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1 week ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
The two-state two-step wasn’t a serious commitment; it was a way of pretending that the shrinking bantustans of Gaza and the West Bank were a state in the making Mukul Kesavan Published 30.05.25, 05:51 AM Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, in Rafah Reuters Over the last month, global opinion on Israel’s unending massacre of Palestinians in Gaza has shifted, at least rhetorically.
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
As drones and missiles shoot across borders, it’s worth thinking of Pahalgam as a cautionary tale. The final destination of majoritarianism is the complete dehumanisation of the Other Mukul Kesavan Published 11.05.25, 06:01 AM An Indian army personnel at the site of the Pahalgam terror attack PTI photo The residents’ association’s WhatsApp group was alive with information about mock drills and blackouts.
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1 month ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
The fact that the Supreme Court is willing to stay crucial parts of the Waqf (Amendment) Act suggests that the judicial deference that Modi government commanded as its due is not readily available Mukul Kesavan Published 20.04.25, 06:31 AM People take part in a protest against the Central Government over Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, near Charminar in Hyderabad, Friday, April 18, 2025. PTI The Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025 is an exercise in premeditated bad faith.
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2 months ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
One of the revelations of this young Trump term has been the embarrassing servility of America’s European allies. It has fallen to China by a kind of default to restore geopolitical equilibrium Mukul Kesavan Published 06.04.25, 06:35 AM Donald Trump and Xi Jinping Sourced by the Telegraph The economically illiterate reader (like me) browsing the headlines about Donald Trump’s tariffs looks to borrow the opinions of his betters.
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2 months ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
If international cricket comes to be seen as BCCI’s rotten borough, it will lose its credibility and with it, its precarious hold on the public imagination.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
It’s hard to believe that making subordinate allies and clients like Britain, France and Ukraine tiptoe performatively around an unpredictable president is a winning global strategy for the US Mukul Kesavan Published 02.03.25, 07:23 AM Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance at the White House.
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
Noting the congruence between MAGA’s world view and that of Europe’s neo-fascist Right, it would be a mistake to think that Europe’s Centrist establishment is fire-walled against far-Right politics Mukul Kesavan Published 23.02.25, 07:28 AM Simon Schama and Donald Trump: Shared stripes Sourced by The Telegraph Jaded veterans of peace negotiations have cynically observed that if you aren’t at the table, you’re on the menu.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
It’s hard to accept that a dispositive majority of Americans love Trump and revel in his bigotry. To say that would amount to saying that the ground out of which American democracy grows is poisoned Mukul Kesavan Published 09.02.25, 07:15 AM U.S President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the entrance of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 4, 2025.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
Trump’s ascension is as important for what it makes visible as it is for what he might do as president. It has been obvious that countries of the Anglosphere surf the world using America’s sinews Mukul Kesavan Published 19.01.25, 08:54 AM Donald Trump. File picture Donald Trump’s election is the gift that keeps on giving for those of us who live elsewhere.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Aijaz Ahmad |A.G. Noorani |Mukul Kesavan
Indian politics over the past decade makes the case for a revisionist history of the republic. The success of the Sangh Parivar in imposing a communal common sense on Indian politics should encourage us to review India’s republican past in the light of Narendra Modi’s ascendancy. We should ask why our democracy, built on the simple majorities of a first-past-the-post system, took so long to become majoritarian.
