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From Bronze Age migrations to British Raj—how ideas stopped flowing between India and Iran

As early states developed in the Iranian plateau and northern India, ideas continued to circulate between the steppe and the settlements of the...

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Anirudh Kanisetti

From caliphate to cyberspace: ISIS exploits digital platforms to endure and inspire

The Islamic State is adapting to terrain loss by deepening its online reach, leveraging platforms to mobilise and influence followers.

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Soumya Awasthi

Hindi TV news has found Trump’s ‘secret file’ on Iran. They’re waiting for ‘world war’

‘Operation Tehran by US forces will take place in 12 hours,' said Zee News on Tuesday afternoon. Er, not quite…

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Shailaja Bajpai

India’s middle class can now pursue startup ambitions. Govt policy made it possible

The normalisation of entrepreneurship as a legitimate career path owes much to the visibility and emphasis that policy has given to startups.

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Sanjeev Bikhchandani

India’s defence preparedness rests on HAL. Start with the weak link—human resources

HAL invests heavily in training engineers abroad and at premier institutions like IITs and IIMs but they are underutilised.

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Gopal Sutar

Bangladeshi Hindus have nowhere to go in the election. Choice is between fear and fear

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has given ticket to a Hindu candidate for the first time and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has fielded two Hindus....

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Deep Halder

Iran surveys show most Iranians favour regime change but disagree on what comes next

GAMAAN surveys show 70-80 per cent reject the Islamic Republic, but not clear on what should replace it.

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Ammar Maleki

Chinese commentary on Iran protests — serious but not regime-threatening

The views of analysts reflect a wider Chinese tendency to emphasise regime resilience and caution against overstating the impact of what they are...

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Sana Hashmi

Debt target to central schemes, expect three significant changes in Budget 2026

The absence of major adjustments in tax rates has meant a decline in general interest in the annual budgets, with less curiosity about what they...

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A K Bhattacharya

The killing of a Minnesota woman by ICE agent has awoken the ‘tech Left’

‘We all bear a collective responsibility to speak up and not be silent when we see things like the events of the last week,’ Jeff Dean, chief...

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Dave Lee

India frames tech debates as innovation vs regulation. This has to change

Grok controversy is a test for India's AI ambitions. Human dignity should lead innovation.

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Manish Maheshwari

Magh Bihu isn’t like Pongal or Makar Sankranti. It is rebellious at heart, with tribal origins

The practice of collective cooking is central to Uruka, the night before Magh Bihu when people sit around a bonfire sharing meat, rice beer, and...

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Shabnoor Rahman

India’s nuclear-power goal needs more than capital

New Delhi has finally accepted that the base load power demand of the future will need supplementing, and nuclear plants are one way to go about it.

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Mihir Sharma

The Budget faces a precarious illusion. Low inflation masks a deeper fragility

If low inflation is interpreted as a success, fiscal ambitions will be limited. And if it is perceived as indicative of weak demand, the policy...

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Bidisha Bhattacharya

US intervention in Venezuela is about MAGA anxiety, not just drugs or oil

MAGA’s opposition to H1-B visas for Indians has become rather well known, but compared to Hispanic immigration, the India question pales into...

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Ashutosh Varshney

Mumbai’s elite host Cocktails Pe Charcha before BMC polls. Netas & their wives are invited

Breaking the ice with voters is easier when the bar is well stocked.

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Shobhaa De

Goa’s Moira now houses a Rs 105 crore villa. New settlers are still trying to fit in

For settlers who arrived before the latest wave, watching the transformation unfold has been disorienting. 'Suddenly, Goa is a rich person’s place.'

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Karanjeet Kaur

Delhi has too many actors to tackle air pollution. Beijing offers an alternative

India cannot simply copy Beijing’s political model, but it can adapt key governance principles.

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Vani Archana

Don’t mistake India’s economic recovery for a new era of rapid growth

The underlying issue is that there hasn’t been enough of a structural change in the economy since the launch of reforms in 1990-91, despite per...

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Tn Ninan

Vaishno Devi medical college crisis is manufactured. Jammu needs institutions, not provocation

BJP has actively contributed to Jammu losing a working medical college. What kind of guardians preside over loss?

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Shriya Handoo

Smog’s unseen impact: pollutants on our food plates

Air pollution not only harms health but also lowers protein, iron and micronutrients in food, risking nutrition and food security.

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Shoba Suri

Where are women in India’s gig economy? The question we forgot to ask in the outcry

In India, women remain concentrated in a narrow range of sectors such as beauty and hairdressing, household maintenance, residential care, and...

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Cledwyn Fernandez

India has 7.4% growth, but faltering tax revenue could have implications in coming fiscal year

In the first eight months of the current fiscal year, New Delhi’s net tax intake didn’t even hit the halfway mark of what it expects to collect by...

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Andy Mukherjee

Iran protests and the moral confusion of Liberals

The revolts in Iran are too massive to be ignored. But you have to ask yourself: why did it take so long?

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Vir Sanghvi

From declarations to deliverables—why India’s climate strategy is different

Bharat Climate Forum 2026 was convened as India faces a dual challenge: to meet ambitious climate goals while accelerating industrialisation, job...

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Meenakashi Lekhi

NCLT bottleneck hinders India’s M&A boom. Govt’s fast-track framework ignores the real problem

The question is no longer whether India can create fast tracks. It already has. The question is whether the main track—and the regulators who feed...

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Siddarth Raman

British Raj determined what kind of dog was acceptable in India—pets vs strays

There was a painful recalibration of dog-human relationships in 18th century Britain—any dog, except for the owned, leashed pet, lost its right to...

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Heeral Chhabra

BJP CMs are drawing the wrong lessons from election victories

What’s wrong with the BJP’s chief ministers? The lackadaisical governance of many stems from their reading of election victories as a result of...

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D.k. Singh

Nepal’s political parties are back to square one. Impact of Gen Z protests fading

For a stable Nepal, the way forward lies in strengthening democratic institutions, ensuring political stability through inclusive dialogue, and...

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Rishi Gupta

Poker face: How AI is beating humans at our own games

New paper applies cutting-edge AI technique to the game of Liar’s Poker, testing it against some of the best human players who are also successful...

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Aaron Brown

XUV 7XO shows Mahindra’s engineering prowess. DAVINCI suspension makes a world of difference

The old XUV 700 was an indication that the Indian manufacturer had begun to up their game. But 7XO is world-class in terms of fit, finish, and...

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Kushan Mitra

Loyalty to the country is above all other loyalties: Lal Bahadur Shastri at AMU

On 19 December 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri delivered an address at the convocation of the Aligarh Muslim University, outlining the role education...

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Lal Bahadur Shastri

Trump is dismantling the post-1991 world America built. He rejects a second superpower

For all the murmurs of multipolarity, Donald Trump knows it’s still a unipolar world and is exercising muscle without veneer.

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Dhiraj Nayyar

Ghosted for grammar and cheap whisky—how English, class decide who gets a date

Ladies and gentlemen swiping in the privacy of their rooms will always unfairly reject people. They will pick the ones who talk like them, eat like...

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Ratan Priya

How to treat melasma—strict sun protection, oral therapies and targeted lasers

Classic features of the disease include brown, gray-brown, or bluish patches on cheeks, forehead, upper lip, nose, and chin—often forming a...

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Deepali Bhardwaj