functioning of Parliament must stop

The current leg of the Budget Session is for 23 days, of which 14 have so far been wasted.

25 March 2018 12:39 AM IST

The Dalai Lama has been in India for the past 60 years.

Chanakya's View: Why is Delhi so eager to kowtow to Beijing?

India has reiterated to Chinese that we recognise Tibet as a part of China, and that His Holiness will refrain from any...

11 March 2018 2:22 AM IST

The latest case in this saga of hurt is the song of Priya Prakash Varrier.

Chanakya's View: Are we turning into a republic of hurt?

Anyone and everyone has assumed that they have the right to be hurt about what anyone or everyone is doing!

25 Feb 2018 3:33 AM IST

Finance minister Arun Jaitley

Chanakya's View: Well done, Mr Jaitley! At least you tried

Arun Jaitley has presented this government's last substantial Budget before the next general elections in 2019.

11 Feb 2018 3:28 AM IST