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Getting R.I.D. Of The Right: Why Civilisation Cannot Be Defended Part-Time

yesterday 10

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Hari Vadlamani

India's Best Chemistry Textbooks Come From The Coaching Market, Not Its Universities

The best chemistry textbook writing in India today is happening in the coaching market rather than in our universities, for reasons that have nothing...

yesterday 10

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Sameer Saurav

Could Tiny Schools Be The Next Big Thing In Indian Education? The Story Of India's Micro School Evolution

yesterday 50

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Aditi Rane

Satyameva Jayate, Elon: Truth Alone Triumphs

14.10.2026 7

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Madhusudhan Chellappa

Lessons We Can Learn From The Philanthropy Of Ashish Dhawan

08.10.2026 10

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Hari Vadlamani

Should The IITs Have Humanities Departments At All?

With the protests over the suicide of a second-year BTech student, Sahil Wakode, at IIT Bombay, a tangential argument resurfaced: whether the IITs...

02.10.2026 30

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Nishtha Anushree

From Paper Leaks To Public Infrastructure: Building India’s National Assessment Stack

Every crisis reaches a point where asking who failed becomes less important than asking what must change. India’s examination crisis has reached...

01.10.2026 10

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Surabhi Hodigere

The Words A Civilisation Preserves, And The Words It Weaponises

01.10.2026 10

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V Ramanathan

Why Rural India Still Can't Get An Eye Test

01.10.2026 10

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Samridh Joshi

The Early Modernisation Of Japan

01.10.2026 20

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Aryamsa

Who Shows India, And How, Is No Longer Decided In India

R.K. Studios in Chembur, the Mumbai lot Raj Kapoor built in 1948 and where much of the most famous Hindi cinema of the fifties and sixties was shot,...

01.10.2026 10

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Aryaman Sharma

Noah's Ark Was Never A Boat To Be Found. It Is A Planet To Be Saved.

It was October of 1959. Captain Ilhan Durupinar, a diligent cartographer for the Turkish Air Force, was hunched over a stereoscope, meticulously...

01.10.2026 10

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Aravindan Neelakandan

The Proofs Historians Said Indian Mathematics Lacked

In December 1832, the Royal Asiatic Society in London heard a remarkable paper from a civil servant of the East India Company. Charles Matthew Whish...

01.10.2026 20

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R S Hariharan

Adani's ₹100 Crore Signal: Will Other Billionaires Follow?

01.10.2026 20

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Hari Vadlamani

The Geopolitical Storm Is Closer Than India Thinks, It Must Prepare To Hit Back At Economic Coercion

Storm clouds are gathering over the Indian political economy, both internally and externally. The external clouds are more obvious, with rising energy...

01.10.2026 20

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R Jagannathan

The Only Way To Improve Politics Is By Talking Less About It

10.09.2026 10

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Aditya Chauhan

Airlifting The Exams

The Indian Air Force may soon be transporting NEET-UG question papers across the country. That sentence is not satire. Following his press conference,...

30.05.2026 80

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Siddharaja jayasimha