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Pakistan’s growing naval fleet, but who is protecting its citizens at sea?

Pakistan’s growing naval fleet, but who is protecting its citizens at sea?

There are two ways to evaluate what a decade of naval investment has bought a country, and Pakistan's own institutional messaging consistently...

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Commodore Johnson Odakkal

India’s growth surge: From economic resilience to global trade power

India’s growth surge: From economic resilience to global trade power

Even as conflicts in West Asia, volatile energy prices, rising tariffs, a weakening rupee and mounting climate pressures rattle economies worldwide,...

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Krishnakumar

Messi signs off and leaves the world of football so much the poorer

Messi signs off and leaves the world of football so much the poorer

All good things must come to an end one day. That phrase, in essence, reflects the football genius Lionel Messi’s decision to end his extraordinary...

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Sr Suryanarayan

Samoothiri’s Malabar: A secular utopia of Hindu-Muslim harmony

Samoothiri’s Malabar: A secular utopia of Hindu-Muslim harmony

A Hindu king for whom Muslims lay down their lives fighting a foreign invader; a Hindu king who insists that his numerically weaker Muslim subjects...

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Mg Radhakrishnan

From strict disciplinarians to system reformers; How teachers have evolved in Indian Cinema

Teachers, in real life, are just normal human beings who come in different colours of humanity. Some has opted to get into this noble profession. Some...

05.09.2026 8

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Shoma Chatterji

From Bollywood to South, films caught in plagiarism controversies

“Plagiarism” is a term generally used in association with literature of all kinds – fiction, non-fiction, essays, even Ph.D. Thesis. But it also...

09.08.2026 30

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Shoma A Chatterji

OPINIONHow a generation shook the cult of invincibility

For the better part of almost a decade and a half, the BJP has operated on an assumption that would have made even Louis XIV blush with embarrassment....

08.08.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

OPINIONStatutory patriotism and the Right to Silence

The Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, passed by Parliament on July 30, marks a watershed moment in India's...

03.08.2026 20

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Faisal Ck

OPINIONThe rise of politics beyond political parties

The Jantar Mantar agitation started by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) taught a lesson that was not learned by political parties in 79 years of...

02.08.2026 40

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P Chidambaram

The Dawn in Jantar Mantar

Bliss was it to be alive in that dawn And to be young was pure heaven A faltering government, a floundering opposition ‘Every time it was sung,...

01.08.2026 30

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Mg Radhakrishnan

India's strength is its many languages, not just one

To speak of the linguistic question in India today is to risk immediate mischaracterization. Let me state my position without ambiguity: I have...

01.08.2026 30

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Shashi Tharoor

OPINIONThe curious case of 'The Gaumutra expert'

There is something peculiarly revealing about the latest controversy over the now-infamous "gaumutra expert." Member of Parliament from...

31.07.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

OPINIONThe slow death of scientific temper

Priyanka Gandhi's remark in Parliament, referring to a member of the government's examination reform panel as a "gomutra expert,"...

29.07.2026 30

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Harikrishnan S

The Spanish system had the final say

The FIFA World Cup has come and gone. The excitement that had gripped the world has now faded away but what a lasting impression the event made...

28.07.2026 30

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Sr Suryanarayan

The new burden of being a public figure

In the age of social media, celebrities are expected to do more than entertain. They are expected to constantly reassure the public of their politics,...

27.07.2026 40

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Neelima Menon

OPINIONWho really won the exam protest?

Politics has a curious habit of rewarding those who move last, provided they move decisively. It is not always the first actor who shapes history, but...

26.07.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

OPINIONAyodhya, Parliament and a protest losing steam

Politics is often less about what is happening than about what people are persuaded to look at. Governments understand this instinctively. They know...

24.07.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

OPINIONThis protest is only the entrance exam

A group of teenage girls at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, tears streaming down their faces, stand before a line of riot police singing the national...

23.07.2026 50

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Hari Kumar

OPINIONBeyond the protest: The politics behind public anger

Every generation has its defining protest, but not every protest becomes a defining political moment. The agitation led by the Cockroach Janta Party...

22.07.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

A faltering government, a floundering opposition

Kerala today presents an unusual political paradox: a government overwhelmed by the problems of plenty and an Opposition paralysed by the problems of...

22.07.2026 50

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Mg Radhakrishnan

OPINIONIndia’s space dream needs more than rockets

India has grown accustomed to celebrating ISRO’s triumphs. Every successful launch, every lunar mission and every satellite deployment is rightly...

18.07.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

Main Wapas Aaunga turns partition into a timeless love story

“Partition” has become a two-edged sword for filmmakers who often reveal an interest in holding up a mirror to the Partition of India in general...

18.07.2026 50

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Shoma A Chatterji

OPINIONEthanol and the Indian motorist: Who is really paying for this transition?

India's ethanol blending programme has been marketed as a patriotic, environmentally responsible and economically prudent initiative. The promise...

16.07.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

A Patchwork Quilt of Kerala Culture

I had the recent pleasure, in Delhi, to celebrate not only the publication of another book by Her Highness Princess Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi...

15.07.2026 40

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Shashi Tharoor

OPINIONWhen peace gives way to rules

Every war begins with a declared objective, but very few end with one. Somewhere between the first missile and the thousandth funeral, objectives give...

14.07.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

OPINIONWhen a bus becomes a policy problem

Kerala's bus network is in structural decline. The availability of bus services in the state fell from one bus for every 910 people in 2000 to...

14.07.2026 40

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Nikhil Ali

FIFA World Cup trophy: Finally, to Latin America or Europe?

The World cup has now come to the crucial phase. Three more matches and then emerges the new World champion of indeed the globe’s most popular...

14.07.2026 40

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Sr Suryanarayan

From chokepoints to strategic stalemate

The brief memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran was seen by many serious observers of the West Asia conundrum as the first sign...

09.07.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

49 years later, Mrinal Sen's Oka Oorie Katha finds a new global audience

The world premiere of the 4K restored version of acclaimed filmmaker Mrinal Sen’s Telugu classic Oka Oorie Katha (1977) is currently underway at...

07.07.2026 40

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Shoma A Chatterji

New EPF scheme: A total of ₹2,350 to be credited to Provident Fund

New Delhi: With the implementation of the new EPF scheme, 12% of the statutory wage limit will go into the PF, while 8.33% from the employer's...

03.07.2026 50

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