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Jawed Naqvi
About the AuthorJawed Naqvi
The writer is Dawn�??s correspondent in New Delhi
    In a world overloaded with rites and traditions, Nanaks followers have spawned a rainbow of eclectic heroes that few other religions can match. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Few faiths can match Sikhism’s vivid rainbow of eclectic heroes

    Sikhs who have endeared themselves to Nanak’s world of fraternity include excellent men and women.

    13 Nov 2019 4:16 AM IST

    Doubts and dilemmas of the soldier in post-colonial South Asian democraciesOpinion
    Doubts and dilemmas of the soldier in post-colonial South Asian...

    The RSS had become the spine of his movement, feigning as it did its transient passion for India’s secular and...

    23 Oct 2019 4:38 AM IST

    From Wuhan to Chennai: Reading the tea leaves...Opinion
    From Wuhan to Chennai: Reading the tea leaves...

    It is not quite clear why Chennai was chosen as a venue for the informal summit between Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi on...

    16 Oct 2019 7:30 AM IST

    Given the BJP’s inverse Midas touch, should Trump worry?Opinion
    Given the BJP’s inverse Midas touch, should Trump worry?

    Something worse is brewing for Mr Modi’s Kashmir policy.

    26 Sept 2019 2:10 AM IST

    Can Congress follow Indira’s ’69 plan to revitalise itself?Opinion
    Can Congress follow Indira’s ’69 plan to revitalise itself?

    Sonia Gandhi has at last called for agitational politics all the way to the villages and small towns.

    18 Sept 2019 7:50 AM IST

    Its allies don’t care for Kashmir, so Pak needs to reinvent its strategyOpinion
    Its allies don’t care for Kashmir, so Pak needs to reinvent its...

    It is time that Pakistan rediscovers its original civilisational bearings that were more inclusive than the...

    11 Sept 2019 8:01 AM IST

    Romila Thapar and JNU: Can India’s Left go to the rescue?Opinion
    Romila Thapar and JNU: Can India’s Left go to the rescue?

    Thapar is not expected to yield an inch; she and her fellow scholars have endured the growing intellectual intolerance...

    4 Sept 2019 7:43 AM IST

    The revenge of Sukhi Lala: Cong revival hope lives onOpinion
    The revenge of Sukhi Lala: Cong revival hope lives on

    Dilip Kumar’s Ganga and Sunil Dutt’s Birju would be jailed or killed in India today as Maoists.

    28 Aug 2019 7:51 AM IST

    Can Donald Trump be trusted as neutral umpire on Kashmir?Opinion
    Can Donald Trump be trusted as neutral umpire on Kashmir?

    Some do seem to have figured out Donald Trump, and American Democrats are not among them.

    31 July 2019 2:11 AM IST

    Quest for moon rooted in politics that threatens earthOpinion
    Quest for moon rooted in politics that threatens earth

    The Apollo 11 anniversary came less than a week before India’s launch of a second unmanned vehicle to the moon.

    24 July 2019 4:42 AM IST

    Link between cricket and nation was neither natural nor inevitableOpinion
    Link between cricket and nation was neither natural nor inevitable

    And why forget that even the West Indies inducted a white player in the squad against New Zealand in the 1970s.

    17 July 2019 12:19 AM IST

    Can Team India win it like Megan Rapinoe?Opinion
    Can Team India win it like Megan Rapinoe?

    The first sortie during the Pakistan-Afghanistan match drew attention to a bloody dissent in Balochistan, which Pakistan...

    10 July 2019 1:32 AM IST

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