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A security person gestures to the crowd as people stand in a queue to exchange discontinued currency notes outside a Post office, in Hyderabad.

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Turkish wave flags of their country as they attend a Democracy and Martyrs' Rally in Istanbul.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine wave to the crowd during a Democracy and Martyrs' Rally in Istanbul.

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Republican presidential Candidate Donald Trump gives his running mate, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana a kiss as they shake hands after Pence's acce...

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Mourners including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attend the funeral of Erdogan's campaign manager Erol Olcak, killed along with his 16-year old son Abdullah and Mustafa Ca...

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Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen speaks to members of the media at his compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. Turkish officials have blamed a failed coup attempt on Gulen, who denies...

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech in Istanbul. Forces loyal to Erdogan quashed a coup attempt in a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left som...

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Turkish citizens wave their national flags as they protest against the military coup outside Turkey's parliament near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara.

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Turkish citizens wave a huge national flag as they protest against the military coup outside Turkey's parliament near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara, Turkey.

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Damage caused by helicopter bombardments inside Turkey's parliament near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara, Turkey. Forces loyal to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoga...

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Hundreds of protesters march on a downtown street during an annual pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong.

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Protesters run during a massive anti-government protest in Kabul. Authorities locked down Afghanistan's capital Monday as tens of thousands of members of an ethnic minority group m...

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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks after leaving Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil. Speaking hours after the Senate voted to suspend her, Rousseff blasted the ...

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Congress supporters during Save Democracy rally organised by congress party at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures while speaking at a rally at Macomb Community College, in Warren, Michigan.

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks during a canvass kick-off event at the Reno Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada

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A man casts his ballot at a polling station during the second round of Egyptian parliamentary elections at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt.

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Tin Aye, chairman of Union Election Commission, left gestures as he delivers a speech during an event to announce election results in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar was trapped in a p...

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Traffic attempts to make it's way through supporters of Myanmar's National League for Democracy party as they wait for election results to be posted outside the NLD headquarters in...

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marjeet Sohi takes oath as Canada's new Minister of Infrastructure and Communities during the ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

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What Does It Mean To Have A Republic Day Without Chief Guest?

There have been only three occasions till now that the country did not have a chief guest to attend Republic Day.

Jan 17, 2021

| Seema Guha
Scrapping Laws Due To Protests Will Put Democracy In Danger: Minister Ramdas Athawale

The farmers have been misled and instigated, and should accept Centre's compromised formula, he says

Dec 21, 2020

| PTI
An Emotional Regime Against Democracy?

A protest against protests must be too much democracy, indeed, but this unfailing support that the government enjoys is the fundamental challenge a “democracy” at 2020 could face, of turning into an emotional regime.

Dec 18, 2020

| Ankit Singh
Before Covid Pandemics Of Religiosity And Strident Nationalism Affected Society: Hamid Ansari

Former vice president Hamid Ansari says against religiosity and strident nationalism, patriotism is a more positive concept.

Nov 21, 2020

| PTI
Tata Lit Live Cancels Event Featuring Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad

'Was this a question of censorship?' asks a statement published online after panel discussion was abruptly cancelled.

Nov 21, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
BJP Murdering India’s Constitution And Democracy: BSP

BSP leader Bhim Rajbhar has claimed that the BSP will form the next government in Uttar Pradesh

Nov 16, 2020

| PTI
No Place For 'Acidic Remarks' In Democracy, Says Rajnath Singh

Expressing concern over hate speeches and personal remarks by leaders of all political parties, Singh said there is no place for hatred in healthy politics.

Nov 01, 2020

| PTI
'Agri laws Are Death Sentence For Farmers, Indian Democracy Dies Too' : Rahul Gandhi

Gandhi tagged a news report along with his tweet that claimed that Opposition members demanding a division of votes were on their seats when the farm bills were passed in the Rajya Sabha, while the government said they were not.

Sep 28, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
‘A Republic, If You Can Keep It'

Representative legislature, balanced executive, judicial review, media scrutiny and the checks and balances between them, together make a democracy. But is this all we need to keep a democracy? Gaurav Shetty argues that a democracy cannot maintain its structure on its own.

Sep 27, 2020

| Gaurav Shetty
'Freedom Is Not given – It Is Taken': Bose's Words Are Reminder Of How To Win Back Unity In Diversity

Having been a critical messenger to Subhash Bose across borders, my grandfather had joined the “Bengal Volunteers” party at the age of 15 and told me that he realised his life’s mission right then – to serve and die for his country, writes Isheeta Ganguly.

Aug 18, 2020

| Isheeta Ganguly

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Floydian Slip

For Black lives in the US and Dalit lives in India, what needs to change is not only unjust laws, but the distribution of power.

Dec 31, 2020

| Nic Dawes
Just Conduct Under The Indian State

There is no inherent tension between national security and human rights in the minds of soldiers. The debate should be directed at the government that makes policies and enacts laws.

Dec 30, 2020

| Lt Gen (retd) D.S. Hooda
Mind The Gap

A smorgasbord of rights violations is aided by the dysfunctionality of legislatures. Dispiritingly, the Supreme Court is unable to enforce its own enlightened judgments in favour of individual rights against the state.

Dec 30, 2020

| Dr. Ashwani Kumar
Of Rage, Courage And Democracy

What does fearlessness have to do with democratic citizenship—and the formal rights entailed in it? A contrastive reading of Savarkar and Gandhi offers us cues.

Dec 30, 2020

| Ajay Skaria
‘Farm Bills Were Passed After Dissent And Debate’

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla says the Constitution of India is the backbone of nation's parliamentary democracy and no government can tamper with its core values

Dec 09, 2020

| Ruben Banerjee Bhavna Vij-Aurora
Republic Day Special | Opinion: Democracy Is About Difference And Its Celebration, Drowning Voice Can Be Counterproductive

As the Indian Republic draws to 70, the hopes and dreams lie in vibrant debate. The challenge will lie in addressing the yearning for identity in a way consistent with the practices of democracy, writes Mahesh Rangarajan

Jan 22, 2020

| Mahesh Rangarajan
This Is Not Cricket... No One, However High And Mighty, Is Above The Law

Do not abuse the trust or faith of any sizeable section of citizens, even BR Ambedkar had warned the rulers, reminds senior journalist Harish Khare

Dec 25, 2019

| Harish Khare
We The People At The Crossroads

The nation’s democratic foundations are firm but our pluralism is on trial

Jan 23, 2019

| Mahesh Rangarajan
It Takes A Quake To Tango

The old Liberal Order is under great stress from global economic convulsions. Desai runs through the past century to provide its socio-political context.

Sep 01, 2017

| C. Uday Bhaskar
On Parallel, Shining Paths

Gandhiji’s vision of India—a moral, secular version of village life and economy—was the opposite of Nehru’s ideals of socialism, democracy and science. Both made compromises in their stands.

Aug 10, 2017

| Irfan Habib
Not This, Not This!

Since we, as a nation, take immense pride in our Upanishadic traditions, why don’t we ask questions?

Oct 21, 2016

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