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Beyond free UPI: Why the government is testing political capital over economic logic

After rolling back farm laws and land reforms, the government's stance on merchant fees signals a potential shift in strategy.

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A K Bhattacharya

World keeps pushing Russia, India, China together. Then RIC tears itself apart

Is a Russia-India-China trilateral even feasible today? Or is the geopolitical gravity that pulls them together outweighed by the pressure pulling...

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Bantirani Patro

Why insist on immersing Ganpati idols in Hussain Sagar? Hyderabad has other options

On Monday, members of a Ganesh samiti tore down barricades that had been put up along a stretch of Hussain Sagar lake to stop idol immersions during...

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Yunus Lasania

Chinese commentary on Xi-Trump summit is a cross between flowers and daggers

Chinese media invokes mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation. Memes mock Trump’s proclivity for fawning praise and imposing...

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Sana Hashmi

Kashmir brain drain is different from Kerala and Punjab

Data on money sent home by the Kashmiri diaspora remains poorly tracked. Kashmir loses its people for free, while other migrant-sending states in...

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Tehmeena Rizvi

Do DUSU poll results reflect youth sentiment across India? Modi-Shah have cause to worry

BJP leaders know well that the DUSU results don’t necessarily mean restoration of the status quo ante or the return to the state of affairs as it...

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D.k. Singh

Frontier Nagaland Bill should have made national headlines. A new model of autonomy

The FNTA Bill 2026 creates a new autonomous body for Nagaland’s eastern districts. It is a political settlement more ambitious than the standard...

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Sanjeev Chopra

Pakistan just set a reserve record. Much of it is borrowed money

Pakistan’s commitment to the IMF already classifies it as debt. The government is celebrating a figure that its own bailout documentation does not...

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Bidisha Bhattacharya

Tata Sons vs Tata Trusts—battle for Bombay House is really about moral authority

The Tatas are too important to India for the whole group to be paralysed because of one man’s (Noel Tata’s) hostility to another man (N...

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Vir Sanghvi

Goa has a Ganpati problem — Omkar the elephant keeps coming back

Everyone involved in this story hopes for a good outcome for the young elephant. But no matter how you spin it, Omkar is a challenge.

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Karanjeet Kaur

Shirt off, chivalry on—Salman Khan at 60 is now India’s Number One Feminist

As public acts of support for women’s causes go, Salman Khan’s defence of Katrina Kaif on Bigg Boss was an unparalleled PR triumph.

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Shobhaa de

AI will replace jobs, yes, but India’s bigger failure will be to miss the empowerment wave

After dominating IT, India missed the AI boom due to timid investments and zero foresight. Policy must fix it now.

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Ashutosh Varshney

Stop asking, can Bengaluru become Silicon Valley for AI? Key lies in its difficult problems

As technology becomes easier to develop, first-hand knowledge of how systems fail could become an valuable source of innovation.

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Gayatri Panda

From BRICS success to AI risks: What the past can teach us—history is a cycle, not a line

As global trade shifts to protectionism and AI reshapes society, ancient Indian philosophy offers a guiding lens for today’s challenges.

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Meenakashi Lekhi

Why India needs BRICS to balance both Washington and Beijing

India’s founding membership acts as a crucial veto to prevent hostile consensus and balance Chinese dominance across the Global South.

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R Jagannathan

Mark Carney is showing the centre still has a place in an age of extremes

The backlash against globalisation has reshaped politics across the West. Carney’s approach suggests there is still room for a different path.

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Dhiraj Nayyar

Why diplomacy alone won’t work anymore for India-Bangladesh ties

For observers of India-Bangladesh ties, a relationship invested heavily in people-to-people connections, a shift in political understanding creates a...

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Rishi Gupta

How I would like Indians to discover Poland—pierogi, Chopin, friendship: Polish Ambassador

India has an extraordinarily positive image among Poles. Ask a Pole about India and, very often, you will hear about yoga, Bollywood, spirituality,...

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Piotr Switalski

Does robotic hair transplant really work for women?

Robotic transplants sound like sci-fi magic, but remember: shiny gadgets can’t replace real clinical diagnosis.

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Deepali Bhardwaj

Trump’s Greenland deal changes little. His bullying can change US-Denmark ties

As Donald Trump ended his confrontation over Greenland, European leaders were remembering the enormous risks taken as the Cold War began to descend on...

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Praveen Swami

If you can’t eat rice with your hands in front of him, he’s not the one

Stop lying about being full. The performative 'I forgot to eat' act is a tragic scam born from toxic female body judgment.

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Ratan Priya

Dating app fatigue is real. It’s doomscrolling for love

The crack in the shiny armour of modern dating is clearer than ever. And uncertainty rules the dating apps. It’s the ultimate will they or won’t they?

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Insha Jalil Waziri

Dividing Indian history into Hindu, Muslim and Christian periods is unscientific: Nehru

In December 1961, PM Jawaharlal Nehru delivered a speech in Delhi marking 100 years of the Archaeological Survey of India, where he highlighted the...

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Jawaharlal Nehru

No love stories for Bollywood’s married heroines. Only guns, revenge and trauma

From Rani Mukerji to Deepika Padukone, wives and mothers get to play cops and spies, but no longer the object of desire in a love story.

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Samah Qundeel

Is Indian govt warming up to queer community? I wouldn’t celebrate just yet

From leaked affidavits to anti-trans laws, celebrating the bare minimum only covers up a government actively resisting true equality.

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Prasanna Bachchhav

New Mercedes GLC 400 electric is big, fast, and feature-loaded. It lacks one thing

The new GLC gets a total of 360 kW of power from its twin motors, one on each axle, allowing the electric SUV to do 0-100 kmph in just 4.3 seconds.

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Kushan Mitra

Muslim dissenters need cover in India. The Republic cannot blame only the Qaum

Ibn Khaldun Bharati gets Shah Bano right and 20 crore Indians wrong. A broker is made at the counter, not in the mosque.

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K.b.s Sidhu

India has the technology to end extreme hunger now. It’s a question of public will

India now has the technical capacity to actually eliminate mass poverty and extreme hunger within a generation. Does it want to?

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Pranav Sharma

Where is my romcom moment? Hollywood promised it would happen at 27

For a generation now, we have been taught and conditioned to believe that life starts at this age. You’re somewhat financially stable, old enough to...

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Insha Jalil Waziri

The great Indian Tatkal race. You have better chances of winning KBC

Booking a Tatkal ticket requires serious mathematical skills. You have to know when the train started its run, where it originated, and when the...

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Harsh Tiwari

Ted Lasso should have ended with Season 3. The new storyline has lost the plot

Seven of ten episodes of Ted Lasso’s Season 4 are out, and the writers are still focusing on the same five characters, whose storylines stagnated...

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Aakriti Handa

Lust Stories can’t do without Radhika Apte. She makes desire desi

Radhika Apte talks about bold, flawed, curious and unapologetic women. She is a perfect example of ‘Indian beauty with brains’. Both Netflix and...

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Triya Gulati

Why Alastair Lamb’s hypothesis on Kashmir’s Instrument of Accession remains irrelevant

When the legal structure of Kashmir’s accession, the sequence of requests and decisions, and the actual timeline are carefully examined, Alastair...

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Amit Krishankant Paul

Ganpati reels are making LGBT puns, modak-shaming north Indians. Sohail Khan is the meme

The clip dominating every feed is Sohail Khan dancing like a man possessed at the Khan family’s Visarjan. The footage has lived multiple lives on...

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Himanshi Aggarwal

Indian paps don’t respect boundaries. Actors’ backsides have become money shots

From Jaya Bachchan to Neha Dhupia, Bollywood actresses are increasingly calling out India’s invasive, toxic paparazzi culture.

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Purvi Rajpuria

Katrina Kaif’s body is not a before-after photo. It happened to Aishwarya too

Everyone feels entitled to demand a quarterly performance report from a woman celebrity. She has KRAs: glamorous but relatable, sexy but respectable.

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Stela Dey

Alfred Cooke is the Bull who cooked the PAF’s goose. He deserved more than a Vir Chakra

On 18 September 2026, Flight Lieutenant Alfred Tyrone Cooke passed away aged 87, a day before No. 14 Squadron, the Bulls, was to celebrate its...

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Anchit Gupta

Siddharth in Lust Stories 3 shows Bollywood’s men have come a long way since shirtless Salman

Siddharth’s character in the film doesn’t do much. He is there to be looked at, desired, and imagined.

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Harsh Tiwari

Trump threatened to redraw the map. Greenland deal shows the limits of his disruption

The bargain was never sovereignty in exchange for security. It was extensive American military freedom inside continuing Danish sovereignty.

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Swasti Rao

Mecca Pact’s first test—Saudi Arabia needed allies. Pakistan and Turkey offered kind words

Years of bilateral ties among Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey should have led them to deal with the Houthi skirmish with cooperation and support....

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Debdutta Chakraborty

Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy prevented Indian agriculture from growing: Bhanu Pratap Singh

It is surprising that no one in the Planning Commission has yet quantified the capital requirement for the modernisation of our agriculture, wrote...

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Bhanu Singh

I started liking paneer in India. Shahi paneer is my favourite now: Polish Ambassador

Piotr Antoni Świtalski, the Ambassador of Poland to India since 2025, writes that he was familiar with India through his wife’s academic study of...

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Piotr Switalski

In Lust Stories 3, desire turns desi

India finds desire sexy in English, but vulgar in Hindi. Lust Stories 3 flips the script.

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Triya Gulati

Kiran Rao brings Mumbai alive, not desire in Lust Stories 3

Kiran Rao gave us Dhobi Ghat 2.0. I wanted another version of Lust Stories.

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Triya Gulati

Muslim personal law is in conflict with POCSO. It needs reform

Our interpretation of religious rules can recognise the new realities without treating every attempt at reform as an attack on religion.

18.09.2026 20

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Amana Begam

Lust Stories 3 is pandering to the ‘female gaze’. Take notes, Bollywood

Social media is flooded with people obsessing over Siddharth’s scenes in the trailer. No one can stop staring at his messy curls, handlebar...

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Triya Gulati

Governance is changing. Why elected leaders must keep learning

While continuing his responsibilities as an MP, Dr Shrikant Shinde, who holds an MBBS and MS from Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, has begun pursuing...

18.09.2026 10

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Shaina Nc

How Saudi Arabia was dragged back into a Yemen war it spent years trying to leave

Riyadh now finds itself squeezed between a receding America and an advancing Ansar Allah, while the Mecca Pact has not proved a saviour.

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Swasti Rao

India aced the BRICS Summit. The harder part begins now

After eighteen summits since 2009, one thing that still eludes BRICS is clarity, determination and speed in implementing its objectives.

18.09.2026 20

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Seshadri Chari

From Shah Bano to Waqf—how Muslim politics has produced just intermediaries, not intellectuals

Indian Muslims have leaders, lawyers and bureaucrats. But they lack a culture of self-criticism.

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Ibn Khaldun Bharati