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Will the BRICS Summit move towards de-dollarisation?

Will the BRICS Summit move towards de-dollarisation?

As the BRICS summit approaches, all eyes, from stock market players across the world to heads of powerful central banks, would be on any moves by...

yesterday 9

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Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

Priorities for WB’s ailing health system

Priorities for WB’s ailing health system

Having assumed office, the new health minister, Dr Sarwadwat Mukherjee is making sincere efforts to improve the health system in West Bengal. He has...

yesterday 10

The Statesman

Dr Basudeb Dutta

Growth and energy security

Growth and energy security

India’s spectacular 7.8 per cent real GDP growth in Q1 FY27 deserves to be viewed in the context of the extraordinary circumstances in which it was...

yesterday 9

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Tuhin Sinha And Dibyendu Deepak

Mountain without a border ~ II

Mountain without a border ~ II

In the same weeks that the mountain came down, India and China agreed ~ quietly, and to their credit ~ to talk to one another a little more. They...

yesterday 10

The Statesman

T Kannan

Legal Frontiers

Legal Frontiers

Great-power rivalry is usually measured in aircraft carriers, tariffs and missiles. Increasingly, however, one of its most consequential battlefields...

yesterday 20

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Statesman News Service

Demographic Deadline

Demographic Deadline

For decades, India worried about having too many people. Population control, family planning and the spectre of unchecked demographic growth shaped...

yesterday 10

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Statesman News Service

A flood isn’t just a natural disaster

A flood isn’t just a natural disaster

A river does not know the language of development. A mountain does not understand a building permit. A glacier recognises no political boundary, yet...

previous day 2

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Dr Debapriya Mukherjee

Crisis of the commons: Clean air for climate action begins with accountability

Crisis of the commons: Clean air for climate action begins with accountability

Every Sunday morning for the past twelve years, a stretch of road in Gurugram that carries cars the rest of the week has been handed back to people...

previous day 2

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Sarika Panda Bhatt

Mountain without a border ~ I

Mountain without a border ~ I

Somewhere above the line where Nepal ends and Tibet begins, in the last week of August, a mass of ice and the rock it had gripped for centuries let go...

previous day 10

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T Kannan

Bibi’s shadow

Bibi’s shadow

Benjamin Netanyahu’s most consequential electoral victory may not require him to win Israel’s forthcoming parliamentary election. That paradox...

previous day 20

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Statesman News Service

Unsafe Profits

Unsafe Profits

The collapse of building housing students in Delhi’s Satya Niketan should not be treated as another entry in India’s long catalogue of urban...

previous day 10

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Statesman News Service

IWT remains in abeyance

IWT remains in abeyance

The preamble of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), signed on 19 September 1960 between India and Pakistan mentions that it is being done in a “spirit of...

previous day 1

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Harsha Kakar

Silent crisis of our time

Silent crisis of our time

On June 5, I wrote an Op-Ed in this newspaper on depression and briefly touched upon its frequent companion ~ loneliness. Space did not permit me to...

monday 3

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Abhik Roy

Reality Check

Reality Check

India’s latest GDP growth figure has delivered precisely the kind of political dividend that impressive headline numbers are meant to produce. At a...

monday 20

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Statesman News Service

Putin’s Trap

Putin’s Trap

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s greatest problem may no longer be winning the war in Ukraine. It may be finding a way to stop it. More than four...

monday 20

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Statesman News Service

A birth year can’t be a worldview

A birth year can’t be a worldview

Newsrooms have found a new noun and cannot put it down: Gen Z, pronounced as if it were a party with a leader, a manifesto, a whip and a press...

monday 3

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Yateesh Srivastava

Shared Peril

Shared Peril

The catastrophic floods in Nepal should end a dangerous illusion in India: that Himalayan disasters can be neatly contained within national borders or...

06.09.2026 20

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Statesman News Service

When Centurions sent Pattons to their graves

When Centurions sent Pattons to their graves

On September 1, the 1 Armoured Division commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Phillora in the Sialkot sector – one of the fiercest...

06.09.2026 10

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Advitya Madan

Why don’t we marry the same way?

Why don’t we marry the same way?

In India, a wedding is rarely just the union of two people. It is a meeting of families, customs, languages, cuisines, histories and communities. This...

06.09.2026 20

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Soumyasree Musunuri

Rethinking Progress

Rethinking Progress

On the morning of August 26, a wall of water and rock roared down the Bhotekashi valley where Nepal meets Tibet, a glacier somewhere high above the...

06.09.2026 20

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Dr. R. Balasubramaniam

The AI Bet

The AI Bet

Silicon Valley has built a vast economic edifice on an assumption that remains surprisingly untested: that once artificial intelligence becomes...

06.09.2026 20

The Statesman

Statesman News Service

Back in the USSR

Back in the USSR

In commemorating Dr S Radhakrishnan’s birth anniversary, as Teachers’ Day every year on September 5, we unfold a relatively lesser-known facet of...

05.09.2026 4

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Raju Mansukhani

Burden of Belonging

Burden of Belonging

Few individuals have occupied the centre of Indian politics for as long while revealing as little of themselves as Sonia Gandhi. For nearly three...

05.09.2026 20

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Statesman News Service

Personalised War

Personalised War

For more than a century, the idea of a vaccine against cancer has occupied an uncertain space between scientific ambition and medical fantasy. Cancer...

05.09.2026 20

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Statesman News Service

The cost of seeming to know

The cost of seeming to know

It is Teacher’s Day again. And I find myself wondering what exactly we have become so good at celebrating. We celebrate teachers, quite rightly. We...

05.09.2026 3

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Sunita Tripathy

Change of guard, change of colour

Change of guard, change of colour

As one of the distinctly visible and integral components of public life, it is extremely difficult to ignore the various shades of colour that glare...

02.09.2026 10

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Argha Kr Banerjee

The Great Compression

The Great Compression

Nations rarely announce their turning points. They arrive as gazette notifications, addenda to handbooks, and judgments read out on a Friday...

02.09.2026 10

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Charudutta Panigrahi

Beyond Victory

Beyond Victory

A hundred days is too short to judge a government, but long enough to understand its instincts. By that measure, the BJP’s first months in power in...

02.09.2026 20

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Statesman News Service

Owning tradition

Owning tradition

A jewellery advertisement featuring actor Kriti Sanon has been withdrawn after criticism over her clothes while celebrating Rakshabandhan. What might...

02.09.2026 20

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Statesman News Service

But where is India’s economic growth?

But where is India’s economic growth?

Even as the freightlines open and the cranes swing over skylines that did not have them, conversations in some circles, typically elite ones, now...

02.09.2026 7

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Vidhu Shekhar

Some positives from India-China talks

Some positives from India-China talks

India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held the 25th round of Special Representative (SR) talks with his counterpart, Chinese foreign minister...

01.09.2026 6

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Harsha Kakar

Hubris cannot rewrite laws of nature

Hubris cannot rewrite laws of nature

How do you explain what Charles Dickens called “the best of times, and the worst of times?” We live today with massive social inequalities. The...

01.09.2026 10

The Statesman

Andrew Sheng

Inherited knowledge

Inherited knowledge

A village elder in the Himalayan foothills would watch ants carrying their eggs uphill. To a hurried visitor, it was an ordinary sight. To the elder,...

01.09.2026 20

The Statesman

Rudrashis Datta

Dolly’s Lesson

Dolly’s Lesson

Dolly Parton’s death leaves America with an uncomfortable question: what happens to a public culture when almost every prominent figure is expected...

01.09.2026 20

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Statesman News Service

Bangladesh Test

Bangladesh Test

India’s eagerness to host Tarique Rahman is about more than diplomatic courtesy. It reflects a harder reality: New Delhi has lost the strategic...

01.09.2026 20

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Statesman News Service

The Control in the Age of Algorithmocracy

The Control in the Age of Algorithmocracy

For the majority of history, the character of politics was evident in the forms of power. It was the king on the throne, the emperor in the palace,...

31.08.2026 6

The Statesman

Dr Abhishek Ranjan