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DPDP Act is a suraksha kawach for data privacy

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, seeks to balance individual privacy with the realities of a rapidly expanding digital...

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Shehzad Poonawalla

DPDP Act: Trojan horse for State overreach

In June, the Union government restricted access to Telegram across the country under the IT Act, citing paper-leak concerns. The company has since...

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Tanya Verma

How long before India’s permanent UNSC seat?

The defeat of Germany in the June 2026 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) elections for the 2027–2028 term has sent shockwaves. They lost their...

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Ts Tirumurti

Pakistan's Indus entreaties to the West hold little water

Pakistan’s well-established public relations apparatus has launched an aggressive campaign against India’s plan to optimise the Indus Waters...

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Key questions that Andaman and Nicobar LG must answer

The last few weeks have seen an important entrant into the public discussion on the Great Nicobar mega-infrastructure project. DK Joshi — former...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Films like Satluj strengthen India’s democratic core

Every once in a while, a film comes along that deserves to be judged not merely by its cinematic merit but by the questions it compels society to ask....

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Questioning Ram Mandir theft is a dharmic duty

Daan, the act of giving, is among the oldest and most precisely theorised concepts in the Hindu moral imagination. It is not charity or a secular...

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Shubhrastha

Australia balm for India’s fuel-fertiliser-forex pains

As Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi lands in Melbourne this week for bilateral talks with Australian PM Anthony Albanese, the timing speaks volumes....

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Hindustantimes Editorial

The health care data that matters to households

For the last few weeks, India’s health conversation has revolved around the findings from the sixth round of the National Family Health Survey...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: How Taj transformed a London hotel into a luxury icon

It’s the one London hotel where, over the last four decades, nearly every Indian of consequence from Prime Ministers to superstars like Amitabh...

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Vir Sanghvi

Every parents’ worst nightmare

Five caregivers at a daycare centre inside global IT major Capgemini’s Brookfield campus in Bengaluru have been booked for subjecting toddlers in...

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Namita Bhandare

Pakistan's Asim Munir marshals his successes, for now

“I would not be here without his statesmanship. He is a great military leader, but I think he has shown himself to be a great diplomat,” said US...

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Don’t read too much into Bangladesh PM’s China visit

Bangladesh Prime Minister (PM) Tarique Rahman made his maiden foreign tour two weeks ago, four months after taking office, to Malaysia followed by...

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Happymon Jacob

Restoring trust after Ram Temple theft controversy

It was 1989, and the days were humid and stuffy, just as now. My colleague and I were discussing the future of the Ram Mandir Movement with the main...

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Shashi Shekhar

A ‘liberating' feeling: Travel as antidote to our exaggerated problems

I am writing this from Bellagio, a town on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. It somehow reminds me of my home in Uttar Pradesh — a home which exists...

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Abhishek Asthana

‘Survival is a daily act…’: Indian women farmers’ long wait for visibility

When Usha Kute’s husband, a debt-ridden farmer, died by suicide in 2016, she inherited not just his half-acre farm in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal...

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Namita Bhandare

Lost in translation: How India speaks English

Do you know what makes the English we speak so different to that spoken by the British? It’s not simply our accent and pronunciation, nor our...

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Karan Thapar

Rohit Vemula to Payal Tadvi: Lessons in discrimination, from India’s classrooms

He was not yet nine but the accident of his birth had marked him. In class, everyone was seated according to academic merit, but him. The young boy...

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Dhrubo Jyoti

A do-or-die moment for regional parties

The beauty of India’s democracy is that it always moves from one election to the other, as if it is a relay race. For the BJP, the heady feeling of...

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Shashi Shekhar

Play. It prepares us for learning and life

There are familiar sounds that echo across every childhood — the thud of a ball on dusty grounds, the laughter of children racing through narrow...

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Sachin Tendulkar