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The writer, an author, former diplomat and is in politics.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Photo: AP/File)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma | Politics didn’t limit the enigma that was Atalji

    The poet in him told him that all this was passing, a shadow play, a fleeting moment in the grand canvas of time

    27 Dec 2020 7:02 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Pavan K. Varma | Ground reality darkens PM ‘vista’ of democracy

    Once again, it is evidence of the current government deciding unilaterally and then implementing it without...

    12 Dec 2020 11:02 PM IST

    Farmers who came from Punjab and Haryana to protest against the new Farmers Law reached at Burari ground raising slogans to withdraw the anti-farmers law, in New Delhi on Saturday, 28 Nov 2020. (DC Image: D Kamraj)Opinion
    Pavan K. Varma | At best, farm laws pass reform buck to big biz

    The question is not that agricultural commerce needs to be opened up, but what is going to replace it

    29 Nov 2020 9:53 AM IST

    Supreme Court of India (PTI)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma | Will apex court protect liberty for all citizens?

    The administering of justice should never be selective, or so lacking in humanity that it revolts the human conscience

    16 Nov 2020 10:28 AM IST

    French gendarme cross Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France. (AP)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma | India must set example of pluralism, tolerance

    India’s civilisational history presents the best example of a plural society.

    1 Nov 2020 4:23 PM IST

    BJP supporters celebrate as early trends show the partys win in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls, at the party office in Lucknow. (Representational Image: PTI)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma | Muslims in BJP have an express duty: Stem hate

    Do the luminaries in the BJP from the Muslim community speak out against the malicious denigration of their faith

    18 Oct 2020 9:37 AM IST

    A television jourmalist interviews the mother (2L) of the 19-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by four men, outside the family house at Bool Garhi village in Hathras in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. AP PhotoOpinion
    Pavan K Varma | Napping media awakes, puts Yogi Adityanath on the spot

    Thanks to the media, most of them brave young women, the entire nation was sickened by the pitiless and high-handed...

    4 Oct 2020 6:28 PM IST

    A videograb of of prime minister Narendra Modi speaking in Parliament. (Lok Sabha TV)Opinion
    Pavan K Varma | A Parliament without questions is no democracy

    The decision to do away with Question Hour indicates that the government has no answers

    6 Sept 2020 5:59 PM IST

    Supreme Court of India (PTI)Opinion
    Pavan K. Varma | Contempt, sedition: We need a more open mind

    It is also rather confusing what amounts to contempt

    23 Aug 2020 8:21 PM IST

    A sadhu celebrates the ground breaking ceremony for proposed Ram Temple in Ayodhya. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Pavan K. Varma | Will ‘Ram Rajya’ lead to a more tolerant India?

    ecularism in our country is not about the absolute separation of the State and faith

    10 Aug 2020 4:31 PM IST

    Pavan K. Varma | Support the arts during pandemic, keep India’s culture aliveOpinion
    Pavan K. Varma | Support the arts during pandemic, keep India’s...

    Governments, which are responsible for the support and nurturing of artistes, have always treated culture as a priority...

    27 July 2020 12:31 AM IST

    Representational imagr (AFP)Opinion
    Pavan K. Varma | To take on China, India needs strategic clarity

    Chanakyan politics should have made us understand long ago that China’s ambitions to emerge as a world power

    13 July 2020 7:17 PM IST

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