Legal Deadlines, Political Lifelines: Reading the Tamil Nadu Bills Verdict
War is too important to be left to the generals — that statement is attributed to French statesman Georges Clemenceau.
TK Arun
TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
When National Unity Trumps Hindutva: Lessons from Operation Sindoor
The choice of a Muslim officer and a Hindu officer to brief the world on India’s attack on terror infrastructure in Pakistan was an admission that the politics of Hindutva is not fit to be displayed before the world.
Pahalgam Aftermath: Why Strategic Restraint Is India’s Strongest Response
Retaliation is easy, Restraint is better. The terrorists who killed 26 innocent tourists in Pahalgam hoped to destabilise and reverse the return to normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of successful elections and movement towards the restoration of statehood for the territory.
Caste Census: The End of Identity Politics or Just the Beginning?
If a national count starkly demonstrates that powerful chieftains of social groups are no guarantee for their base’s economic empowerment, these netas’ political influence may go down.
Terror in Kashmir, Global turmoil: A week of instability
Death and perfidy cast their dark shadow over the week in review. Terrorists gunned down 26 tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s idyllic Pahalgam, and injured several more. In a move designed to inflame communal passions in India’s already febrile polity, the terrorists first checked if their victims were Muslims or not, before shooting them dead.
Exaggerated alarm over India’s trade imbalance with China
TK ARUN What matters in a country’s international commercial transactions is the current account balance, not trade surpluses or deficits with individual countries. Tempers are running high in sections of the media over the rise in India’s trade deficit with…