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Opinion | Nepal Flood, India's Worry: Curse Of Lower Riparian States

Opinion | Nepal Flood, India's Worry: Curse Of Lower Riparian States

The Nepal floods are therefore a reminder that, given that India is downstream of both Nepal and China, it cannot afford to be unprepared for what...

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | India's Sports Supremacy Over Pakistan Reflects Political, Economic Trajectory Of Two Nations

Opinion | India's Sports Supremacy Over Pakistan Reflects Political, Economic Trajectory Of Two Nations

A cursory look at the outcomes of matches in the last 10 years tell a story of a country in rise and its neighbour in sharp decline.

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Abhijit Majumder

Book Excerpt: How Gopal Patha Avenged Blood With Blood On Direct Action Day

Book Excerpt: How Gopal Patha Avenged Blood With Blood On Direct Action Day

The untold story of meat-shop owner Gopal ‘Patha’ Mukherjee, who saved thousands of lives and stopped Kolkata from becoming part of East Pakistan.

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Debdutta Bhattacharjee

Opinion | The Rage-Bait Economy: When 15 Seconds Of Notoriety Becomes Permanent Record

Opinion | The Rage-Bait Economy: When 15 Seconds Of Notoriety Becomes Permanent Record

The culture of outrage that social media has lovingly fostered has birthed an entire subculture of rage-baiting

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Nandini Sengupta

Opinion | No Room At The Top

Opinion | No Room At The Top

When a hotel room costs more than a small car, hospitality inflation becomes an infrastructure warning

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Sundeep Bhutoria

Opinion | The Islam Kerala Built & The Islam It Is Importing: When Conservatism Comes Home

Opinion | The Islam Kerala Built & The Islam It Is Importing: When Conservatism Comes Home

The World Bank paper does not prove that such a cultural shift has already taken place. But it does provide reason to ask whether social norms in...

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Prajesh Panikkar

Right Word | Decoding ‘Hindu Nationalism’: How Selective Frameworks Misinterpret It

Right Word | Decoding ‘Hindu Nationalism’: How Selective Frameworks Misinterpret It

Viewing Hindu nationalism through selective analytical frameworks is a deliberate attempt to reduce an ancient and spiritual civilizational ethos to a...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Time To Spoon Off The Creamy Layer, Make Caste Reservation A Win-Win

Opinion | Time To Spoon Off The Creamy Layer, Make Caste Reservation A Win-Win

If the creamy layer is not spooned off, reservation risks becoming a closed circuit of privilege for those who have already availed reservation.

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Smashing Patriarchy – The Modi Way

Opinion | Smashing Patriarchy – The Modi Way

Since 2014, the Narendra Modi-led government has prioritized “Nari Shakti” through a range of schemes focused on survival, education, health,...

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Sanju Verma

Book Review | From Caviar to Khichdi: A New Book Traces Indian PMs’ Food Preferences Alongside Their Political Journey

Book Review | From Caviar to Khichdi: A New Book Traces Indian PMs’ Food Preferences Alongside Their Political Journey

From Nehru’s cosmopolitan table to Modi’s simple vegetarian fare, ‘The Prime Minister’s Table’ explores the food preferences of India’s...

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Pragati Pandey

Opinion: Why The Modi Government Wants A Stronger Military Space Architecture

Opinion: Why The Modi Government Wants A Stronger Military Space Architecture

Operation Sindoor demonstrated how dependent modern joint operations have become on persistent surveillance, secure communications and rapid...

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | ‘Islamic NATO’ Could Also Influence India-US Ties. Here's How

Opinion | ‘Islamic NATO’ Could Also Influence India-US Ties. Here's How

An emerging ‘Islamic NATO’ could make Delhi more beholden to Washington, potentially narrowing its bargaining power.

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Rahul Shivshankar

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

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Kamal Madishetty

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

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Rahul Shivshankar

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

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Reshmi Dasgupta

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

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Prosenjit Nath

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

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

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Noyon Biswas Rocky

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...

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

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

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Yatendra Sharma

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

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Rahul Shivshankar

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

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

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Arun Anand

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...

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Sanju Verma

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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Mayuresh Ganapatye