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Opinion | Oil, Not Order: The Real Motive Behind America’s Global Strong-Arm Tactics

While Somali pirates’ measures are downright despicable as being daylight dacoity and robbery, POTUS Trump’s are not far removed from coercive

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S Murlidharan

Opinion | Devendra Fadnavis And The Maharashtra Model

Opinion | Devendra Fadnavis And The Maharashtra Model

Devendra Fadnavis's true legacy lies in his role as Maharashtra's 'Infrastructure Man'

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Aditya Pittie

Opinion | Bollywood: Will The Industry Fulfill Its Promises?

Several major films will be released by the time April ends. A few among them must succeed, partly because 2025 wasn’t a great year for the industry

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Biswadeep Ghosh

Opinion | From Honour To Silence: Shame As A Tool of Social Control

Opinion | From Honour To Silence: Shame As A Tool of Social Control

Recognising how shame operates as a mechanism of social control is essential, because it reveals the invisible template of life we are...

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Yashee Jha

Book Review | The Sari Eternal: How A Single Drape Wove India’s Civilisational Story

Book Review | The Sari Eternal: How A Single Drape Wove India’s Civilisational Story

Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri’s book is a lyrical meditation on the sari as history, aesthetics and feminine assertion

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Pragati Pandey

Akhil Vaani | Maha Tsunami In Maharashtra: BJP Party No. 1, Fadnavis Bazigar No. 1

As the BJP prepares for assembly elections in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala, it is a wake-up call for the opposition parties

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Akhileshwar Sahay

Opinion | Chabahar At The Crossroads: India’s Strategic Patience In An Unforgiving Neighbourhood

Opinion | Chabahar At The Crossroads: India’s Strategic Patience In An Unforgiving Neighbourhood

India has been categorical on one point: walking away from Chabahar is not an option

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Griha Atul

Opinion | Why Sri Aurobindo’s Uttarpara Speech Is So Relevant In West Bengal Today

Opinion | Why Sri Aurobindo’s Uttarpara Speech Is So Relevant In West Bengal Today

West Bengal seems to have forgotten its profound spiritual legacy from which sprung its fierce nationalistic instincts.

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Abhijit Majumder

Global Watch | From Newsrooms To Courtrooms: Pakistan’s Media Under Military Rule

Global Watch | From Newsrooms To Courtrooms: Pakistan’s Media Under Military Rule

Gen Asim Munir may currently hold all the levers of power, but history offers a sobering lesson: Authority sustained through repression rarely...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Why Are Allies BJP And TIPRA Motha At Loggerheads?

Opinion | Why Are Allies BJP And TIPRA Motha At Loggerheads?

Whatever may be the reasons for this current rift between the two allies, this is creating a negative image about the state government

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Sagarneel Sinha

Opinion | Old Roots, New Bonds: Why Germany And India Matter More To Each Other Now

Opinion | Old Roots, New Bonds: Why Germany And India Matter More To Each Other Now

Strategic autonomy, much invoked in Delhi and Berlin alike amid Trumpian disruptions, has common practical content

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Ninad D Sheth

Opinion | Why The Thackeray Legacy Faces Threat Of Extinction After BMC Rout

Opinion | Why The Thackeray Legacy Faces Threat Of Extinction After BMC Rout

The results conclusively prove that Maharashtrians no longer look at the Thackerays as their representative voice

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Abhijit Majumder

India-EU FTA Ready? Why Europe Is Betting Big On India In The Trump Era | Finepoint

India's free trade deal with the European Union is set to come to fruition with Trump’s aggression playing the catalyst.

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Shubhangi Sharma

Opinion | Withdrawal Under Treaty Law: USA's Exit From Solar Alliance & India's Role

India plays a key role in shaping the ISA’s policy direction, facilitating capacity-building, mobilising solar finance, and strengthening...

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Abhinav Mehrotra And Dr Biswanath Gupta

Opinion | Winning As Ego Structure: Presidential Psychology & The Trump-Modi Trade Impasse

Opinion | Winning As Ego Structure: Presidential Psychology & The Trump-Modi Trade Impasse

Today, as leadership becomes more personal, the biggest danger in diplomacy is thinking everyone sees power and winning the same way

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Brigadier Anil Raman

Opinion | VB-G RAM G: Laying The Foundations Of Viksit Bharat

Opinion | VB-G RAM G: Laying The Foundations Of Viksit Bharat

The new scheme promises a comprehensive overhaul, leading to fundamental empowerment and long-term, sustainable transformation at the grassroots

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Anirban Ganguly

Opinion | The Fire Next Door And The House Of Straw: Pakistan's Iran Dilemma

Opinion | The Fire Next Door And The House Of Straw: Pakistan's Iran Dilemma

Pakistan’s decades-long strategy of playing all sides is collapsing under the weight of a world that no longer allows fence-sitting

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Griha Atul

Opinion | Why Iran Will Have To Change — But Not The Way America And Israel Imagine

Opinion | Why Iran Will Have To Change — But Not The Way America And Israel Imagine

The Ayatollahs will not rule Iran indefinitely. No political system does. But their end will not come through airstrikes or externally...

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Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain

Opinion | Protests, Propaganda & Power: The New Frontiers Of India’s Internal Security Challenge

Opinion | Protests, Propaganda & Power: The New Frontiers Of India’s Internal Security Challenge

In the age of almost free access to social media, the noise around every issue serves as fuel for young minds to embody activism as purpose rather...

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Sagorika Sinha

Opinion | BMC Polls: More Than A City’s Mandate That India Needs To Track

Opinion | BMC Polls: More Than A City’s Mandate That India Needs To Track

Mumbai’s municipal ballot carries consequences far beyond the city. It touches the health of India’s democratic ecosystem

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Rahul Shivshankar

Army Day Reckoning: Operation Sindoor And India’s New Pakistan Doctrine

Army Day Reckoning: Operation Sindoor And India’s New Pakistan Doctrine

For the first time since 1971, India struck across the international border in direct retaliation for a terror attack with Operation Sindoor.

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Opinion | Beyond Tariffs And Treaties: The Case For India’s Next Economic Leap

Opinion | Beyond Tariffs And Treaties: The Case For India’s Next Economic Leap

This is one of the best times for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to usher in radical change

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Sandip Ghose

Opinion | Greenland: The Cold Island At The Hot Centre Of Geopolitics

Opinion | Greenland: The Cold Island At The Hot Centre Of Geopolitics

At the centre is US President Donald Trump’s renewed campaign to bring Greenland under American control

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Griha Atul

Opinion | Why Are There No Eyes On Iran?

Opinion | Why Are There No Eyes On Iran?

The Islamic Republic has been witnessing unprecedented protests led by Iran’s Gen Z

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Roshni Sengupta

Outrage In Hounslow: Sikh Teenager Gangraped By Six Pakistani Men Sparks Grooming Concerns In UK | Exclusive

Outrage In Hounslow: Sikh Teenager Gangraped By Six Pakistani Men Sparks Grooming Concerns In UK | Exclusive

The assault involved up to six perpetrators, described as part of a grooming gang, who exploited the teenager's vulnerability through deception and...

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Manoj Gupta

Opinion | Smoking Poster-Girl Of Iran To Rowling's Rebels: Imagining Symbols Of Resistance

In the Harry Potter books, Rowling’s own characters Fred and George could have perfectly blended in today’s Iran.

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Why 2026 Union Budget Will Be Pathbreaking

Opinion | Why 2026 Union Budget Will Be Pathbreaking

This budget promises to be a cornerstone in realising the vision of Viksit Bharat by 2047 - a developed India that stands as a global economic...

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Sanju Verma

Right Word | Somnath After 1,000 Years: Time To Reassess Manipulated Cultural Narrative Of ‘Sufism’

Right Word | Somnath After 1,000 Years: Time To Reassess Manipulated Cultural Narrative Of ‘Sufism’

The Somnath Swabhiman Parv, commemorating 1,000 years since Mahmud of Ghazni’s 1026 invasion and destruction of the Somnath temple, was more than a...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Can Sergio Gor Resuscitate India-US Ties?

Opinion | Can Sergio Gor Resuscitate India-US Ties?

The 50% tariff on selected Indian goods must be immediately and unilaterally abolished, recognised as an error, and India must be compensated for...

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Pariksith Singh