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India Strikes, Pakistan Surrenders: Modi’s Operation Sindoor Shatters Pakistan’s Nuclear Bluff

The true strategic masterstroke is Prime Minister Modi’s declaration: “Any future terrorist attack on my motherland will be considered an Act of...

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Right Word | 14 Lessons Learnt from Operation Sindoor

India’s indigenous weapons performed exceptionally during the conflict

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Arun Anand

Opinion | India Won The War, But Lost Narrative Battle To Pakistani & Western Lies

It is time for India to up the PR ante, spend money on building presence in international media, and counter the global negative narrative more...

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Lord Ayyappa’s Strategy Holds Lessons For India’s Fight Against Terror

Sabarimala’s legend reminds us that spiritual resolve and strategic firmness can go hand in hand

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Dr G Shreekumar Menon

Opinion | Operation Sindoor: India Showed It Can Decimate Pakistan’s Airbases In Hours

The strikes exposed the Pakistan Air Force’s vulnerability and its inability to defend its sovereign airspace against Indian precision targeting

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K Yatish Rajawat

Opinion | Decoding Munir’s Outbursts: It All Leads Back To Iqbal's Ideology

Mohammed Iqbal, often hailed as the ideological founder of Pakistan, laid the groundwork for its politics of division. Asim Munir’s rhetoric today...

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Anirban Ganguly

Opinion | Beyond The Ceasefire: How Pakistan’s Disinformation Campaign Wages A New Kind Of War

Even as guns fall silent along the Line of Control, Pakistan’s battle for perception rages online through lies, manipulated visuals, and...

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Prosenjit Nath

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma Retirements Leave Indian Cricket Facing Transition Test

Virat Kohli, 36, and Rohit Sharma, 38, who announced their retirement from Test cricket, were the face of India’s Test dominance over the past...

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Ameya Bhise

OPINION | The Indo-Pak 'Understanding' Is An Undeclared Indian Win

Pakistan now understands that any future reliance on terrorism will invite a full-spectrum declaration of war from India.

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | When Terror Has A Sugar Daddy

The West’s historical support for Pakistan has only emboldened its aggressive behaviour

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Sankrant Sanu

OPINION | India Needs Cognitive Warfare Plan

Fighting enemy on information highway as on ground emerges a big challenge and opportunity for Bharat that’s declared war on terror.

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Rohan Giri

OPINION | Is India’s Military Future-Ready? A Deep Dive Into Defence Reforms

Since the liberalisation era of 1991, India’s defence transformation has been steadily progressing, and recent policy shifts mark a new era of...

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Major General K Narayanan

OPINION | Utopian Ceasefire: It Is 'Viraam' And Not 'Poorna Viraam'

A short skirmish suits Pakistan, especially when it can curate a ‘Notion of Victory’ from defeat and they have demonstrated that in 1965, 1971 and...

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Colonel Rohit Dev

Opinion | Pragmatic Nationalism, Diplomatic Gesture To Tough Stance

The Modi government promotes a doctrine of defensive offence – engaging diplomatically when feasible, but responding militarily or economically...

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K Venkatakrishna Rao

Opinion | Terror Will Be Treated As War: PM Modi’s Clear Warning to Pakistan

India signals a decisive shift—future terror attacks will invite war, not talks. Pakistan must dismantle its terror networks or face the full force...

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Brajesh Kumar Singh

Opinion | IMF, Are You Watching? $1-Billion Loan Approved, Pakistan Targets Civilians, Escalates War With India

India has long maintained that Islamabad diverts aid—meant for welfare and reform—towards bolstering its military or supporting non-state actors...

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Opinion | What Explains Pakistan’s Repeated Attacks on India

Those who forget—or do not know—history are doomed to repeat it

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion | Why Is IMF Still Backing Pakistan? World Must Ask Tougher Questions

The underlying message? Strategic behaviour and peace are not prerequisites for financial support

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Griha Atul

Opinion | Blind Support For Pakistan Is Not Ummah: It’s Thuggery In The Name Of Islam

The aggressor has always been Pakistan, which has not only turned a blind eye towards terrorism but also emboldened it through the use of Islam

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Zahack Tanvir

Opinion | The Modi Doctrine: India’s New Security Paradigm

Unlike previous doctrines, the Modi Doctrine incorporates multiple dimensions—military, diplomatic, economic, and political—to tackle terrorism...

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Aditya Pittie

Opinion | UK-India FTA: Overcoming Colonial Hangover To Trade On Equal Terms

India gains access in employment-rich sectors while giving ground in premium upper-class markets

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Ninad D Sheth

Opinion | Even After Operation Sindoor, Gilgit-Baltistan Will Be Crucial To The Bigger Picture

The reclamation of Gilgit-Baltistan will be a strategic and economic watershed moment for Bharat

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Gautam R Desiraju

Opinion | Operation Sindoor: Testament To PM Modi’s Political Fortitude

Be it the surgical strike of 2016, Balakot strike of 2019 or Operation Sindoor of 2025, they all have one thing in common -- vision and political...

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | Operation Sindoor: Modi Rewrites The Rules Of Deterrence

Operation Sindoor shows retaliation need not always be static; that it can be agile, pre-emptive, assertive yet contained

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Rahul Shivshankar

OPINION | While India Lauds Op Sindoor, The Deafening Silence Of Valley Leaders Echoes Loud

Leaders like Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah, Sajad Lone, Altaf Bukhari, Ruhullah Mehdi, Waheed Para — chose not to issue a single...

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Mudasir Dar

OPINION | Operation Sindoor: Why The Elite’s ‘Peace Sermons’ Reek Of Privilege And Denial

When India bleeds, the privileged preach restraint. But justice isn’t warmongering, it’s the price of sovereignty.

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Ashraya Kannan

Opinion: Why ‘Operation Sindoor’ Surpasses Nomenclature And Establishes Trust

Is being accountable for and answerable to their identity as daughters and women citizens of India, too, "ownership of women"?

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Sumati Mehrishi

Finepoint | How Modi Got Inside Pakistan's Head And Scripted Its Public Humiliation

Operation Sindoor is the answer – a response as deliberate as it is devastating, to remind Pakistan that the price of butchery will be paid in full

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Shubhangi Sharma