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Adnan Sami’s ‘Lipstick’ refuses to smash patriarchy. It only talks about ‘buri nazar’

In the song, Adnan Sami is not trying to ‘save’ women or become some aggressively woke mascot. He simply changed the lens around a taboo object.

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Triya Gulati

The Annamalai factor—Why the BJP needs a new Southern strategy

The Dravidian identity, artificially created during colonial rule, is about racially dividing Indians between the Aryan north and the Dravidian south....

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R Jagannathan

Hyderabad only knows Golconda. Telangana’s Hindu temples are either ignored—or demolished

The destruction of the 800-year-old Kakatiya-era temple in Warangal comes when Telangana and Hyderabad have both faced sustained threats of erasure of...

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Yunus Lasania

The invisible economy of unpaid care work in India—how women are kept out of the workforce

Countries that have expanded women’s workforce participation have done so by investing in care systems, accessible childcare, eldercare services,...

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Amir Ullah Khan

Heat stress is not a temperature. India needs to learn that

A 45°C day in Phoenix, US, — functionally the hottest major city in the developed world — and a 45°C day in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, are...

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Supriya krishnan

A proposal for NTA—digitise exam centres, encrypt question papers

The NTA must adopt technology to combat the problem. Develop a high-quality bank of questions and use an algorithm to create a paper using...

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Dinesh Singh

India just doesn’t want to go into the real reasons behind wars. It’s our blind spot

A peculiar feature of the Indian security state is the frequency with which failures to anticipate enemy action are explained away as 'intelligence...

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Sidharth Raimedhi

India’s tax and trade policies are not aligned. It creates inefficiencies

India has made important strides with GST and corporate tax. Yet, exporters continue to grapple with delays in refunds and compliance burdens that...

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Shishir Priyadarshi

Trump’s China visit is already a spectacle on Chinese internet. Strategists are cautious

Tang Xianglong, a senior media commentator, claimed that the visit is far more than a routine diplomatic engagement and could shape the trajectory of...

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Sana Hashmi

Vijay’s victory has turned Tamil Nadu upside down. He must be fearless, not accommodating

The delay in swearing in Vijay led to more than just mere horse-trading, it ignited a full-fledged cattle auction in a morally bankrupt marketplace.

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Mukund Padmanabhan

3 things Indians should know about PM Modi’s austerity appeal

By encouraging citizens to work from home or carpool, PM Narendra Modi is not idealising the pandemic. He is urging Indians to undertake actions that...

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Bidisha Bhattacharya

Trump has played his cards before China visit. Xi holds diplomatic power

Donald Trump arrives in Beijing to meet Xi Jinping in an extraordinarily weak negotiating position for a president who has made strength his...

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Alicia Garcia Herrero

What does merit really produce in India? Ask the IIM-B nanny, Payal Tadvi, and Gopal Das

The alleged abuse of a Manipur nanny at an IIM-Bangalore faculty member's house once again shows that actual merit doesn't end with a degree.

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Karanjeet Kaur

Trump-Xi summit reveals a rivalry too deep to decouple, too tense to cooperate

Both the US and China recognise the lure and liabilities of deep economic interdependence, even as geopolitical realities push them toward structural...

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Monish Tourangbam

Bhagwant Mann vs Akal Takht—Punjab’s anti-sacrilege law opens new fault lines

The issue of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji has been exploited as political capital by every major party in Punjab. Each has invoked the wounds...

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K.b.s Sidhu

Balen Shah is changing Nepal’s India-China balancing act. It’s a risky foreign policy

If Balen Shah sticks to the much speculated ‘no foreign visits for a year’ policy, the cost of such a risk needs to be weighed against the current...

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Rishi Gupta

Somnath Temple & Ram Mandir tell one story—of a wounded civilisation meeting a modern state

Historical and civilisational wounds can be healed by dressing them with the putty of acknowledgement. Participation by all in religious ceremonies is...

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Meenakashi Lekhi

India’s contempt law has three problems. Reform is difficult

The question of why the judiciary alone requires this protection, among all institutions whose public trust is constitutionally indispensable, has...

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Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah

Vijay gets his Sarkar in real life—too many odds are stacked against him

By letting his alliance partners help Vijay form a majority, Stalin looks like a statesman who has respected the public mandate. He would rather have...

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D.k. Singh

For 22 yrs, Arsenal fans survived in past to cope with present. All that’s about to change

The emotional tone surrounding Arsenal has completely shifted. The jokes are disappearing. And perhaps that is the clearest sign of all. Title’s in...

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Saptak Datta

The evolving role of Muslims in India

It is time Muslims themselves stopped seeing themselves as only Muslims, seeking to differentiate and distance themselves from Hindus in every...

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R Jagannathan

Election Commission just got away with match-fixing. This isn’t what India is about

Even in Indira Gandhi’s time there was so much disgust with the behaviour of Governors. Nothing came of it because every government always wants its...

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Vir Sanghvi

India’s trade story hidden in e-way bills. Gujarat and Bihar are mirror images

Every month, 9 crore digital documents capture how goods move across India. We finally read them.

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Payal Seth

The forgotten legacy of ASI’s Institute of Archaeology

While the Institute of Archaeology established by Mortimer Wheeler in London evolved into one of the world’s leading archaeological research...

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Disha Ahluwalia

Pakistan wants to revive Middle East alliance yet again. Terrible ideas die hard

Led by Türkiye and Saudi Arabia, and with Pakistan and Egypt as its providers of hard military power, the group seeks to push back against Iran’s...

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Praveen Swami

Hollywood has reduced Priyanka Chopra to a global action woman. She is more than that

From Aitraaz to 7 Khoon Maaf, Bollywood gave Priyanka Chopra room to play difficult characters.

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Tarini unnikrishnan

How a Gujarat dairy district is turning cow dung into cheaper fuel and carbon credits

Every day, 100 tonnes of cow dung are brought to the plant. This produces between 1.5 and 1.8 tonnes of natural gas, and every day, 350-400 vehicles...

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Kushan Mitra

Indians don’t know how to date. We are still in get-set-mandap mode

The land of Kama, Krishna, and Khusrau has been accused of being terrible at love. India ranked lowest among 29 countries in “partner...

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Ratan Priya

What your skin needs after returning from a vacation

A common mistake is rushing into peels or intensive facials immediately after travelling. This often worsens sensitivity. Focus on repair and...

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Deepali Bhardwaj

Indian mothers’ care, sacrifices are glorified. TUS data reveals their invisible labour

For generations, the work women do within the home has gone largely uncounted in national productivity measures. The Time Use Survey is an important...

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Poonam Munjal

Bengal was the undisputed industry leader in India. Why did it lose its way? asked Vajpayee

On 16 July 2003, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry on its 150th anniversary in Kolkata, underlining West...

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Vijay turned reels, whistles, and fan edits into a political triumph

TVK tapped into young people with promises of employment, better governance, and youth-centric politics, framing old regimes as outdated while...

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Shweta tripathi

Modi wins because he understands where India’s heart lies. Right in politics, Left in economics

Despite some serious efforts at easing the environment for doing business, India remains an ‘approvals & permissions’ economy, with the...

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Dhiraj Nayyar

Didi and Modi and the Indian meme world exploded this week

A whole army of content creators has taken to dressing up as the deposed TMC leader. In the videos, she is beaten, kicked around, and shown as a...

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Prasanna Bachchhav

India’s new wage code could raise pay without hurting jobs. Here’s how

The Code on Wages, 2019 represents a structural reform aimed at strengthening wage regulation, with potential implications for labour market outcomes.

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Farzana Afridi

An inefficient entrepreneur deserves to be branded as anti-social: Arvind Narottam Lalbhai

The policy, apart from encouraging, really discourages the growth of a competitive economy, which is the only antidote to monopoly.

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Arvind lalbhai

Indian aunties are leading the baddie era

Anyone doing anything confident and cool outside the box is termed a baddie in 2026. The idea has expanded far beyond age, body type, or aesthetic...

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Nishtha modgil

Can HBO’s Harry Potter survive the comparison curse?

HBO's Hogwarts will definitely return for season two, but the challenge remains: Make fans feel fresh, not 'been there, hexed that.'

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Tarini unnikrishnan

Lessons from Op Sindoor—Pakistan spent on building, and India spent on deliberating

Pakistan’s institutional response to Sindoor was systematic and swift. Three reforms, executed within twelve months, have rebuilt the architecture...

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Anil raman

America’s new energy frontier runs through baroque Balkans. New Delhi must know why

IMEC projects plugging into the 3SI is a matter of when, not if. This makes US engagement in the Western Balkans significant for New Delhi.

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Swasti Rao

A Jain merchant’s diary of daily life under Mughal rulers Akbar, Jahangir & Shah Jahan

When Akbar dies, the Jain merchant records that he fainted in shock, cutting his head open on the stone floor of the courtyard, which ‘turned red...

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Krishnokoli Hazra

Why India must find ways to be visible on the Middle East crisis

If New Delhi seeks to move beyond being a voice of the Global South to becoming a consequential global actor, then moments of crisis are not...

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Shishir Priyadarshi

19 Kumaon regiment had no avalanche cords, boots, crampons. It secured Gyong La with sacrifice

The ridgeline in the region to be captured was at an average height of 20,000 feet. The soldiers of 19 Kumaon didn’t have even basic mountaineering...

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Amit Krishankant Paul

Why the Baltic states remember the Soviet Union as an occupier

While the world celebrated in 1945, three nations were being erased from the map by a Soviet regime masking its empire as anti-imperialism.

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Diana mickevičienė

Why should only Muslims be responsible for defending secularism? TMC’s Bengal loss isn’t on us

Why does a party that presents itself as secular begin to feel a sense of entitlement over Muslim votes? And why do they not have the same sentiment...

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Amana Begam

Tamil Nadu, Keralam, Bengal signal a new political order. BJP’s road to 2029 starts now

BJP has to show exemplary performance in the states under its control, retain those that will go to polls next year, win new geographies, and aim for...

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Seshadri Chari

Bengal is notoriously prone to political violence. It didn’t start with TMC-BJP rivalry

The murder of Suvendu Adhikari’s aide, Chandranath Rath, has shaken both the political stakeholders and the civil society.

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Deep Halder

By refusing to resign, Mamata Banerjee isn’t resisting authoritarianism—she is becoming it

Mamata Banerjee spent decades fighting for Bengalis' right to vote. It would be a tragedy for her legacy if she told those same Bengalis their vote...

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Shashank Maheshwari

Operation Sindoor 2 could unfold in 5 yrs. Pakistan is learning from Iran

Pakistan cannot match India economically and militarily. The Iran model is tailor-made for it. Islamabad will invest in select technologies to match...

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Lt Gen H S Panag

To understand Mughal history, look at the wives and daughters. Not just male rulers

Descriptions of life in the residential quarters of the palace give us a greater insight into the culture of the Mughals beyond performative aspects...

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Swapna Liddle