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BJP National President Amit Shah performs seva at Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib on the occasion of 350th Prakash Utsav of Guru Gobind Singh at Chandni Chowk, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

A festival that lit up hearts

The Prakash Utsav was an illustration of the organic link between ideology, conviction and governance.

15 Jan 2017 1:32 AM IST

Parliament House (Photo: PTI)

Mission 2017: A happy, healthy, clean India...

After two successive drought years, let the New Year focus on the well being of our farmers.

1 Jan 2017 3:18 AM IST

The Telangana state government has expedited measures to switch to cashless economy following demonetisation

Chanakya's View: Cashless economy - A recipe for disaster

A cashless' society could not or should not have been the primary aim of the government.

18 Dec 2016 12:48 AM IST

Prime MInister Narendra Modi laughes during debate in Rajya Sabha (Photo: Videograb)

Chanakya's View: Disruptive House - BJP has only itself to blame

The debate began in the Rajya Sabha in the expectation that the Prime Minister would join.

4 Dec 2016 12:38 AM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. (Photo: PTI)

Chanakya's View: Intent needs planning

Mr Kumar's call to attack benami properties must get a credible response from the government.

20 Nov 2016 12:59 AM IST

Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, and the members of the Constituent Assembly, sought to draft our Constitution with the express purpose of creating the right balance between the three fundamental pillars of governance

Chanakya's View: The warning signs

An apolitical bureaucracy and civil service, and a free and independent judiciary, were the key features of the...

6 Nov 2016 6:34 AM IST

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said her ministry will give 50 percent subsidy to those willing to add food processing service to the cold chain, while 35 percent subsidy those who will only set up cold chain for storage and use cold chain vehicles to transport materials to food processing units. (Photo: PTI)

BJP: The Mandir card won't fetch votes

The BJP did profit from the Ram Mandir agitation in the early 1990s but not for too long.

23 Oct 2016 1:57 AM IST

Top defence experts on Thursday termed the surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC in PoK as an operational necessity. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Chanakya's View: Surgical strikes - End the cacophony

The politics on the surgical strikes must stop.

9 Oct 2016 12:39 AM IST

Army personnel take positions and move towards the site where militants were hiding during an encounter at Lachipora in Uri Sector of Kashmir on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Chanakya's View: Pak policy - Opposition has the right to ask

A second major response must be to isolate Pakistan on the international stage as a terrorist state.

25 Sept 2016 12:59 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti in a meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Chanakya's View: BJP, PDP - Partners with cross purposes

Cross-border infiltration is growing, and will increase during winter.

11 Sept 2016 12:28 AM IST

Perumal Murugan

Chanakya's View: Murugan, the writer, is alive again

Hindutva fringe groups may think that they are omnipotent today.

28 Aug 2016 1:10 AM IST

Members of Jammu and Kashmir Youth Ulema shout slogans to protest killings and demands for an end to the use of pellet guns in Srinagar on Thursday. (Photo: PTI )

Chanakya's View: J&K - Focus delayed is opportunity denied

The crisis in J&K has complex origins and no simple solutions.

14 Aug 2016 3:49 AM IST