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T. Kannan

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Mandate without mechanism ~I I

Mandate without mechanism ~I I

The mountains, for now, survive on a stay order and a committee’s promise; the corporate ledger survives on something thinner still. When a company...

06.07.2026 10

The Statesman

T Kannan

Mandate without mechanism ~ I

Mandate without mechanism ~ I

The Aravallis were old before the Himalayas were born, raised in the Proterozoic more than a billion years ago, and for most of that unimaginable span...

05.07.2026 20

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T Kannan

Honey On The Tongue

A file sits on a clerk’s desk. It is complete, stamped, in order ~ and it will not move. The applicant, a farmer or a small contractor or a widow...

26.06.2026 30

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T. Kannan

Cattle Shed Answer

On 28 February 2026, the war that diplomats had spent two years rehearsing began. American and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian nuclear and missile...

06.06.2026 30

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T Kannan

Shelved Knowledge

On the second of February 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay compressed an empire’s educational ambition into a single sentence: “a single shelf of a...

23.05.2026 30

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T Kannan

When the Anchor Slips

In August 2025, S&P Global Ratings upgraded India’s sovereign credit rating from BBB ~ to BBB ~ the first such elevation in eighteen years. The...

06.04.2026 20

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T Kannan

Witness and the Machine

When the chief executive of one of the world’s most consequential artificial intelligence companies publicly concedes that he cannot rule out the...

24.03.2026 30

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T Kannan