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Opinion | Muslims Aligning With Power? Odd Case Of BJP’s Rejinagar, Nagaon Bypoll Wins

Opinion | Muslims Aligning With Power? Odd Case Of BJP’s Rejinagar, Nagaon Bypoll Wins

The pure arithmetic of voter demographics in these two constituencies shows that Muslims have chosen the BJP in numbers noticeably higher than before.

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Opinion | Denied A ‘Hindu Vs Christian’ Button, Media Mute Manipur’s Kuki-Naga Conflict

Opinion | Denied A ‘Hindu Vs Christian’ Button, Media Mute Manipur’s Kuki-Naga Conflict

In reports that have become few and far between, the religious angle has been quietly tuned out. It is now apparently a purely 'ethnic conflict'...

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Opinion | Riding Dirt-Cheap Data, India’s Internet Moment Arrived Long Before Elon Musk

Opinion | Riding Dirt-Cheap Data, India’s Internet Moment Arrived Long Before Elon Musk

India's internet moment arrived nearly a decade ago. The white man with a big saviour complex is trying to catch up, but a bit too late.

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Opinion | Why India Is Right To Have Strong Security Concerns Over Elon Musk’s Starlink

Opinion | Why India Is Right To Have Strong Security Concerns Over Elon Musk’s Starlink

The operator is a US company bound by American spectrum rules, contracts and licences. Only Washington has reasonable control over it.

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Opinion | Elon’s Falling Mask: Trillionaire’s Rant Belies India’s Incredible Internet Reality

Opinion | Elon’s Falling Mask: Trillionaire’s Rant Belies India’s Incredible Internet Reality

At the cost and speed at which data is available in India, it would not require an Elon Musk to cover the miles untouched by the virtual world.

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Opinion | Guess Who Gains The Most From The Cockroach-Congress-AAP Street Show

Opinion | Guess Who Gains The Most From The Cockroach-Congress-AAP Street Show

A slew of factors point to the BJP ultimately benefiting once the dust settles.

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Opinion: Why Demography Panel’s Religious Data Drive Is Crucial For India’s Future

Policymakers can use such detection to safeguard social welfare benefits, electoral rolls, and public distribution systems

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Opinion | Kerala Minister Shaji May Have Rightly Prophesied About Muslim Women Challenging Islam

Shaji's community-based party fears losing the mindspace of young women who now have mobiles and academic degrees to support themselves

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Opinion | How Communists Have Started Losing The Culture War In West Bengal

One of the biggest battles is being waged to reclaim the spiritual heart of Durga Puja from the ‘secularisation’ foisted on the festival by the...

29.09.2026 30

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Opinion | Disagreement Among Election Chiefs Only Proves The Process Is Working

So far, not a single court or auditor has red-flagged the ECI’s decisions.

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Opinion | Five Ways Premature Hounding Of Prof Doolla May Blow Up The Road To Viksit Bharat

Even a hint of bias or political opportunism may blow up the road that India has set out on.

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Opinion | BRICS Gist: Alliances Weaken, Frenemies Bond As ‘Disloyal Diplomacy’ Goes Legit

Imagine a world in which a good marriage is judged by the number of public extramarital dalliances it withstands. That is exactly what geopolitics...

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Opinion | ‘Sarkar Unki, System Humara’: What Nationalists Can Learn From Marxist Thinker Gramsci

If nationalists want to retain power for many decades irrespective of electoral outcomes, they have to win the culture war.

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Opinion | AfD Sweep In Germany Sends Bold Message: Stop Invasion In Immigration’s Name

Whether it's Germany revolting against mass migration, or India pushing back Bangladeshi and Rohingya illegals, the voice against demographic and...

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Opinion: Why India Under PM Modi Averted A Major Caste Showdown Despite Opponents’ Attempts

Since British rule, caste has been cynically exploited as a fault line to divide the Hindu majority of Bharat and push one’s agenda

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Opinion | Nepal Stopping Sikh NGO Isn’t Personal; Its Laws Pre-empt Predatory Foreign Aid

Nepal is absolutely right in wanting to defend its sovereignty and demographic sanctity, which have been both callously and deliberately violated...

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Opinion | Bhagwat In New York: Celebrating Hindu Universalism, Exposing Mamdani’s Smallness

With his universalist appeal of Sanatan Dharma, Bhagwat exposed Mamdani’s own exclusionary, Islamist-adjacent politics

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Opinion | 100 Days Of Suvendu Sarkar: Carrots And Sticks Fly At Breathless Speed

West Bengal under Suvendu Adhikari is taking up policy reforms and ground action almost daily. Something that the state has seldom seen in the last 49...

29.08.2026 40

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Opinion | India's Sports Supremacy Over Pakistan Reflects Political, Economic Trajectory Of Two Nations

A cursory look at the outcomes of matches in the last 10 years tell a story of a country in rise and its neighbour in sharp decline.

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Opinion | Time To Spoon Off The Creamy Layer, Make Caste Reservation A Win-Win

If the creamy layer is not spooned off, reservation risks becoming a closed circuit of privilege for those who have already availed reservation.

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Opinion: ‘Dimagi Naxal’ Is PM Modi’s Pre-Emptive Strike Against Agents Of Anarchy

“Dimagi Naxal” is a crisp, intuitive term which gives great ideological clarity to ordinary Indians. By using it from Red Fort, Modi is calling...

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Opinion | Can Tarique Rahman Seize A Historic Moment To Reset India Ties, Rebuild Bangladesh?

The Bangladesh PM faces pressure from Jamaat, a weakening economy and strained India ties. A reset with New Delhi could offer a crucial political and...

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Opinion: Five Reasons Why BJP Is Faced With An Urban Youth Disconnect

If there is one party that can be nimble-footed despite its elephantine size in recovering lost ground and getting vulnerable-to-be-misled youngsters...

09.08.2026 40

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Opinion | Global Media And Activist Outrage: What’s Good For Gaza Isn’t Good For PoJK

Bullet-sprayed bodies of the innocent in PoJK do not draw outrage in the West’s activist circles. Global activism stops at the borders of universal...

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Opinion | (Part- 2) Kamakoti Episode Exposes Congress’s Antipathy Towards The Indic Universe

A litany of such incidents demonstrates the Congress leadership’s hostility to the faith practised by the nation’s majority

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Opinion | (Part-1) Priyanka Vadra’s Kamakoti Hit Job: How Congress Brings Anti-Indic Bias To Science

The Congress does not seem to spare anybody who shows any respect for his or her Hindu faith or the Indic wisdom of this land

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Opinion | Perimeter Control To Pellet Gun: Why Delhi Protest Policing Needs A Hard Look

Instead of preemptive action, a cornered force was left to awkwardly defend itself, leading to visuals that did not elicit any public sympathy for the...

28.07.2026 60

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Opinion | Can Nilekani’s Team Better China, S Korea, Singapore, And US Models Against Exam Leaks?

China’s Gaokao model is widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and leak-resistant, handling over 13 million candidates annually with rare...

27.07.2026 40

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Opinion | Rahul Gandhi, Don’t Mess With Security Of A PM Whom 98 Crore Voters Put In Office

Rahul Gandhi publicly calling on “all patriotic people” to join the sit-in could have rapidly escalated into an uncontrolled mob.

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Opinion | David’s Star And Messi: Why Argentina Riles Up Islamists And The Global Left

When Argentina faces off with Spain on Sunday, a lot more than football will be at play

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Opinion | With TMC In Pieces, BJP Can Now ‘Handpick’ Its Opposition In West Bengal

Mamata Banerjee’s once-formidable TMC has shattered into three large pieces after 15 brutal and corrupt years in power.

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Opinion | What Rattled India's Enemies, Triggered Media Hitjobs About Modi's Visit Down Under

Why the sudden, sharp edge to animosity towards PM Modi? The truth lies in the scale of what his visit Down Under has achieved

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Opinion | Caste Will Be The Sole Big Weapon Against Yogi Adityanath In UP Elections

Yogi can’t ignore caste. But as the monk who leads India’s most populous state, he must also transcend it.

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Opinion | Citizen Vigilante Is Poorly Made, But Powerfully Portends Dark Storms In The West

Citizen Vigilante is not nuanced storytelling or captivating cinema

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Opinion | India’s Constitution, Not Just BJP, Exempts Tribals From Uniform Civil Code

Like West Bengal, the other BJP state governments like Uttarakhand, Gujarat, and Assam have also kept scheduled tribes out of UCC.

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Opinion | How New FCRA Laws Are A Shield Against ‘Jesus Corridor’ & Demographic Shifts

There is a growing buzz about a so-called 'Jesus Corridor' stretching from north Bengal through the Bodo areas, Assam’s tea belts, Sikkim, and...

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Opinion: Sajjad Nomani’s Rant On Hindus Makes A Serious Case For AIMPLB Makeover

Nomani’s statement shows how outdated and disconnected the Board has become

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Opinion | Modi In The Mind: PM’s Six Biggest Intangible Feats In 12 Years

The true scale of the Modi phenomenon lies in subtle yet profound shifts in India’s collective psyche, and how he has altered the way individuals...

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Opinion | A New Football: How Geopolitics Of Security, Immigration Is Playing Out In FIFA World Cup

Outside the field, football is entering a new space with geopolitical complexities, national security, relationships between the host nations, and...

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Opinion | Yogi’s Uttar Pradesh Is Not Just Saffron, But A Deep Shade Of Green Too

The state’s attempt to future-proof its development model could become a case study for overpopulated regions the world over

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Opinion | Vijay, Annamalai & The Cockroaches: Can BJP Harness Indian Youth’s New Restlessness?

The BJP has recently got its youngest president, Nitin Nabin, and constantly brings in new faces. That works as a bulwark against ‘Gen Z coups’

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Opinion | Mamata Banerjee May Lose Both Party And Symbol As Shiv Sena-Like Split Looms Over TMC

The strongest and most compelling push for disintegration is coming from where Trinamool ironically took its name—the grassroots

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Opinion | How Is Crackdown On Crackers And Colours Fine, But Open Animal Killing Isn’t?

In three decades or so, Hindu festivals have seen “progressive” restrictions through the Supreme Court and state pollution boards. But Muslim...

28.05.2026 70

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Opinion | Delhi Gymkhana Club’s Colonial Elitism Must Make Way For Something Of Public Value

Delhi Gymkhana’s institutional capture has reached a point where new members reportedly pay Rs 30-40 lakh upfront but have to wait 37 years to get...

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Opinion | Falta Rout Completes The Slaying Of TMC’s Brutal Diamond Harbour Model

Sunday’s re-poll results signalled the fall of ‘syndicate raj’ — a venomous mix of muscle, cut-money, smuggling networks, and political intimidation.

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Opinion | Kerala’s Great Secular Hypocrisy: BJP’s Inclusion Vs IUML’s Greenwash

Kerala demonstrates how the so-called secular parties treat minorities as captive vote banks and keep them dependent, ghettoised, and grateful for...

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Opinion | Mamata Banerjee’s Cosplay Comes From Deep Cultural Insecurity As The ‘Unintellectual’ Bengali

While Mamata serviced her whims and insecurities, West Bengal’s spineless intelligentsia, film personalities, and vice chancellors of universities...

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Opinion: Muslims Must Decide If They Want To Keep Opposing BJP En Bloc Or Engage With It

It is time for Muslims to introspect and act instead of habitually blaming everyone around

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Opinion | Know Your Enemy: How BJP Radically Reframed Its Strategy Against TMC And Won

The BJP framed the polls as a battle against TMC’s entrenched ‘syndicate raj’—a network of political muscle, corruption & extortion—rather...

07.05.2026 70

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Opinion | Fence-Sitter Exit Polls: Why Calling West Bengal Elections 2026 Is So Tough

The hesitation to call the polls is understandable. The election is proving to be one of the most unpredictable in recent history

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