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Opinion | When Due Process Fails: My Year Of Professional Exile At The WHO

Opinion | When Due Process Fails: My Year Of Professional Exile At The WHO

Multilateral organisations like WHO are innately political in nature and therefore all senior leaders are vulnerable to political victimisation

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Saima Wazed

Opinion | Drug Abuse On The Frontlines

Opinion | Drug Abuse On The Frontlines

Extended periods of intense stress, mixed with long stretches of uncertainty and fear of imminent death, create environments where substance use can...

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Dr G Shreekumar Menon

Opinion | They Came, They Saw, But Did They Conquer? Part Duo

Opinion | They Came, They Saw, But Did They Conquer? Part Duo

Apple’s strategy with the iPhone Duo feels clear: create a product that signals exclusivity. Not everyone will buy it, and that may be the point.

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Anjan N. Ghosh

Opinion | How A School Bag Became A National Conversation

Opinion | How A School Bag Became A National Conversation

A letter to Jayant Chaudhary has sparked a wider debate on implementing a policy that could change the everyday lives of millions of children

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Sundeep Bhutoria

Right Word | Ladakh’s Constitutional Future: Why Article 371 Matters

Right Word | Ladakh’s Constitutional Future: Why Article 371 Matters

The reason that makes Article 371 a better option for Ladakh can be found in a provision that receives little attention in the public debate

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Arun Anand

Opinion | ‘Sarkar Unki, System Humara’: What Nationalists Can Learn From Marxist Thinker Gramsci

Opinion | ‘Sarkar Unki, System Humara’: What Nationalists Can Learn From Marxist Thinker Gramsci

If nationalists want to retain power for many decades irrespective of electoral outcomes, they have to win the culture war.

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Abhijit Majumder

Write Mind | Scroll Down. You’re Being Managed

Write Mind | Scroll Down. You’re Being Managed

Put the phone down. Pick the purpose up. The Suvarn Kaal does not build itself. You do

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Yuvraj Pokharna

Opinion | From Periphery To Fulcrum: India's BRICS Journey Under PM Modi

Opinion | From Periphery To Fulcrum: India's BRICS Journey Under PM Modi

The most consequential strategic shift is that India is increasingly able to speak for the Global South without speaking against the West

sunday 10

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Reel Deal: Bollywood Star? Meet The Pan-India Star

Opinion | Reel Deal: Bollywood Star? Meet The Pan-India Star

Bollywood isn’t disappearing. It has simply lost its monopoly on Indian stardom.

12.09.2026 20

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Tavishi Paitandy

Opinion | PM Modi Made India The Bridge Inside BRICS And The Bloc’s Only Door To The West

Opinion | PM Modi Made India The Bridge Inside BRICS And The Bloc’s Only Door To The West

Ten members leave Delhi tomorrow still needing one government that can speak to all of them and to the West on the same day. That is what PM Modi...

12.09.2026 20

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Sohil Sinha

Straight Talk | BRICS Summit: With Xi And Putin In Delhi, India Takes Global Centre Stage

Straight Talk | BRICS Summit: With Xi And Putin In Delhi, India Takes Global Centre Stage

What's on display in Delhi this week is confidence built on numbers — growth, market size, defence capability — not just rhetoric

11.09.2026 10

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Opinion: They Came, They Saw, But Did They Conquer?

Opinion: They Came, They Saw, But Did They Conquer?

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11.09.2026 6

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Anjan N. Ghosh

Opinion | Modi-Xi Bilateral: Why The Leaders Are Meeting And Why It's Not A Reset Just As Yet

Opinion | Modi-Xi Bilateral: Why The Leaders Are Meeting And Why It's Not A Reset Just As Yet

While it may be too early to call it a reset for relations, three reasons explain why India-China ties have reached a point of inflection

11.09.2026 10

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | Rebuttal To P Chidambaram – What Has India Achieved? BRICS, QUAD & SCO

Opinion | Rebuttal To P Chidambaram – What Has India Achieved? BRICS, QUAD & SCO

PM Modi's track record shows a Bharat that has used multi-alignment to expand options, attract capital and technology and project influence without...

10.09.2026 20

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | Veg Or Non-Veg? Why What Bageshwar Baba Says Doesn’t Matter

Opinion | Veg Or Non-Veg? Why What Bageshwar Baba Says Doesn’t Matter

The Hindu faith has come a long way from its organic beginnings lost in the mists of time; the only constant has been its historic ability to change...

10.09.2026 30

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Global Watch | Paying Price Of Insecurity: How Pak's Security Crisis Is Undermining China's CPEC Dream

Global Watch | Paying Price Of Insecurity: How Pak's Security Crisis Is Undermining China's CPEC Dream

Chinese companies have forced Beijing to confront a difficult truth: billions of dollars cannot guarantee success when the operating environment...

10.09.2026 20

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Words As Weapons: How Linguistic Habits Blind Us To Terror And Traumatic Realities

Opinion | Words As Weapons: How Linguistic Habits Blind Us To Terror And Traumatic Realities

Very often, we become victims of habits that were calculatedly imposed upon us by our enemies

10.09.2026 20

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Manoj Raghuvanshi

Opinion | AfD Sweep In Germany Sends Bold Message: Stop Invasion In Immigration’s Name

Opinion | AfD Sweep In Germany Sends Bold Message: Stop Invasion In Immigration’s Name

Whether it's Germany revolting against mass migration, or India pushing back Bangladeshi and Rohingya illegals, the voice against demographic and...

09.09.2026 30

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Progressive State, Conservative Sanctuary: The Grand Mufti And His Defenders

Opinion | Progressive State, Conservative Sanctuary: The Grand Mufti And His Defenders

The lack of public discussion about such practices is worth considering because it illustrates the wider authority enjoyed by religious scholars...

08.09.2026 30

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Prajesh Panikkar

Opinion | Owaisi’s Historical Myopia: Why Reducing Uzbekistan To ‘Babur’s Land’ Fails Both Past And Present

Opinion | Owaisi’s Historical Myopia: Why Reducing Uzbekistan To ‘Babur’s Land’ Fails Both Past And Present

By reducing a pivotal Central Asian republic to a mere historical footnote of Mughal genealogy, Owaisi’s rhetoric was both intellectually shallow...

07.09.2026 30

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Kamal Madishetty

Right Word | How Ladakh's New Lifelines Can End Its Isolation

Right Word | How Ladakh's New Lifelines Can End Its Isolation

Administration data cited in August 2026 states that the total road length has grown from 1,799 km in 2019 to over 4,200 km, while the number of...

07.09.2026 40

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Arun Anand

Opinion: What’s Common Between The Bayeux Tapestry And Vrindavan Vastra?

Opinion: What’s Common Between The Bayeux Tapestry And Vrindavan Vastra?

The British Museum has stayed mum on all the treasures from around the world that it retains, claiming a law prevents their repatriation

06.09.2026 30

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion: Why India Under PM Modi Averted A Major Caste Showdown Despite Opponents’ Attempts

Opinion: Why India Under PM Modi Averted A Major Caste Showdown Despite Opponents’ Attempts

Since British rule, caste has been cynically exploited as a fault line to divide the Hindu majority of Bharat and push one’s agenda

06.09.2026 20

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion: A ‘Dead Economy’ Growing At 7.8%

Opinion: A ‘Dead Economy’ Growing At 7.8%

There is a simple test for whether an economy is dead. Take its four engines one at a time: household spending, investment, public building, exports

06.09.2026 20

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Siddhartha Chepuri

The Accountability Gap: India Builds The AI, But Who Answers For It?

The Accountability Gap: India Builds The AI, But Who Answers For It?

Distributed AI systems create an accountability gap due to fragmented ownership across global teams, infrastructure, and data.

06.09.2026 20

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Aditya Vikram Kashyap

Opinion | The Gulf Is Calling: India’s Moment To Move From Presence To Strategic Power

Opinion | The Gulf Is Calling: India’s Moment To Move From Presence To Strategic Power

India's economic expansion, energy security, maritime commerce and the welfare of millions of Indian citizens are directly connected to the stability...

05.09.2026 30

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Prosenjit Nath

Global Watch | China’s Himalayan Information Gap: How Floods In Nepal Exposed Beijing

Global Watch | China’s Himalayan Information Gap: How Floods In Nepal Exposed Beijing

China shared weather warnings before the disaster, but the floods exposed a deeper gap in real-time hazard data from across the Tibetan frontier.

05.09.2026 30

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Arun Anand

Opinion | RSS’s Hindutva Test: How Mohan Bhagwat’s New York Speech Has Exposed Fault Lines On Both Left & Right

Opinion | RSS’s Hindutva Test: How Mohan Bhagwat’s New York Speech Has Exposed Fault Lines On Both Left & Right

By trying to silence him, Bhagwat's opponents have ensured that his most inconvenient sentence, that Muslims belong in Bharat, is now the sentence...

05.09.2026 30

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Adit Kothari

Opinion | Nailing The 'Statistical Lies' Of Subhash Garg On GDP

The 7.8% print is not an isolated instance. It follows a 7.7% GDP growth witnessed in FY26, which itself was an acceleration from the 7.1% growth seen...

04.09.2026 30

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | Krishna In The Gulf: How Modi Made Temples Part Of India's Diplomacy

Hindu places of worship serve energy supply, remittances, trade targets and election messaging, all at once

04.09.2026 30

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | Decoding The Importance Of PM Modi’s Uranium Diplomacy In India’s Nuclear Energy Target

The equation is straightforward: secure the uranium, build the reactors, generate reliable clean power, reduce vulnerability to fossil-fuel shocks and...

04.09.2026 30

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Bharat’s Diplomatic Moment: From Strategic Autonomy To Civilisational Leadership

PM Modi’s engagement with Putin and Pezeshkian demonstrates why a confident Bharat must speak to every side, not as a camp follower, but as an...

04.09.2026 20

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Jauhar Was Not Surrender, It Was Medieval Women Defying Their Invaders

It is easy to pick random historical nuggets and scream “patriarchy”, but the reality of the jawhar tradition is a lot more nuanced.

03.09.2026 10

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Nandini Sengupta

Opinion | How Myanmar’s Crystal Meth Is Upsetting India’s Strategic Calculus

The northeastern states of Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland are facing acute frontline exposure to a surge in illicit drug production from Myanmar.

03.09.2026 20

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Dr G Shreekumar Menon

Opinion | Why A Former Finance Secretary’s ‘GDP Manipulation’ Narrative Doesn’t Add Up

Subhash Chandra Garg said India’s 7.8% GDP growth was inflated by marking down last year’s base, but a statistical audit of the official data...

03.09.2026 30

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K Yatish Rajawat

Opinion | Manu And Moral Presentism: The Safest Book To Hate In India

The real test of progress is not how loudly we condemn a book that nobody follows, but whether we are willing to question ideas that continue to...

02.09.2026 30

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Prajesh Panikkar

Opinion | Reel Deal: Have we Forgotten How To Disagree Without Picking A Side?

From Kriti Sanon’s Raksha Bandhan ad controversy to Taapsee Pannu and Kangana Ranaut’s latest exchange, why every Bollywood disagreement now...

01.09.2026 20

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Tavishi Paitandy

Opinion | Modi's 'Make In India' Vs Rahul's 'Fake In India'

The 'base year' narrative that is now being spuriously peddled by Rahul Gandhi and his cabal is just an attempt to undermine Modinomics

01.09.2026 30

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Sanju Verma

Opinion: For Viksit Bharat, Rethink The Civil Services Examination

The road to administrative reform begins not at the end of a civil servant’s career, but at the examination hall where that career begins

01.09.2026 20

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Kamal Madishetty

Opinion | PM Modi Opens Up The Missile Business: How India's Private Sector Is A Force Multiplier

India's defence exports reached ₹38,424 crore in FY2025-26, up more than 62 percent over the previous year

01.09.2026 10

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | Two Wars And A Hamstrung SCO

The statement signed by the SCO in September had defended the country that bore the brunt of the war, but it did little to stop the conflict.

31.08.2026 20

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | India-Russia 2.0: From Strategic Friendship To Partnership For A Multipolar World

As geopolitics turns more transactional, India and Russia are expanding ties beyond defence and energy into trade, technology, connectivity and...

31.08.2026 30

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Nepal Stopping Sikh NGO Isn’t Personal; Its Laws Pre-empt Predatory Foreign Aid

Nepal is absolutely right in wanting to defend its sovereignty and demographic sanctity, which have been both callously and deliberately violated...

31.08.2026 30

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Can The Generations Born In 1960s, 1970s Still Lead? A Puzzle For Gen Z

In an age of accelerating change, the greatest threat to leadership may not be lack of experience but it may be experience that refuses to evolve

31.08.2026 10

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Lt Gen Devendra Pandey

Global Watch | Nepal's Himalayan Disaster Puts China's Mega-Dam Ambitions Under Fresh Scrutiny

China's latest undertaking is the enormous hydropower development on Yarlung Zangbo - the river that becomes the Brahmaputra after entering India and...

31.08.2026 30

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Bhagwat In New York: Celebrating Hindu Universalism, Exposing Mamdani’s Smallness

With his universalist appeal of Sanatan Dharma, Bhagwat exposed Mamdani’s own exclusionary, Islamist-adjacent politics

31.08.2026 30

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | India’s EV Revolution Starts In The Basement

Public charging stations get most of the attention. But for millions of urban Indians, the more consequential question is whether they can charge a...

30.08.2026 30

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Anuj Gupta

Opinion | Territorial Army 2.0: Building India's Military Reserve For Next War

Doctrine, command integration and sustained investment will determine whether Territorial Army 2.0 becomes a genuine force multiplier or remains a...

30.08.2026 10

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | 100 Days Of Suvendu Sarkar: Carrots And Sticks Fly At Breathless Speed

West Bengal under Suvendu Adhikari is taking up policy reforms and ground action almost daily. Something that the state has seldom seen in the last 49...

29.08.2026 30

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Why Penguin’s ‘Random’ Decision On Sonia Gandhi’s Memoir Makes No Sense

Her political journey has perhaps only one parallel worldwide; whatever she says in the book, it is bound to sell well anyway.

29.08.2026 30

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Reshmi Dasgupta