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Cannabis Shift

The recent executive order to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug represents a historic recalibration of drug policy in...

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New Delhi

Vision that resonates

At a time when nationalism is once again hardening into moral certainty, and violence is routinely justified in the name of history, identity, or...

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Abhik Roy New Delhi

Denying fuel won’t give us clean air

From December 18 onwards, a Delhi commuter may pull into a petrol pump as usual, only to be silently refused fuel: no argument, no explanation, no...

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Shrey Madaan New Delhi

Nature should be mankind’s temple

As I stood watching the overwhelming rush of people gathere d for religious rituals in many temples, what struck me most was not devotion, but the...

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Debapriya Mukherjee New Delhi

Cautious Solidarity

Europe’s decision to extend a Euro 90 billion loan to Ukraine, while stopping short of using frozen Russian assets, reveals a European Union that...

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New Delhi

Citizenship on Trial

The forced removal of a pregnant Indian citizen to Bangladesh on mere suspicion exposes a dangerous erosion of due process at the heart of the...

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Macaulay today

Thomas Babington Macaulay’s 1835 “Minute on Indian Education” is a short text that has cast a long shadow over debates about language,...

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Amal Chandra New Delhi

Ill winds blow in B’desh

The death of Sharif Osman Hadi in Singapore, where he had been taken for treatment after being shot in an assassination attempt, resulted in...

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Harsha Kakar New Delhi

Measured Relief

The latest inflation numbers from the United States offer a moment of relief in a debate that has been politically charged and economically fraught...

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New Delhi

India and the AI moment

When Time magazine announce d the “Architects of AI” as its Person of the Year for 2025, the world paused to acknowledge a historic turning point....

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Santhosh Mathew New Delhi

Everest in Peril

The Himalayas, long revered for their sublime beauty and spiritual significance, are under siege ~ not by avalanches or blizzards, but by human...

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New Delhi

Export Rebalance

India’s export map is quietly, but decisively, being redrawn. Recent data reveals a geographic rebalancing that goes beyond year-on-year...

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New Delhi

Employment for Youth

Much before acquiring skill and experience many individuals participate in the job market at a young age. A large majority of the youth end up in...

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Arup Mitra Kolkata

Empowered but powerless

In 1993, the 73rd Constitutional Amendment was hailed as the dawn of Gram Swaraj – village self-rule rooted in democratic decentralisation. The...

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Pravin Kaushal New Delhi

Why aviation crisis caused a meltdown

Every few years, India gets a reminder of just how fragile its aviation ecosystem really is. This time, it took a week-long meltdown at IndiGo a...

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Shrey Madaan New Delhi

Perilous Spectacle

The digital age has transformed recognition and fame into commodities measured in likes, shares, and fleeting moments of virality. What once...

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S. S. Saxena New Delhi

The First Ten

Pandemics do not begin with sirens or headlines. They begin with a cough that goes unreported, a fever mistaken for exhaustion, a worker who does...

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New Delhi

Unequal Gains

India’s wealth story is increasingly told through a confusing set of headlines. On the one hand, the country is adding new dollar-millionaires at a...

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New Delhi

Political will can solve inequality

Widening disparities in income and wealth both within and across countries have become among the most pressing global challenges of our time. As...

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Amit Kapoor And Mukul Anand New Delhi

Monk and revolutionary

Bengal has long been a land of dualities, a unique soil that nurtured the spiritual fire of Swami Vivekananda and, decades later, became a...

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Sindhunil Barman Roy New Delhi

Silent Emergency

India’s roads kill with a predictability that should shame a modern state. Day after day, lives are lost not in dramatic, singular catastrophes but...

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New Delhi

Rationing a Right

India’s rural employment story is not merely about jobs or budgets; it is about how the Indian state defines its obligations to its poorest...

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New Delhi

Secret to Longevity

For the past three years in a row ~ 2023, 2024, and now 2025 ~ my travels across Italy, from the sun-washed lanes of Puglia to the Renaissance...

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Abhik Roy New Delhi