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Opinion Editor, @Firstpost & @News18 . Previously with Sunday Guardian, Mail Today, HT, Pioneer. Views are personal & retweets are not necessarily endorsements

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Utpal Kumar
6 months
Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy is going for a reprint just two months after its release. As I thank everyone including readers, I cannot but say a special thank you to @ARanganathan72 for supporting this book like no one else. #BharatRising #Bestseller #newbook2024
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A big shoutout from @ARanganathan72 on why one should read Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy (). When a Dharma warrior like him says something, it gets traction, garners attention. Thank you sir @BluOneInk #NewBook
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5 years
How Amitbhai became the Shah of Indian politics. My review of @anirbanganguly 's brilliant book on @AmitShah in The Sunday Guardian. @AmitShahOffice @BloomsburyIndia
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6 months
Bharat Rising in good company at Mumbai airport. #Bestseller #BharatRising #newbook @BluOneInk @praveenBlu
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9 years
A must-read piece on how Modi can make 2016 his year. Thanks @minhazmerchant for writing for @mail_today 's NY issue
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9 years
How Modi can win back his X-factor by tackling issues head-on. My piece in MailOnline UK & @mail_today India
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8 years
Why @AudreyTruschke 's attempt to humanise #Aurangzeb falls flat. My review in @mail_today @abhijitmajumder
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7 months
A sneak peek into my talk based on my book, Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy at #Bharatnomics organised by #WMG in Bangalore on March 8. #BharatRising #newbook @BluOneInk @praveenBlu
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An incisive review of Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy () in @SundayGuardian by Prof @JajatiPattnaik and Prof Chandan Panda … #BharatRising #newbook2024 #Bestseller #dharma #democracy #diplomacy @BluOneInk @praveenBlu
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7 years
. @authoramish explains how little we know #Ramayana | @Utpal_Kumar1 |
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7 years
#ImmortalIndia @authoramish on his new book and how religious & secular fundamentalism feed each other @mail_today
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My book Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy has gone for second print. And it would not have been possible without the support of friends and well wishers. @bibekdebroy has been most kind. Thank you sir. #bharatrising #newbook2024 #bestseller @BluOneInk @praveenBlu
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6 years
At a time when it's becoming fashionable to compare today's times with #Emergency @mediasurya reveals the dirty face of the 21 months when entire village got vasectomised to get numbers right or a cop was made chief censor officer for newspapers #Press
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@KanchanGupta 's tribute to PV Narasimha Rao and how the #Congress under Sonia and Rahul has forgotten him. Even when @narendramodi is praising PVNR, the FAMILY has no time for him; instead it is busy attacking govt on LAC.
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4 years
#PMModi praises Narasimha Rao but Rahul Gandhi is busy attacking govt on LAC
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8 years
How #'terrorist'BhagatSingh debate exposes India's eminent historians
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9 years
#Conclave16 tell me one person in Bollywood who didn't have connection with underworld, says Sanjay Dutt
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5 years
#Nehru 's #Balochistan blooper was as disastrous as his #HimalayanBlunder . My piece in this week's Sunday Guardian.
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5 years
What our eminent historians can learn from @DalrympleWill 's new book #TheAnarchy . #NewBook #History #BritishEmpire
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An incisive review of Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy () in @SundayGuardian by Prof @JajatiPattnaik and Prof Chandan Panda. #BharatRising #newbook2024 #Bestseller #dharma #democracy #diplomacy @BluOneInk @praveenBlu
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5 years
When the entire news desk is too shocked to work after the election results!
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6 years
In an era when everyone is a photographer but the art of photography is dying, my piece on Canon killing its last film camera. Should we bemoan it? #photography #RaghuRau #nostalgia
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7 years
How little we know #Ambedkar despite having his statues all over. He opposed #Aryan invasion theory when even #Tilak supported it.
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8 years
So little is known of #NarasimhaRao 's foreign policy initiatives.He deserved more. Thanks @barugaru for book on him.
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2 years
True face of a liberal Muslim. Not a word for death, rape threats!
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Farhan Akhtar
2 years
A forced apology is never from the heart.
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2 years
Was forcing myself to think that Bengal was an aberration, then @NupurSharmaBJP happened. Left to fend for herself, like her Bengal counterparts!
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Utpal Kumar
6 months
Finally, the book is here. A must read for every conscientious citizen on how the stalled wheels of justice can break a human life. #Unputdownable
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Shishir Tripathi
6 months
The pre order for my book ‘Stalled Wheels of Justice’ has started. Anyone interested can order from Amazon. And it will be available in book stores near you from May 5, Thanks for all the support. Jai Mahadev @byajaysingh @praveenBlu @Utpal_Kumar1
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2 years
How #Ambedkar 's idea of Islam exposes our woolly-headed liberals. A brilliant article by @Aabhas24
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10 months
Please leave it to Hindus to decide, our mai-baap sarkar!
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10 months
मृत्यु भोज करना व उसमें शामिल होना कानूनन दंडनीय है। मानवीय दृष्टिकोण से भी यह आयोजन अनुचित है। आइए मिलकर इस कुरूति को समाज से दूर करें, इसका विरोध करें। #RajasthanPolice #MrityuBhojAct1960
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7 years
#ClaudeArpi 's book exposes #Nehru not just ignored #Patel 's advice on #Tibet but also some top diplomats like Sir Girija Prasad Bajpai.
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7 years
Claude Arpi's book exposes India's ties with China and Tibet like never before | @Utpal_Kumar1 |
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Utpal Kumar
4 years
Those who believe #history is now being distorted must read @tca_raghavan 's History Men. Ace historian Jadunath Sarkar was denied any award despite being recommended by Rajendra Prasad for Padma Vibhushan & Padma Bhushan. Answer isn't difficult to find.
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8 months
@rajnathsingh @BluOneInk Thank you @rajnathsingh sir. It was a pleasure meeting you with my publisher-friend @praveenBlu . The book Bharat Rising chronicles the rise of new India and is available on pre-order on Amazon (). #BharatRising #newbook BluOne Ink
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Utpal Kumar
5 months
Another gem from @sreemoytalukdar
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Sreemoy Talukdar
5 months
While researching for my latest piece, I was struck by the way American liberal media went into torturous justification of police brutality on campus, or simply looked the other way. This is not hypocrisy, but statecraft.
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9 months
Thankful to @bibekdebroy jee for kind words about #BharatRising () during its launch at SRCC on Jan 20. Also, grateful to @KanwalSibal jee, @AmbRajivDogra jee, @ashwinsanghi jee, @swapan55 jee, @VivekKatju jee and @ramindesai jee for releasing the book.
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6 years
A TV channel is showing a film on Churchill to celebrate Independence Day. Incredibly insensitive, for the 'great' man was the only reason why some 3 million Indians died of famine in Bengal. Or is it the lack of historical indifference? #Churchill #&Prive #IndependenceDay2018
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6 months
My book Bharat Rising has just gone for the second print. And it would not have been possible without the support of friends and well wishers. @ARanganathan72 is one among them. Thank you Dr Ranganathan. #bharatrising #newbook2024 #bestseller @bluone .ink @praveentiwari149
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Utpal Kumar
5 months
@kushal_mehra Thank you Bhai. I am midway through you book. Loving it. Will review it next week after @Aabhas24 's brilliant 'Babur' this weekend. Thank you again. Regards
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Utpal Kumar
7 years
My review of @ShashiTharoor 's book. A must read especially for its first half, where he is in an intellectual's avatar. The book falls flat only in second half when he writes like a politician.
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4 years
Who is Papa CJ? What makes him click? Why did he leave his high-flying corporate job at IBM in London for stand-up comedy? He tells them all in an exclusive interview with me.
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7 years
Why @HillaryClinton book #WhatHppened should not be read if you want to know more about 2016 prez poll. @mail_today
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9 years
Revealed #JNU 's dark #Maoist secret. @SiddharthaRai2
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Utpal Kumar
6 years
When former chiefs of R&AW and ISI write a book together, one expects it to be explosive, but #TheSpyChronicles by #Dulat and #Durrani turns out to be a whimper. The book is a mix of fact, fiction and wishful thinking. My review in @mail_today
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9 years
Why the ongoing war with ISIS won't go far. My column in @mail_today
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Utpal Kumar
7 years
Asterix and Obelix are back with 37th adventure. Why the Gauls are so popular & what gives them edge over Tintin.
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9 months
Dear @MEAIndia @passportsevamea Please look into the matter. My passport seems to have got stuck somewhere. I had applied for its renewal on September 27, 2023 (File no.: GZ1078606381223). Police verification was done within a week. But no progress since then. Look forward...
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3 years
When an educated, former journalist, who has worked in English newspapers in Delhi, writes that a "perfect religion" was created some 1,500 years ago and it doesn't need any reform, you know where the problem lies. #Islam #reforms #Islamophobia_in_india
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8 months
A wonderful review of Bharat Rising: Dharma, Democracy, Diplomacy. Do watch and spread words #BharatRising #newbook @BluOneInk
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5 years
How the Left massacred thousands of Dalits in West Bengal and yet no one talked about it. My piece explaining the conspiracy of silence while review of Deep Halder's book, Blood Island: An Oral History of Marichjhapi Massacre, in The Sunday Guardian
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8 years
#NitishKumar deserves praise for rising over political pettiness as he favours demonetisation via @economictimes
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3 years
#Nehru , Northeast and not-so splendid isolation. My column in The Daily Guardian on how in the last seven years, there has sincere attempts to pull the #Northeast out of its ‘splendid isolation’, which was "treating people of the region like #Gir lions".
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9 years
Posting my interview, though belatedly, with @HindolSengupta on what it means to be a Hindu in the new world.
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7 years
#BimalJalan praises @narendramodi for bold reforms & calls predictions of slowdown after #DeMonetisation alarmist.
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9 years
Sonia makes Pratibha Prez of India, but questions BJP for making Gajendra FTII chief. She is mum on Vadra but goes after Sushma on LaMo.
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2 years
You crack jokes on Shiva, Ram, Krishana, and you are feted worldwide as a liberal. You remind others about their glass houses, and you become intolerant, insensitive. Well done #BJP ! #NupurSharma
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2 years
What would you say when you realise this man teaches in a prestigious #DelhiUniversity college? I think he is yet to understand difference between being critical & being boorishly offensive. Not fit to teach students! @dpradhanbjp @EduMinOfIndia #GyanvapiShivling #GyanvapiMosque
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Utpal Kumar
7 years
How to defeat @narendramodi in 2019? A two-point theory by @derekobrienmp . But can Opposition do it? Seems difficult
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9 months
Special thanks to my publishers @BluOneInk , especially @praveenBlu and my younger brother @Shishir_SD
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Utpal Kumar
3 years
If Lakshadweep's #eco -sensitive islands are to be protected, locals have to be made a stakeholders in the tourism industry. As in #Africa and elsewhere, their presence actually helped save #wildlife from poachers. My take.
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3 years
What about this, @EdwardGLuce ? This is called selective liberalism
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Edward Luce
3 years
Also keep this image in mind. Modi is also part of the Putin appreciation society.
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4 years
Why #YogiAdityanath has every right to say that the #Mughals aren't his heroes. My column in The Daily Guardian #Akbar #IraMukhoty #Nehruvian #History
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8 years
India alone worries about nukes?Does Pak worry be4 sending jihadis? My piece in @mail_today on why it's time to act.
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2 years
#BJP 's #ShahBano moment?? One hopes not and it's a momentary blip. Political ground often slips during such moments. Remember Advani's Jinnah comment! #nupursharmabjp
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Utpal Kumar
7 years
Why the book #TheGoldenHouse further vindicates the slow death of @SalmanRushdie as a novelist. @mail_today
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5 years
52 MPs enough to take on #BJP , @RahulGandhi tells his party men. He is the best 12th man BJP can ever aspire for.
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7 years
Is another biography on #IndiraGandhi relevant in the age of #Modi ? | @Utpal_Kumar1 |
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7 years
Where were the nation's conscience keepers when the previous regime got 10 dead persons in #ICSSR collegium? @Ram_Guha @sardesairajdeep
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Science News
7 years
#Dead social #Scientists in ICSSR collegium list: ,
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1 year
@SandipGhose @firstpost You very rightly saw it coming. Party failed to course correct.
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Utpal Kumar
8 years
My @mail_today review of @AudreyTruschke book on #Aurangzeb and why her attempt to humanise would fail and how it exposes our liberals
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DailyO
8 years
Why liberals love to humanise #Aurangzeb | @utpal_kumar1 | #Mughals
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6 years
My review of @michiokaku 's latest book
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IndiaToday
6 years
"Either we must leave the Earth or we will perish. There is no other way."
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8 months
@TrulyMonica Thank you for your review. Regards
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Utpal Kumar
2 years
Yes @NupurSharmaBJP lost her cool, but did she lie? Did she distort the holy text? Or is she being booked for raising her voice on prime time? #NupurSharmaBJP
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11 years
Wonder why there's so much protest in Tamil Nadu against Madras Cafe, when one movie which made them look idiots was Chennai Express
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6 years
My interview of @vinay1011 for @mail_today where he tells us how #ModiSarkar is different from other govts in past and why Indians are knowing more about US and Europe than their own country #Modi #DeMonetisation #saffronisation #ICCR #GST #BIOMETRIC
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MailToday
6 years
Vinay Sahasrabuddhe's book explores the examples of PM Modi's governance @Utpal_Kumar1 #MailToday
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2 years
Excerpts from latest @RatanSharda55 book.
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2 years
#ICYMI The scenario in the North Eastern region has been highly worrying since Independence, with the pitch queered further by the Church, present there for nearly 160 years
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6 years
Had #StephenHawking known Indian philosophy, he would have been Adi Shankaracharya's desciple. @PavanK_Varma says so while explaining how his ideas and teachings have never been more relevant. #philosophy #Physics #Shankara #Universe @mail_today
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5 years
Hope those who tweeted and spread fake news on @mlkhattar statement come out and publicly apologise now.
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Manohar Lal
5 years
Dear @RahulGandhi ji, at least at your level, you shouldn’t react on distorted news. I’m attaching the video of what I actually said, and In what context - this will give you clarity of mind.
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3 years
Biden’s Faustian bargain with smart, media-savvy Taliban. My article in The Daily Guardian. Joe Biden might have bought a short-term reprieve for a long-term humiliation.
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5 years
One wonders if #SoniaGandhi became @INCIndia prez to retain family hold or to contain rising @priyankagandhi call. Whatever it may be, the fact is the party has decided to look back when it should have looked ahead and outside the family.
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9 years
#ParisShooting These are not just attacks on France but on values which modern democratic societies believe in. We all are Parisian today.
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5 years
‘Churchill was no friend of India but he didn’t orchestrate Bengal famine’. My interview with noted British historian Diana Preston. #History #Churchill #Roosevelt #Stalin #BengalFamine
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Utpal Kumar
2 years
The very people who stood behind @ratanlal72 in the name of freedom of expression are now talking about provocation, sentiments, religious amity. #NupurSharma
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Utpal Kumar
8 years
Always thought #NitishKumar and @narendramodi would have been political allies. #DeMonetisation via @economictimes
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2 years
The illiberal liberals! Shame when eminent members of free press muzzle voices! @FCCNewDelhi @vivekagnihotri
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Utpal Kumar
6 years
@salman7khurshid tells @mail_today that #Congress should have defended #ManmohanSingh more, the party conceded defeat well before the 2014 poll campaign, and how there was no scam in 2G. As for @narendramodi , it's a window-dressing govt, he said.
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5 years
How @narendramodi SCOres big on #terror as @ImranKhanPTI looks for cover even in a grouping led by its all-weather friend, #China . My story in The Sunday Guardian
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