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Vidya Subrahmaniam

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Vidya Subrahmaniam  was Senior Fellow with The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy. She was until 2014 Associate Editor with  The Hindu  based in New Delhi. In a journalistic career spanning four decades, she has written and reported extensively in a number of newspapers in Chennai, Mumbai, Lucknow and Delhi. She has also served on the national news bureaus of  The Indian Express ,  The Indian Post ,  The Independent ,  The Statesman , and was an opinion page writer for  The Times of India . In 2013, she won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism in the category, 'Commentary and Interpretative Writing'.

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Fatal, not Funny: Nationalist Outrage & Journalists against Journalists

India’s dyed-in-the wool ‘nationalist’ TV channels have made it clear that even as they rage against Pakistan, they will also hunt down anyone defying

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The Making of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

An act of magnanimity by his long-time associate, Lal Krishna Advani, set Atal Bihari Vajpayee on a journey of accomplishment that he had been convinc

The Babri Masjid Demolition Case: The Will to Delay and Deflect

On December 6, 1992 a frenzied mob of kar sevaks pulled down the Babri Masjid in the presence of Lal Krishna Advani and other top Sangh Parivar leade

You can't posit Ram against Lakshmi to those without jobs: Pavan K. Varma

Pawan K. Varma, the national spokesperson of the Janata Dal (United), and until recently advisor to the Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar,

Opposition: Shooting in the Dark

Renewed efforts are on to unite the Indian Opposition against the ruling dispensation led by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. But the Opposition is up aga

Caste alliance is not the bedrock of our philosophy: Sachin Pilot

Congress party chief in Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot, makes out a litany of charges against the incumbent Vasundhara Raje Government, accusing it, a