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Even Modi govt rejected the Taj Mahal conspiracy. Why is Allahabad HC taking it seriously?

A society that distorts and devalues the past in an effort to promote the politics of the present damages itself and all those who live in it.

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Vir Sanghvi

Why Modi’s visits aren’t making news in Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand

One would expect more interest in Modi’s trips in the Asia Pacific region. But there hasn't been a build-up in the Australian or New Zealand press...

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Shailaja Bajpai

NTR Jr movie row is about 2 ideas of Murugan—mascot of Hindutva mythos vs Tamil-only icon

Two nationalisms are shouting past each other. One would dissolve Murugan into a pan-Indian Hindutva spectacle, while the other would make him an icon...

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Anirudh Kanisetti

Future of India’s IBGs rests on rollout speed, tech. History rarely rewards armies that wait

With the rollout of Integrated Battle Groups, India is implementing a brigade-centric model nearly two decades after the US Army and about a decade...

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Lt Gen H S Panag

The test of Gujarat’s Operation Mule Hunt is not 55 arrests. Count the money instead

Having spent a career watching the state respond to public alarm, I know its reflex: raise enforcement numbers, let the metric substitute for the...

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Op Singh

Dear Lionel Messi, stop giving fans heart attacks in World Cup matches

There should be a public health advisory before every World Cup knockout game in which Argentina plays. And, Lionel Messi needs to stop giving his...

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Debdutta Chakraborty

How the 1872 census was the first big attempt to enumerate colonial India

A colonial data project spanning provinces, dates and methods, the census revealed as much about British administration as it did about India.

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Shivakumar Jolad

China is watching India’s new Ambassador Vikram Doraiswami very closely for clues

Vikram Doraiswami’s posting comes at a moment when India and China are cautiously trying to stabilise ties after several difficult years.

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Sana Hashmi

Mock the Indian uncle. Don’t turn him into a glib theory of India

The problem with a recent Economist article, ‘India’s republic of uncles’, is the old habit of mistaking a clever metropolitan caricature for...

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Omkar Joshi

South India isn’t as free as we think. Andhra Pradesh arrested a YouTuber five times in a week

From Prashna Raavan to journalist KV Reddy to comedians Anudeep Katikala and Mohammed Rafeeq, Andhra Pradesh's crackdown on dissent is starting to...

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Yunus Lasania

When marijuana is banned, why does bhang get a free pass?

It is worth asking whether there is a case to decriminalise marijuana or, at the very least, treat it very differently from other drugs.

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Mukund Padmanabhan

What should India learn from China’s tech rise? Not everything

The task before India is not to become China. It is to become a more deliberate version of itself.

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S Ramakrishna Velamuri

Leisure is a privilege in India—distributed unevenly along many lines

The most uncomfortable finding of the study based on the Time Use Survey, 2024 data is that rising education and income do not close the gender gap in...

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Sudeepto Das

Belgium’s biggest victory against the US in FIFA World Cup was over politics in football

Belgium's 4-1 win is bigger than securing a berth at the quarter-finals. It was silencing a nation which had been doing things just out of muscle...

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Saptak Datta

Modi in Indo-Pacific, Jaishankar in Gulf—how India is rebuilding its strategic map

July could be busiest month for India’s diplomatic establishment as Narendra Modi and S Jaishankar cover major power centres globally. The visits...

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Rishi Gupta

From e-rickshaw pranks to denying lifts in the RWA—Indians’ joke is always on the poor

There’s a term for this kind of sport, borrowed from wildlife conservation, which describes hunting or baiting animals for pleasure of watching them...

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Karanjeet Kaur

What India can learn from America at 250

The US is a country under considerable strain, with its politics polarised and immigration debate bitter. India should therefore resist both reflexive...

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Suresh Prabhu

Piyush Goyal says India is on track for $1 trillion exports. FTA kite has a string problem

India-UK CETA promises duty-free access from 15 July, but the determining factor is procedural, rather than a high-level meeting.

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Bidisha Bhattacharya

India needs to prepare a strategy document that charts coal’s decline, year on year

India has the world’s third-largest renewable fleet, but we remain a coal-based economy. Coal still supplies close to three-quarters of the...

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Renuka Sane

From witch hunt to Netflix, Rhea Chakraborty’s return is the plot twist of the century

Defying the industry's usual comeback script, the actor rebuilt her life through a hit podcast, fashion, and reality TV.

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Triya Gulati

Following Rahul Gandhi’s script, Priyank Kharge takes on the RSS

By questioning the RSS’s legal registration status, Priyank Kharge aims to lock in minority and Dalit support for Congress on a national level.

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R Jagannathan

Sri Lanka’s Ibbankatuwa shows what India gets wrong about archaeology

What struck me the most at Ibbankatuwa was not the scale of its infrastructure, but the restraint with which the site has been presented.

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Disha Ahluwalia

What PM Modi’s three-nation tour tells about India’s changing Indo-Pacific policy

Geography alone makes Indonesia strategically significant for India. Straddling the Malacca, Sunda, and Lombok Straits, it dominates the maritime...

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Ajai Malhotra

Minister Vijayvargiya mocks officers’ toadyism, but IAS-IPS-IRS officers have the last laugh

The Modi government may ridicule bureaucrats in public, but its faith in trusted officers — and its dependence on them — has never been more evident.

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D.k. Singh

Pakistan cannot reclaim Harappan heritage without embracing its Hindu history

The same week that Pakistan got funds from Britain and Australia to protect its “extraordinary” heritage, it destroyed a 125-year-old gurdwara...

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Meenakashi Lekhi

India’s court websites are broken. It’s becoming a justice crisis

Indian courts debate AI, judicial reforms and pendency. But for most litigants, the biggest obstacle is far simpler: websites that crash and often get...

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Siddarth Raman

Only those with outdated ideologies would be disappointed with our Constitution: Nani Palkhivala

In 1971, with Indira Gandhi's govt pushing constitutional amendments to curtail fundamental rights, including the right to property, Nani Palkhivala...

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Nani Palkhivala

Not your boring family SUV. Skoda Kodiaq RS balances practicality with agility

While Skoda's iconic Octavia RS is missed, the Kodiaq RS is a high-ground-clearance beast tackles city potholes and race tracks with equal ease.

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Kushan Mitra

Haryanvi song ‘Ab Tera Beta Mera Hai’ is Indian women’s new anthem against mama’s boys

The viral Haryanvi banger is a pushback against overbearing in-laws, as well as the manchildren who refuse to take a stand for their partners.

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Himanshi Aggarwal

Super Subbu is more Panchayat than Sex Education

During Subbu's training, the instructor simply asks the trainees to shout ‘sex education’ as loudly as they can, and the training is over. That,...

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Harsh Tiwari

Khamenei funeral shows religion still shapes power in West Asia

Despite US efforts to isolate Iran, Tehran just showed how it can still leverage its historical and religious ties through Khamenei’s funeral.

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Azeemah Saleem

Industrial revolution conquered nature. Technology is conquering what it means to be human

What is being lost is not information. It is the capacity to do anything with information that requires a sustained, reflective, and internally...

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Pranav Sharma

Why I say I’m queer, not gay

As Republicans in the US gear up to tear down the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling, American gays are rejecting queerness and offering up...

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Prasanna Bachchhav

What’s in a WhatsApp username? Privacy, fraud fears & govt’s power over apps

The government’s notices to WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal over their username features have become the biggest test yet of privacy versus Delhi’s...

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Vrinda Tulsian

Science lost something when it stopped asking ‘why’. It’s now high-tech animal husbandry

We surrendered our attention to the feed. We surrendered our memory to the search engine. We surrendered our solitude to the notification. Why...

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Pranav Sharma

Punjab didn’t end stubble burning with bans. Gurudwaras played a role too

The results are documented. According to government data, fire incidents in Punjab fell by over 90 per cent, from nearly 80,000 in 2020 to 5,114 by...

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Fateh Guram

America is still world’s most powerful nation at 250. But it must learn to lead differently

America's challenge is adapting to an international order where power is more diffused, technology outpaces institutions, alliances demand...

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Monish Tourangbam

The Angry Young Man is gone. Bollywood now celebrates only the anger

A lot has changed between Amitabh Bachchan's Zanjeer and Ranbir Kapoor's Animal. Today, the hero is the very man the old Angry Young Man used to...

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Harsh Tiwari

Argentina won the match, but Cabo Verde won hearts

Cabo Verde refused to be treated as minnows. They believed in themselves, and they believed in their fans who travelled thousands of kilometres just...

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Saptak Datta

Khamenei funeral shows Iran’s diplomatic relevance for India and its neighbours

Besides India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, no representations from the Himalayan countries, Nepal and Bhutan, were reported by the media or...

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Rishi Gupta

Don’t trade votes for bread. Democracy and growth should go hand in hand: MR Masani

In 1977, Constituent Assembly member MR Masani wrote about how only governments vulnerable to being voted out by the electorate will genuinely...

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Mr Masani

Delhi mango party gave India’s favourite summer situationship one last viral moment

India and mangoes are a tale as old as time. Open any novel by a desi writer and you’ll find mango somewhere in the first chapter.

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Himanshi Aggarwal

Why foreign universities alone won’t fix India’s higher education crisis

The regulatory framework that oversees the HEIs has such a large labyrinth of rules and regulations that institutions often have to work overtime to...

04.07.2026 20

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Seshadri Chari

Govt says India’s wildlife crime numbers are down. Here’s why that is only half true

At the national level, no single agency has the mandate, the legal authority, and the public accountability to tell India what wildlife crime actually...

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Ankit Mishra

DMK, AIADMK have gone quiet after defeat. TVK’s Vijay is going on the offensive after win

Tamil Nadu CM Vijay's 'animal spirits' aren't about consolidating power. They are aimed at making sure Udhayanidhi Stalin never gets the chance to...

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R Rajagopalan

Why Zendaya is the undisputed queen of method dressing

One of the early examples of method dressing is when Geena Davis arrived at the 1992 premiere of A League of Their Own in a white dress detailed with...

04.07.2026 20

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Triya Gulati

Whose heatwave is it anyway? Europe blames rising heat on US’ overuse of ACs

The heatwave has somehow turned into another chapter in the long-running cultural rivalry between Europe and America.

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Amana Begam

3 ways India-Japan relations can go beyond familiar adjectives of ‘natural’ and ‘special’

The changing landscape has produced an uncomfortable realisation for Japan and India that their natural partnership has remained underutilised.

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Swasti Rao

Punjab MLAs passed anti-sacrilege law without reading it. It’s a democratic failing

The most disturbing revelation at Sri Akal Takht Sahib was not the debate over Punjab’s proposed sacrilege law. It was the admission that...

03.07.2026 20

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Damanjeet Kaur

Why World Cup champions India crashed to a T20I series defeat in Ireland

India suffered a 2-0 defeat to Ireland in the two-match T20I series in Belfast, as the hosts registered their first-ever bilateral T20I series win...

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Triya Gulati