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Point Blank: Luck Plays A Huge Role As India Struggles To Script A Coherent Foreign Policy

We have a grand strategic relationship with the United States. It is the grandest of all the strategic relationships we have, the showpiece, the...

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V Sudarshan

FPJ Analysis: Constitution (130th) Amendment Bill Sparks Row, Opposition Sees Threat To Federalism And Democracy

The bill, which was introduced by home minister Amit Shah out of the blue and in violation of parliamentary rules.

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S Balakrishnan

FPJ Analysis: European Union’s AI Act

According to the law, the generality of AI models can be determined, among others, when models use at least a billion parameters and are trained...

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Fpj Editorial

Mumbai Janmashtami 2025: Keeping The Govindas Safe

Dahi Handi has been among Maharashtra’s favourite festivals; its photos are displayed on tourist brochures, and spectators are dumbstruck to see...

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Fpj Editorial

Humanity Is Not Confined To Humans Only, It Includes All Life Forms

An American biologist wrote for The Reader's Digest, Canada edition, in 1973 that when poultry birds, cows, pigs, lambs, etc., are herded into one...

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Sumit Paul

PM’s Red Fort Speech Outlined India’s And His Own Future

PM Modi addressed the concerns of the nation and focused on how his government intends to shape the future of India. What many missed was that,...

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Ajay Jha

Election Commissioner Must Rectify, Not Retaliate

The very timing of the event — twelve days after Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi had raised charges of bogus voters and coinciding with his...

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Fpj Editorial

Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan For Vice President: BJP's Trusted Man

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has outsmarted the Opposition by swiftly announcing Maharashtra governor C.P. Radhakrishnan as its vice-...

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Fpj Editorial

Mumbai: A Harbour City Without A Harbour Vision

Mumbai’s eastern waterfront risks becoming another missed opportunity unless citizen-first planning prevails.

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Ankieta Kothari

ONOE: For India, It Is All About Setting The Right Traditions

A Joint Parliamentary Committee is presently considering the draft bill on “One Nation, One Election” (ONOE). India is a unique parliamentary...

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Manjeev Puri

PM Modi's 'Diwali Gift': Can India's Tax Overhaul Deliver On Its Promise?

On Independence Day this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood at the Red Fort and offered Indians a different kind of freedom pledge:...

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Jayanta Roy Chowdhury

Sudarshan Chakra Mission: India's Defence Shield In A Polarised World

The immediate impetus for a scaling up of weapons systems by 2035 to protect economic and defence assets obviously comes from Operation Sindoor,...

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Fpj Editorial

GST: Way Out From A Tangled Reality

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Goods and Services Tax at midnight in July 2017, he hailed it as a “Good and Simple Tax”, a reform...

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Fpj Editorial

Spectrum: Economic Reflections As We Celebrate Our Independence

We got our independence in 1947. Interestingly, every block of around 22 years marked a turning point when it came to economic policies. For the...

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Madan Sabnavis

South Asia Theatre: Great Power Politics, US, Pakistan & Terrorism

Having been a victim of terrorism itself, the US, as a world leader, should have come down heavily against Pakistan after the latest Pahalgam...

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Abhay Vaidya

Supreme Court Saves Village Mandate

The election, held in November 2022 as part of the statewide three-phase civic polls, saw Kuldeep Singh declared the winner over Mohit Kumar by a...

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Fpj Editorial

Sholay Turns 50: Gabbar Is Back, Only To Die This Time

The lot of Thakur, Gabbar, Jai, Veeru, and Basanti will be back to regale the audiences with their antics and recreate the magic of their crisp...

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Fpj Editorial

They Also Fought So That We Could Proudly Hoist The Tricolour

Rani Laxmibai is well known, with several books and movies made about how she declared, “Main apni Jhansi nahin doongi,” and fought the British on...

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Deepa Gahlot

ASI: The Age Of Biotech And Brain-Based Superintelligence

As the Financial Times Asia front page of August 7, 2025, highlights, the world’s frenzied build-out of AI capacity—led by hyperscalers like...

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Shailesh Haribhakti

Guiding Light: The Song Divine

The dark skies feel like nature’s own design for a festival that honours this divine birth on another stormy night, over 5,000 years ago, in a...

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Ritesh Aswaney