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Ashwani Kumar
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The writer is a Congress leader and former Union law minister. The views expressed here are personal.
    A legal giant who kept the flame of liberty aliveNation
    A legal giant who kept the flame of liberty alive

    His sterling qualities of head and heart earned him the respect of not only his close colleagues but of all those who...

    21 Feb 2024 8:42 AM

    People offer flowers to late former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at Zojoji Temple in Tokyo on July 11, 2022. (AFP Photo)Opinion
    Ashwani Kumar | Farewell, Abe San: Salute to a real friend of India

    The outrageous crime underscores the reality of a world torn by countless conflicts and faltering in its quest for a...

    11 July 2022 6:10 PM

    Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)Opinion
    Ashwani Kumar | Putin’s war strikes at world order, exposes UN’s...

    Moscow has placed its nuclear forces on alert, in an ominous signal of a possibly prolonged confrontation

    2 March 2022 7:49 PM

    News.Opinion
    Ashwani Kumar | Rescuing a democracy in retreat

    An unspeakable tragedy in Lakhimpur Kheri has wounded the nation's sensibility to its very core

    7 Oct 2021 7:45 PM

    News.Opinion
    Ashwani Kumar | It's now time to reclaim the moral centre of the...

    The erosion of a nurtured culture of tolerant coexistence questions our democratic resilience

    16 Sept 2021 8:14 PM

    Relatives mourn as they arrive for the cremation of their loved one who died due to the Covid-19 coronavirus, at a crematorium in New Delhi on May 11, 2021. (AFP)Opinion
    Ashwani Kumar | Amid grief as Covid surges, India needs divine mercy!

    Wailing mothers, grieving children and the helplessness of marginalised people mock our politics

    12 May 2021 6:30 PM

    Indian Parliament (Image credit : Wikipedia)Opinion
    Ashwani Kumar | Reassert ‘core’ values & halt democracy’s decay

    As the highest forum of democracy, Parliament too cannot escape its share of responsibility for our faltering record on...

    9 Jan 2021 1:48 AM

    Supreme Court of India (PTI)Opinion
    Ashwani Kumar | Ensuring dignity for all, respect for the law, still a...

    Questions about the Supreme Court’s vacillation and seeming incapacity to enforce its judgments, have diminished...

    28 Oct 2020 4:04 AM

    Modi’s audacity of hope: Can he win over J&K?Opinion
    Modi’s audacity of hope: Can he win over J&K?

    History alone will pronounce whether the audacious move was before its time or represents an idea whose time has come.

    14 Aug 2019 8:20 PM

    Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi address a political rally in Gujarat. (Photo: Twitter | @INCIndia)Opinion
    Rahul may bring in transformative changes in Congress

    He should become the interlocutor to awaken the nation's will and take the lead to accomplish it.

    7 Dec 2017 9:18 PM

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