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What the Pelicot rape case tells us

The Pelicot rape trial has reminded the world of the tenuousness of a woman’s sense of safety. Gisèle has done her bit. But where do we go from...

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Opinion | The Fall Of Damascus And Lessons In Liberalism For Delhi

The undermining of liberal values by liberals themselves, the ascent of conservative forces, the politics of exclusion, we have seen it all.

11.12.2024 10

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Opinion: High Time Men In Military Accepted Women As Equal

Time and again, a harsh but obvious truth asserts itself - men cannot stand women. The latest example is the outgoing Corps Commander (17 Corps) Lt...

01.12.2024 10

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Opinion | Delhi's Air Pollution Situation Is Like A Bad Marriage

We, the people of Delhi, are in a bad marriage with the city. This marriage is beyond redemption, but both parties dither in calling it quits. Because...

22.11.2024 7

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Blog | How To Grieve During A Global Crisis? Leave It Untamed, Like Actor Sandhya Mridul

“My brother forced my pen to move.” That's what Sandhya Mridul, a Hindi cinema and TV artist, says about the motivation behind her debut book of...

15.11.2024 10

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Opinion | Why Did Kamala Harris Lose? Because Democrats Guilt-Tripped Americans

It's not misogyny that defeated Kamala Harris. There is a certain insincerity lurking behind this explanation for the decisive victory of the...

08.11.2024 10

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Opinion | Harris vs Trump: The Unbearable Absurdity Of US Presidential Polls

All of us can be forgiven for mistaking 2024 as the year of the longest-running live TV entertainment. Thankfully, one leg of it is over. As the votes...

06.11.2024 10

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Opinion | Rohit Bal And The Grandiosity Of Grief

“Irreparable loss,” the phrase that leapt out for this author from economist and author Bibek Debroy's last piece of public writing published...

02.11.2024 10

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Opinion | India And China: Let LEDs, Microchips Lead The Way

In the annals of history, few narratives illuminate the dynamics of international relations as vividly as trade. The East India Company's interest in...

30.10.2024 10

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Opinion | India At BRICS And The Curious Case Of Iran

All eyes have been on Iran for more than a year. Naturally, the first BRICS summit with Tehran's membership is bound to breed speculation about what...

24.10.2024 10

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Opinion | India-Canada Row: When Fiction Is As Important As Facts

"We're not so different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weakness in one another's systems. Don't you think it's time to...

17.10.2024 60

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Blog | Ratan Tata's Last Weekend, In Goa: Seeing The Universe In A Grain of Sand

"If it's good for Ratan Tata, it's good for us" was my saintly-strictly in the sense of being indifferent to extravaganza-husband's winning line last...

10.10.2024 30

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Opinion | Jammu & Kashmir Shows The World Democracy Is Not An Optional Activity

"It's good these people are in jail," a fruit seller shared his frustration, keeping his shop open despite a lowered shutter in response to the...

09.10.2024 7

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Opinion | You Got An iPhone, Now Think Of 'Envy Imperialism'

Typing this essay on a MacBook Air, tethered to an iPhone Pro (not the latest model) for accessing the internet, reeks of hypocrisy. Yet, certain...

06.10.2024 10

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What P Diddy-Bieber history says about male sex abuse

The problem with sexual abuse, as suspected in the Diddy-Bieber case, is twofold — the impact and the perpetrator-victim dynamic

03.10.2024 7

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Opinion | New Delhi's Air Quality May Choke Its Geopolitical Influence

In an ongoing hearing, the Supreme Court of India has decried the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) for not serving its purpose. The...

30.09.2024 4

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Opinion | Why Netflix's Kaos Is The Perfect Primer On Today's Geopolitics

"You should have married me," the lover said ruefully.  "Then I'd be doing this with him." 'This' being a sweaty steamy rendezvous on a yacht.  It...

19.09.2024 9

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Opinion | Trump-Harris Debate: It's About Entertainment, Stupid

Votaries of the US presidential debate - including many of our senior politicians - may want to hold their horses. The first presidential debate...

12.09.2024 10

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Blog | 'Don't Do Drama': My Story Of Online Sexual Harassment Isn't Mine Alone

I'll be 39 in exactly ten days. I'm a mother of two daughters-21 and 15. I have all the privileges that you can count-caste, class, religion, skin...

10.09.2024 10

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Opinion | IC 814 Row: What's In A Name? Just A Reason To Outrage

(In light of the controversy over the Netflix series 'IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack', here is a view on the 1999 hijack and its aftermath. Click here to...

04.09.2024 8

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Blog | Why Do You Think Your Dog Needs You? Because You're Selfish

"Could we really scan a dog's brain to figure out what it was thinking? Would we find proof that dogs love us?" In the prologue to his trailblazing...

28.08.2024 8

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Opinion | The Realism We Are Missing In Modi's Ukraine Trip

The Russia-Ukraine war started exactly two years ago. The very next day, on February 25, 2022, India abstained from voting on a draft resolution in...

24.08.2024 10

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Opinion | Trump, Musk, And The Importance Of 'Exaggeration' In Storytelling

"Why harp on the facts, it's the exaggerations that makes a tale interesting!" A favourite aunt once exclaimed when I tried to fact-check a funny...

16.08.2024 7

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Opinion | Vinesh Phogat, The Darned Woman Athlete Taking Our Breath Away

Some victories are sweeter than others, some defeats more bitter, whatever the arena be. But what about the cruelty of fate? How does one take heart?...

08.08.2024 10

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Opinion | Sheikh Hasina: When The Hunted Is Also The Hunter

'In my beginning is my end.'  There is no situation in the world that cannot be explained through poetry in general, T.S. Eliot's in particular....

05.08.2024 7

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Opinion | India's Neglect Of Its Athletes Is Also An Olympic-Time Story

So what if our team turned up in an eyesore of a formal kit at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics? Our shaadi ceremonies are way grander than...

29.07.2024 10

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Opinion | Kamala Harris, The Woman Left To Clean Up Joe Biden's Mess

"We did it, Joe," exclaimed the 49th Vice-President of the United States four years ago-the phrase becoming a war cry of sorts, coming from a...

25.07.2024 10

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Opinion | Hugs Aside, This Is How Much India And Russia Really Mean To Each Other

Everyone loves a good host. Everyone loves a powerful host. Everyone loves a host who gives guided tours. In this limited regard, the Prime Minister...

12.07.2024 10

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Opinion | Hathras And The Making Of Superhero 'Babas'

The day Baba died, my childhood breathed its last, too. I was in Benares, shooting a documentary, when a text message from my mother on the family...

08.07.2024 10

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Biden versus Trump as a modern Greek tragedy

Is the presidential debate an act of intervention for the public at large in the US and abroad? It would seem so, going by the public response to the...

01.07.2024 10

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Biden versus Trump is a modern Greek tragedy

Is the presidential debate an act of intervention for the public at large in the US and abroad? It would seem so, going by the public response to the...

01.07.2024 8

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Opinion | Cricket, Power, And India's T20 Glory In Barbados

A Mouthful of Sky. A heart rate dangerously above normal. A pulsating country of 1.5 billion people erupting in joy and frenzy. Even before India...

01.07.2024 10

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Opinion | The Curse Of Delhi Heat, And The Charisma Of Our Short-Term Memory

Credit: Reuters Delhi's meteorological and political climates seem to be in perfect sync this year. After the infernal heat and dust, the city is...

26.06.2024 40

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Opinion | Yoga: Teachers, Tough Love, And The Twinning Of Mind And Body

My yoga class is a microcosm of modern society. A group of individuals coming together in a spatio-temporal context to achieve different goals. It is...

21.06.2024 9

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Opinion | ABCD Of Coalition Government: Where Do We Go From Here?

No, this essay is not an alphabet primer on coalition politics for dummies. The youth of India, coming into their political being in the last decade...

13.06.2024 8

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Opinion | Arrogance, EVMs And Uttar Pradesh: Key Lessons From Election 2024

"When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure...

05.06.2024 20

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Opinion | Voting, Exit Polls And Aftermath: Savour Democracy In All Its Forms

Everyone loves a good exit poll. A good exit poll is, essentially speaking, a controversial one. The period between the last minute of the polling in...

03.06.2024 10

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Opinion | Election And Its Aftermath: Savour Democracy, In All Its Dimensions

Everyone loves a good exit poll. A good exit poll is, essentially speaking, a controversial one. The period between the last minute of the polling in...

03.06.2024 20

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Opinion | Mujra Is A Competitive Site - Much Like Elections

Mah Laqa Bai in the court of Raja Rao Rambha Bahadur Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons "Delhi was a city of courtesans who wielded extraordinary...

29.05.2024 30

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‘Knife’ cuts through the debate on free speech

Knife, his latest is a sharp work of literature that cuts the flab of Joseph Anton and presents Rushdie as barebones.

24.05.2024 10

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Opinion | Iran President Raisi, A Parable For The Times

The fireworks and jubilation in some quarters of Iran over President Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash are an ocular reminder of the...

22.05.2024 40

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Opinion | Met Gala: Fashion, Faiz, And The Fragility of Bodies

What is this pervasive fragrance in our Garden of Time? Can we pick the notes? Is it that of dissent or conformity? Is the garden resonant with an ode...

08.05.2024 40

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Opinion | Labour Day Special Toast to Wine and Work - Real And Pretentious

In many countries, May Day is celebrated by raising a wine glass to toast the fruit of human labour that makes the world go round. It is ironic,...

01.05.2024 10

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Opinion | Nationalism And Elections: BJP Understands, Opposition Still Doesn't

In 1989, when people 'defected' to vote the Indian National Congress government out, leading to a minority National Front government, there were loud...

20.04.2024 10

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Opinion | This Election Season, Even Shakespeare's Fool Wants You To Think

Vinay Pathak in Nothing Like Lear Courtesy: Unmask Studio Vinay Pathak wakes up to bad news one day. Out of habit, as he opens the newspaper to...

18.04.2024 20

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At the Oscars, a reiteration of American exceptionalism

In the Oppenheimer universe, the US is right even when the US is wrong.

15.03.2024 6

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Opinion: Men Need To Stop Raping Women. That's It

Yet another woman has been raped in India. She's part of the crime statistics this time because she happens to be a foreigner, a traveller, a vlogger,...

05.03.2024 40

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Opinion: Men Need To Stop Raping Women. That's It

Yet another woman has been raped in India. She's part of the crime statistics this time because she happens to be a foreigner, a traveller, a vlogger,...

05.03.2024 20

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Opinion: Bvlgari To Tiffany, All Want A Piece Of Indian Men's 'Maharaja' Dreams

While it may still be some time before Indian men go all Timothée Chalamet in donning Cartier necklaces while stepping out, luxury jewellery brands...

27.02.2024 8

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Opinion: Fashionable Collaborators Of Murderous Regimes, Beware!

Are there any mitigating circumstances for the actions of the collaborators of a murderous regime?  In the graveyards of empires, the tombstones of...

21.02.2024 10

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