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#OPINION | Religious intolerance and the challenge of pluralism

Why is religion, which supposedly espouses compassion, peace, and harmony, often the cause of intolerance? Usually, it is because of the attempts to claim political space and hence the failure of leaders to work with the ‘internal policers’.

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#OPINION | Does the Shirdi Sai Baba fit into 'new India'?

When the azaan vs Hanuman Chalisa controversy was taking place in Maharashtra last month, the Sai Baba shrine in Shirdi decided to follow the Supreme Court guidelines given in a 2005 verdict that public address systems could only be used between 6 am and 10 pm.
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#OPINION | BBMP elections: Will Bengaluru get a better deal?

With the Supreme Court cracking the whip against state governments and ordering that all pending local body elections should be scheduled within two weeks, the state government has had to buckle down and put an end to its arbitrary and impudent procrastination of BBMP elections since September 2020 in violation of the Constitution.
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#OPINION | Indian business today needs leaders like Keshub Mahindra

Keshub Mahindra was part of a glittering list of business leaders who were born before/around Independence. These leaders witnessed and were crucial partners in building India post-Independence.

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#OPINION | King Charles’ portrait is artful propaganda

The arguing is beside the point because royal portraiture’s role through the millennia is to project power and legitimacy; thus, disputes about an artifact’s artistic merit are secondary to its propaganda value.

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