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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 India was a ‘land of diamonds’, Russian tsars eagerly tried to build ties with Aurangzeb
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IPL 2022: For Jos Buttler, a strong foundation is leading to sky high success
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‘Anek’ review: Political thriller muddles its way through the North East
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IPL 2022, Qualifier 2, RR v RCB as it happened: RR reach final, fourth ton of the season for Buttler
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Does US have evidence of aliens visiting us on Earth?
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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
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Watch: Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle visits Uvalde, Texas to honour school shooting victims
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‘She was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong’: Father of student killed in Texas shooting
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Watch: Akila the temple elephant celebrates her twentieth birthday with a feast of fruits
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Watch: Nine-year-old boy discovers a puma in one of the toilet stalls at his school in Brazil
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Watch: Shikhar Dhawan mock-knocked out by father for not qualifying for IPL playoffs
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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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‘Anek’ review: Political thriller muddles its way through the North East
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ review: Flights of nostalgia
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‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Field of Dreams’ actor Ray Liotta dies at 67
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Watch: Partition, art and the idea of home in short film ‘The Miniaturist Of Junagadh’
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Watch: ‘The Gray Man’ stars Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Dhanush and Ana de Armas
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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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IPL 2022, Qualifier 2, RR v RCB as it happened: RR reach final, fourth ton of the season for Buttler
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Champions League final: The economic tactics that drive Liverpool and Real Madrid off the field
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Athletics: ‘Great feeling,’ says Sreeshankar after 8.31m jump for first international gold of season
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Watch: When grandson took his 84-year-old grandfather with dementia to Man City’s title-winning game
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Football: Gokulam Kerala defend Indian Women’s League title after beating Sethu FC 3-1 on final day