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Shiv Visvanathan
Shiv Visvanathan is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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Opinion: Why can’t India take a joke anymore?
Today, laughter has become anti-Indian and anti-national.
Shiv Visvanathan
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Gujarat bishop’s plea to save India from nationalist forces is an act of citizenship we must support
The Election Commission has asked Thomas Macwan to explain his letter calling for prayers for the victory of ‘humane leaders faithful to the Constitution’.
Shiv Visvanathan
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Proposal to remove M from AMU, H from BHU shows that India doesn’t really understand secularism
Merely renaming Banaras Hindu University and Aligarh Muslim University won’t reform these institutions.
Shiv Visvanathan
Trending
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Once the arena of creative ideological battles, the politics of survival now blights Tamil Nadu
The lack of creativity displayed by its current crop of politicians could well open the door for the BJP’s entry into the southern state.
Shiv Visvanathan
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Question for the BJP’s Ram Madhav: How Indian are his party’s ideas of nationalism and development?
In a recent op-ed, the BJP spokesperson argued that for the first time after independence, the dominant idea of India was rooted in India’s genius.
Shiv Visvanathan
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Opinion: Is Modi the Mahmud Ghazni of the Nehruvian nation state?
Modi realised only when Nehru as a paradigm and exemplar of nation building was erased, could his era begin.
Shiv Visvanathan
Video
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Watch: Comedian sings Ed Sheeran song in the style of artists ranging from Sonu Nigam to Kumar Sanu
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Watch: Woman holds abdominal plank position for over four and half hours
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Watch: Kuno National Park posts video to celebrate cheetah cub Mukhi’s first birthday
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Watch: Migrant workers travel in train toilet owing to unavailability of seats
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Shiv Visvanathan: Four ways I was wrong about Narendra Modi three years ago
The Indian prime minister has contempt for intellectuals because they got him wrong. They did.
Shiv Visvanathan
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From human being to 'human shield': The tragic (and fragmented) story of Citizen Farooq Dar
The sadness of Kashmir politics from Abdullahs to the army is that it has created a democracy as an empty forum without values.
Shiv Visvanathan
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Yogi Adityanath and Ramdev are the new BJP model of development-plus
The Modi-Adityanath-Shah syndrome needs to be confronted ethically, aesthetically, conceptually.
Shiv Visvanathan
The Reel
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‘Patna Shuklla’ review: A competently argued legal drama
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‘Inspector Rishi’ review: A superbly crafted battle between fact and fable
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‘Alibaba Aani Chalishitle Chor’ review: A lightweight study of modern marriage
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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Elections 2017: It is time to write an obituary for ideals like socialism, secularism and justice
The power of the BJP as a party lay not in creating a new universe of concepts but in undermining the old ideals.
Shiv Visvanathan
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Making sense of Ramjas violence: When Left snobbery met Right populism
The campus has become a site for a civil war of interests rather than a battleground of ideas.
Shiv Visvanathan
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It is fitting that Gandhi's assassination is being used to widen the democratic imagination
The information commissioner's ruling to make public Nathuram Godse's statement could not have come at a better time.
Shiv Visvanathan
The Field
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Tennis, Miami Masters: Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden through to the final
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Badminton, Spain Masters Super 300: Crasto-Ponnappa, Sindhu move into quarter-finals in Madrid
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IPL 2024: Riyan Parag, bowlers set up win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals
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IPL 2024: KKR bring in Allah Ghazanfar as replacement player; RR rope in Keshav Maharaj
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Athletics: Neeraj Chopra to open his 2024 season at Doha Diamond League in May