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Opinion | When Street Power Turns On Itself

Opinion | When Street Power Turns On Itself

Villagers in Rajasthan confronted a CJP team on Friday and stopped them from continuing with their school inspection

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | Dimagi Naxalism: When Dissent Turns Into A Search For Violence And Disorder

Opinion | Dimagi Naxalism: When Dissent Turns Into A Search For Violence And Disorder

A democracy must be able to distinguish between disagreement and the systematic glorification of destructive politics

yesterday 10

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Insulated By The Sun: Modi's Renewable Push Shielded India From Global Energy Crisis

Opinion | Insulated By The Sun: Modi's Renewable Push Shielded India From Global Energy Crisis

This is the return on a decade-long wager on renewable power, delivering on the foundations laid by the Modi government

yesterday 10

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | PM-CARES—Facts Vs Propaganda

Opinion | PM-CARES—Facts Vs Propaganda

PM-CARES Fund was designed as a specialised instrument for public emergencies and distress situations, deliberately distinct from the older, more...

previous day 10

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | The Problem Isn’t Gen Z. It’s The Entitlement Some People Have Borrowed From Gen Z Activism

Opinion | The Problem Isn’t Gen Z. It’s The Entitlement Some People Have Borrowed From Gen Z Activism

Gen Z’s willingness to speak up is a strength. But confidence without perspective can quickly become entitlement.

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Mallika Bhagat

Opinion | Decoding The Modern-Day 'Dimagi Naxal'

Opinion | Decoding The Modern-Day 'Dimagi Naxal'

PM Modi's "Dimagi Naxal" concept describes an ideological ecosystem that delegitimizes the Indian State, obstructs development, and romanticizes...

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Sabarimala: The Problem With Imposed Reform

Opinion | Sabarimala: The Problem With Imposed Reform

Lasting change in matters of faith is unlikely to come through coercion. It has to emerge from within the tradition itself.

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Prajesh Panikkar

Global Watch | Can Diplomacy Be A Substitute For Economic Mismanagement In Pakistan?

Global Watch | Can Diplomacy Be A Substitute For Economic Mismanagement In Pakistan?

Pakistan’s diplomatic influence is growing, but whether it can translate that into economic strength without deeper political and institutional...

previous day 20

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Arun Anand

Opinion | India’s Physical AI Moment: Why Robots Could Define The Next Startup Revolution

Opinion | India’s Physical AI Moment: Why Robots Could Define The Next Startup Revolution

From software-led innovation to intelligent machines in the real world, India is beginning to build the technological foundations of a new industrial...

wednesday 9

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Balochistan Is Redrawing The Golden Crescent: Why India Should Worry

Opinion | Balochistan Is Redrawing The Golden Crescent: Why India Should Worry

The Golden Crescent, an opium-producing region spanning Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, is seeing Balochistan emerge as a key hub for cultivation and...

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Dr G Shreekumar Menon

Right Word | Shadow Games Across The Border: Petrol Bombs, Youth And Hidden Cost Of Easy Temptation

Right Word | Shadow Games Across The Border: Petrol Bombs, Youth And Hidden Cost Of Easy Temptation

Punjab is seeing a rise in low-intensity attacks linked to Pakistan-based handlers, with young men lured by quick money into terror networks & left to...

wednesday 20

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Arun Anand

Opinion | The Scale Of NTA's Task & Its Response When Anomalies Arise: The Other Side Of The Story

Opinion | The Scale Of NTA's Task & Its Response When Anomalies Arise: The Other Side Of The Story

NTA's combination of scale, vigilance, and accountability is the case for confidence in the process, not against it.

18.08.2026 8

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Amitabh Sinha

Opinion: UPI Did Not Kill the Tollbooth, It Moved It

Opinion: UPI Did Not Kill the Tollbooth, It Moved It

UPI's real achievement is not that it made one layer nearly free. It is that it made the location, ownership and legitimacy of the tollbooth...

16.08.2026 10

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Aditya Vikram Kashyap

Opinion: ‘Dimagi Naxal’ Is PM Modi’s Pre-Emptive Strike Against Agents Of Anarchy

Opinion: ‘Dimagi Naxal’ Is PM Modi’s Pre-Emptive Strike Against Agents Of Anarchy

“Dimagi Naxal” is a crisp, intuitive term which gives great ideological clarity to ordinary Indians. By using it from Red Fort, Modi is calling...

16.08.2026 30

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | A Block Is Never Just a Block: What Nursery Children Teach Us About Learning Through Play

Opinion | A Block Is Never Just a Block: What Nursery Children Teach Us About Learning Through Play

Planned learning should remain open to the questions, interests and experiences children bring into it

15.08.2026 20

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Vaishali Sharma

Opinion | The Freedom To Choose: Modi’s I-Day Speech And India’s Case For A Multipolar World

Opinion | The Freedom To Choose: Modi’s I-Day Speech And India’s Case For A Multipolar World

As global rivalries sharpen, India is trying to ensure that no single power can dictate its choices by building more capacity and more alternatives.

15.08.2026 30

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Sohil Sinha

Independence At 80: Building The Military For Viksit Bharat 2047

Independence At 80: Building The Military For Viksit Bharat 2047

Indian defence planning has usually been reactive. Buy what the last war exposed as missing, patch the gap, move on.

15.08.2026 20

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | Modi's 'Next Leap': Is This India’s Great Leap Forward?

Opinion | Modi's 'Next Leap': Is This India’s Great Leap Forward?

Modi’s call for India to take 'the next leap' inevitably invites comparison with Mao’s Great Leap Forward, even though the two visions are...

15.08.2026 20

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | Can Tarique Rahman Seize A Historic Moment To Reset India Ties, Rebuild Bangladesh?

Opinion | Can Tarique Rahman Seize A Historic Moment To Reset India Ties, Rebuild Bangladesh?

The Bangladesh PM faces pressure from Jamaat, a weakening economy and strained India ties. A reset with New Delhi could offer a crucial political and...

15.08.2026 20

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | From Red Corridor To Red Carpet: How India Transformed Its Naxal-Affected Hinterland

Opinion | From Red Corridor To Red Carpet: How India Transformed Its Naxal-Affected Hinterland

The real measure of victory over an insurgency is not simply how many guns have fallen silent. It is whether people who once had no alternative can...

15.08.2026 30

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Kamal Madishetty

Opinion | Azaadi At 80: Gen-Z Cannot Afford To Forget What India Fought For

Opinion | Azaadi At 80: Gen-Z Cannot Afford To Forget What India Fought For

Gen-Z could do well to re-acquaint itself with the thoughts of the intellectual architects of Indian nationalism

14.08.2026 20

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | Why The 'Con Don' Arday Got Away With Fooling The Smart

Opinion | Why The 'Con Don' Arday Got Away With Fooling The Smart

Because affirmative action without proper safeguards and standards even afflicted a top university like Cambridge

14.08.2026 20

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion | Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: India Must Remember The Right People

Opinion | Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: India Must Remember The Right People

Remembrance cannot be reduced to mourning the dead; it must also compel us to decide whose legacies deserve to be preserved in our public memory

14.08.2026 7

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | The Next Chapter of Freedom: Data, Dignity, and Women’s Rights

Opinion | The Next Chapter of Freedom: Data, Dignity, and Women’s Rights

Political freedom is only the beginning. For millions of Indian women, true freedom still depends on access, opportunity, safety and the power to make...

13.08.2026 10

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Poonam Muttreja

Opinion | Bangabandhu Means Bangladesh: Why August 15 Cannot Be Erased From Its History

Opinion | Bangabandhu Means Bangladesh: Why August 15 Cannot Be Erased From Its History

Today Bangabandhu is not just a name. He is an inseparable symbol of Bangladesh’s independence

13.08.2026 8

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Noyon Biswas Rocky

Straight Talk | The Outrage Economy: How Meta’s Algorithms Manipulate Young India

Straight Talk | The Outrage Economy: How Meta’s Algorithms Manipulate Young India

Meta’s admission that money can boost content raises a bigger question: who decides what young Indians see online—and what happens to protests the...

13.08.2026 20

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Opinion | Partition Horrors: 1947 Must Not Be Forgotten; It Must Be Understood

Opinion | Partition Horrors: 1947 Must Not Be Forgotten; It Must Be Understood

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken up the responsibility of preserving this pain and history and connecting future generations with it

12.08.2026 20

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Yatendra Sharma

Opinion: Is Tamil Nadu CM Vijay’s TVK Pushing A ‘Christianity First’ Agenda?

Opinion: Is Tamil Nadu CM Vijay’s TVK Pushing A ‘Christianity First’ Agenda?

Religion should not become the next fault line in Tamil Nadu’s politics

12.08.2026 20

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | Soft Hindutva, Hard Double Standards: The Kerala Story

Opinion | Soft Hindutva, Hard Double Standards: The Kerala Story

The real test for both LDF and UDF is not how convincingly they can invoke secularism or condemn Hindutva, but whether they can apply the same...

12.08.2026 10

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Prajesh Panikkar

Global Watch | One Territory, Two Claims: Why India Holds The Stronger Position In Arunachal Pradesh

Global Watch | One Territory, Two Claims: Why India Holds The Stronger Position In Arunachal Pradesh

India placed standard names for 27 locations and geographical features in Arunachal Pradesh on the official Survey of India map.

12.08.2026 20

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Arun Anand

Opinion: Make In India, Making For The World

Opinion: Make In India, Making For The World

The journey continues, but the success story from making chips to ships thus far is already substantial and measurable in hard numbers, in an ode to...

11.08.2026 10

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | When Software Becomes A Counterparty

Opinion | When Software Becomes A Counterparty

As AI shifts from questions to actions, software is becoming a delegated actor. The next challenge is not intelligence, but proving who authorised it...

11.08.2026 10

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Aditya Vikram Kashyap

From Azul To Fine Shyt: Guru Randhawa's Women Are Still Just Props

A year after the controversy around 'Azul', Guru Randhawa's latest release is again prompting questions about how women are portrayed in his music...

10.08.2026 8

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Mallika Bhagat

Opinion | FCRA: India’s Firewall Against Foreign Influence

Democracy requires freedom of expression. But democracy also requires knowledge of who is financing influence. That is where FCRA assumes...

10.08.2026 40

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Prosenjit Nath

Right Word | FCRA Amendment Bill, 2026: A Reform India Needed

Every sovereign state regulates foreign money that flows into its political and social life, and India is entitled to do the same

10.08.2026 40

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Arun Anand

Opinion: Five Reasons Why BJP Is Faced With An Urban Youth Disconnect

If there is one party that can be nimble-footed despite its elephantine size in recovering lost ground and getting vulnerable-to-be-misled youngsters...

09.08.2026 30

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Abhijit Majumder

Write Mind | (Part- 2) Two Gen Zs. One Bharat. Choose Your Narrative Carefully

Gen Z of Bharat does not need more hashtags. It needs the civilisational confidence to look at imported frameworks and say, without hesitation or...

09.08.2026 30

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Yuvraj Pokharna

The Maha Picture | Pressure Without Power: Can CJP Change Politics Without Entering Politics?

If the CJP genuinely believes India’s political system requires structural change, refusing to become part of that system may ultimately become its...

08.08.2026 30

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Mayuresh Ganapatye

Opinion | How Modi And Bhagwat Wrongfooted The Political Arthropods

The agitation unwittingly gave the duo the opportunity to communicate their real views and attitudes to India’s youth and dispel the propaganda

08.08.2026 20

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Write Mind | (Part- 1) Two Gen Zs. One Bharat. Choose Your Narrative Carefully

An uninformed generation is a national security risk. But an informed, rooted, civilisationally grounded one? That is not a risk. That is Bharat’s...

07.08.2026 20

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Yuvraj Pokharna

Global Watch | Two Years After ‘Uprising’, Bangladesh’s Political Future Remains Uncertain

Bangladesh’s present political fate faces profound challenges

07.08.2026 30

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Uttar Pradesh 2047: Three Development Forces That Can Uplift 240 Million Lives

The 3Is of Investment, Industry, and Infrastructure would be foundational for this economic transformation to take flight

07.08.2026 10

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Abhishek Saurav

Opinion | 6 Years Of Manoj Sinha: The Lieutenant Governor Who Turned Raj Bhawan Into Lok Bhawan

In a region where trust has always been the scarcest commodity, that may well be Manoj Sinha's most enduring legacy.

07.08.2026 30

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Opinion | Is The Sangh Parivar Out Of Touch With Gen Z?

Mohan Bhagwat has created an important opportunity for the entire Sangh to open a bridge to Gen Z

06.08.2026 30

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | Asim Munir's Expanding Clout: Is Pakistan On The Brink Of Another Coup?

A minister's remarks on Pakistan's 'collapsed' system have fuelled speculation over military dominance, provincial reorganisation and Asim Munir's...

06.08.2026 10

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Maninder Gill

Opinion | Crowds, Contagion, And The Feed That Never Lets A Protest Cool Down

From Jantar Mantar to millions of phone screens, the CJP protests show how crowds, algorithms and doomscrolling shape emotions, outrage and political...

06.08.2026 10

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Adrija Parashar

Street Power Vs State Might: Crackdown Escalates As PTI Marks Three Years Of Imran Khan’s Arrest In Pakistan | Exclusive

The state response reached a flashpoint in Lahore, where a heavy police force halted a peaceful rally outside the Ewan-e-Adl court complex

05.08.2026 30

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Manoj Gupta

6 Router Settings You Should Check For Faster WiFi

A slow WiFi connection often comes down to router settings rather than your internet plan, and a few quick changes can noticeably improve speed.

05.08.2026 20

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Mayank Jha

Pakistan's Rukhsar Ahmed Wins PoK Poll Despite Being On UK Police Bail In Child Rape Case

Rukhsar Ahmed, recently re-elected in Pakistan, is on UK police bail over alleged child rape and trafficking linked to 1990s Manchester.

05.08.2026 20

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Pragya Bahuguna

Hyderabad: Eight private colleges booked for submitting fake fire NOCs

Hyderabad: Eight private colleges booked for submitting fake fire NOCs Hyderabad, Aug 5 (PTI) A case was registered here against eight private...

05.08.2026 20

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Pti