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Indian Sikh activists shout slogans in support of Khalistan, the name for an envisioned independent Sikh state at a demonstration outside the Indian High Commission in London on July 8, 2023. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Political Line | Global nationalists, national globalists

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DINDIGUL: TAMIL NADU: 07/08/2023: Model voting camp in electronic voting machines being held at the Collectorate in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, on Monday, 07 August 2023. Photo: Karthikeyan G/ The Hindu.

Political Line | Reversing democracy for stability

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Team effort: Sonia Gandhi, second from right, and other leaders at the second day of the joint Opposition meeting in Bengaluru. ANI ANI

Political Line | Chaos and coalitions

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Illustration: Deepak Harichandan

Political Line | A costly drive for unity

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New beginning: Oppostion leaders address a joint press conference after the all-party meeting in Patna. PTI -

Political Line | Signals from Patna

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Political Line | When Modi goes to Atmanirbhar America

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Political Line | The stories that make a nation

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Political Line | The happy and the unhappy after the Karnataka elections

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Political Line | The high command and ground realities

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Illustration for Delhi The Hindu

The Political Line | Hindutva vs Dravidian ideology on collective identity

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Life size cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

Political Line | Savarkar vs Gandhi; NAMO vs RAGA

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The BJP has announced candidates for all 13 constituencies in the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. file photo file photo

Political Line | Big Picture: BJP’s Gujarat model faces resistance in Karnataka

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Political Line | Contours of the Karnataka combat

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Political Line | Big Picture: Five vantage points of opposition to Narendra Modi

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New setback: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi leaving the Parliament building on Friday after his disqualification. AP

Political Line | Big Picture: There is nothing inevitable about opposition unity

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. | Photo Credit: ANI

Political Line | Indian battles, global fields

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Show of unity: M.K. Stalin with Tejashwi Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav, T.R. Baalu, Mallikarjuna Kharge, Duraimurugan, Farooq Abdullah and Ma. Subramanian at a meeting in Chennai on Wednesday. M. VEDHAN The Hindu

Political Line | Big Picture: Why a birthday celebration in Chennai was followed by fake news about attacks on Hindi speakers

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NEW DELHI, 02/03/2023: Prime Minister Narendra Modi being garlanded by BJP President J P Nadda and Union Minister Amit Shah during celebrations after the party's good performance in Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya Assembly polls, at the BJP HQ, in New Delhi on Thursday Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma / The Hindu

Political Line | Big Picture: Understanding interest groups

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Congress MP Mallikarjun Kharge at Parliament House complex.

Political Line | Big Picture: BJP vs Congress among subalterns

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People watch the BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question” screened by CITU at Petta Junction in Kochi.

Political Line | Modi will weather the storm

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Political Line | What is common between Uddhav Thackeray and Nitish Kumar?

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Political Line | Adani, BBC... many stories, one dilemma

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File illustration picture of a projection of binary code around the shadow of a man holding a laptop computer in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. An encrypted email service believed to have been used by American fugitive Edward Snowden shut down abruptly August 8, 2013, amid a legal fight that appeared to involve U.S. government attempts to win access to customer information. Lavabit LLC owner Ladar Levison said he has decided to 'suspend operations' but was barred from discussing the events over the past six weeks that led to his decision. That matches the period since Snowden went public as the source of media reports detailing secret electronic spying operations by the U.S. National Security Agency. The U.S. Department of Justice had no immediate comment. TO GO WITH STORY USA-SECURITY/SNOWDEN-EMAIL REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Files (POLAND - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Political Line | Public Debate on Privacy

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BJP candidate from Viramgam constituency Hardik Patel.

Political Line | Hardik, Alpesh, Dimple, Kedar: caste tales from Gujarat, U.P., Bihar

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker during the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, in Ujjain district, Thursday, December 1, 2022.

Political Line | Is this Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Quitting Politics’ yatra?

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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Political Line | The Prime Minister’s political messaging, border disputes, electioneering in Gujarat and more

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A view of the Supreme Court of India. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma / The Hindu

Political Line | SC views on conversions, Rajiv convicts and federalism, and more

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Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street.

Political Line | How India views the rise of Rishi Sunak, tale of two Governors and more

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Political Line | Godmen in and out of jail, the Bilkis Bano case, ‘narrative terrorism’ and more

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Congress senior leader Mallikarjun Kharge.

Political Line | Growing old as a politician, Kejriwal’s dilemmas, MBBS in Hindi and more

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AICC president Sonia Gandhi with her son Rahul Gandhi, MP, during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Mandya district, and (below) the former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah sprints with the Congress leader in Nagamangala.

Political Line | Sonia Gandhi’s shoelaces and a pen I dropped

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Political Line | The paradox of the Gandhi family fiat

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U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath greets Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary. SANDEEP SAXENA SANDEEP SAXENA

Political Line | Divisive politics, BJP tilt towards Jats, business moves and more

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U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participate in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity launch event at the Izumi Garden Gallery, Monday.

Political Line | India’s balancing act amid changing global winds

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Ground situation: Rahul Gandhi with party workers during the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Kanyakumari on Friday.

Political Line | Several yatris, and the chances of a political logjam

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A madrasa being demolished in Bongaigaon district, Assam, on August 31. File Photo

Political Line | The bulldozer goes global, three questions before the Gandhi family, and more

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Godhra: People convicted for rape and murder in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, come out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy.

Political Line | Caste, crime and corruption – what is the difference between Sisodia and Soren

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NEW DELHI, 02/09/2014: Indian National flag flutters high against a blue sky dotted with white clouds, hoisted at Central Park, Connaught Place, is the largest national flag of India, in New Delhi on September 02, 2014.
Photo: Meeta Ahlawat

Political Line | India@75: state of democracy, the freebie debate, new Kashmir voters and more

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Newly sworn-in President Droupadi Murmu with outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind in her office at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi.

Political Line | Presidential elections, BJP’s Muslim outreach, political films and more

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Political Line | Foreign hand, domestic rights in PMLA, FCRA judgments

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NEW DELHI,18/07/2022: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media persons on the first day monsoon session of Parliament, at Parliament House in Delhi on Monday, July 18, 2022. Photo: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR / The Hindu (For web page use)

Political Line | The debates around populism and welfare politics, secularism and religion, Centre and States relations and more

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New Delhi: Vehicles move slowly during a traffic jam at ITO in New Delhi, Monday, July 11, which marks World Population Day.

Political Line | The population debate, an emerging world order, the Dravidian-Aryan divide and more

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PM Narendra Modi addressing the concluding session of the BJP’s national executive meeting in Hyderabad.

Political Line | A tale of two tribal women; two CMs; and two cases of communal killings

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Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.

Political Line | Friends of BJP, Modi walk the tightrope at G7; GST struggling at 5 years

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Leaders of the BRICS nations during a video conference, in New Delhi, India.

Political Line | Modi at BRICS, a President from a Scheduled Tribe and more

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**EDS: HANDOUT PHOTO MADE AVAILABLE FROM RB OFFICE ON TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2022** New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurates a two-day conference of Vice-Chancellors of Central Universities and Directors of Institutions of National Importance, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)
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The limits of rewriting history, a presidential election, bulldozers and the law and more

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MANGALURU: Nupur Sharma, joint coordinator, BJP National Yuva Morcha addressing a press conference in Mangaluru on Feb. 29 By special arrangement.

Political Line | The Sheikhs have a say; counting people by district and caste; the happy Brahmins and the unhappy rest in Karnataka

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public function, at Paraunkh village in Kanpur.

Political Line | Technology and Hindutva; dog walkers and federalism; Nitish turns the tables on the BJP

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Political Line | War on English: turning aspirational politics on its head

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Political Line | India’s wheat export, Tamil nationalism and more

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NEW DELHI, 24/11/2019: A view of Supreme Court of Inida, in New Delhi on November 25,2019.
Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

Political Line | Sedition, language wars and federalism

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Political Line | The ‘better’ political enemy, AAP’s rise, minority rights and more

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Political Line | Selling on sentiments: hues of economic nationalism

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Political Line | The rise of Arvind Kejriwal, Gandhis’ stranglehold over Congress and more

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Political Line | What the poll results say about Indian politics

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Political Line | Welfare combat in U.P.; Biden’s call for more nationalism

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Political Line | Local, national, and anti-national

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Shifting sands, fear and hope in election States

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Political Line | Open surveillance, open communalism

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Political Line | Challenges for Samajwadi Party in U.P.; rights and duties

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Political Line | Swing voters of U.P.; apex court on reservation; IAS flashpoint

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Political Line | Mandal vs. Mandir in U.P.; KCR in the spotlight

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Political Line | Elections in five States, EWS ceiling riddle, news on AFSPA

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Political Line | Matters of the heart, and mother tongues

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Political Line | Age and marriage, what the government says, what the laws prescribe

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Political Line | A tale of two temples and two countries

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Political Line | Congress, Sena, Savarkar; State matters

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Political Line | On the move: Mamata’s national avatar, Kejriwal’s Ayodhya train

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Political Line | Double-engine BJP campaign in UP; Mamata forays outside Bengal

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Political Line | Appropriating Birsa Munda

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Political Line | How much party discipline is too much?

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Political Line | Partnership woes

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Political Line | Playing to the gallery

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Political Line | Congress tries gender politics in U.P.

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Political Line | A Sikh-Jat coalition, after the Muslim-Yadav axis?

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Political Line | Loyalists versus reformists

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Political Line | Perils and promise of Rahul Gandhi’s Punjab Operation

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Political Line | Of citizens and refugees

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Political Line | BJP’s Taliban worry

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Political Line | Political power is going north

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Political Line | Why everyone wants the Brahmin vote in UP

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