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The Emergency: A political battle and a personal story

As India marks the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Emergency, Rohan Jaitley reflects on his father's imprisonment and the fight for democracy.

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Hindustantimes Editorial

The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: Dalai Lama confirms the institution will continue

The Dalai Lama believed that he should be succeeded by a democratic leader elected by Tibetans.

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Vir Sanghvi

Vision to reality: The digital India journey

In a decade, Digital India has become a people’s movement central to building an Aatmanirbhar Bharat and making India a trusted innovation partner...

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Narendra Modi

Quad remains resilient. But everyone wants to be friends with China again

Quad's recent statement in DC highlights growing criticism of China, emphasizing maritime and economic security while addressing its coercive...

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Prashant Jha

Short Stream | ‘GAIA’ by Abhay Kapoor

Political intrigue, artificial intelligence, romantic love —Abhay Kapoor’s ‘GAIA’ is a thriller that poses existential questions in the age of AI...

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Sanjukta Sharma

The case for two time zones for India

There are several gains that could flow from this, including enhanced productivity, biological synchronicity with daylight, and energy savings

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Old horizons and India’s new heritage diplomacy

India has the potential to play a role in global heritage diplomacy. This is not just about excavating abroad to cater to popular ideas and...

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Honeymoon Murder: Meghalaya emerges from a month of gloomy headlines, perception

From 10.2 lakh visitors in 2022, the number had surged to over 16 lakh in 2024. Meghalaya was poised to touch the 20-lakh mark in 2025

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Axiom-4 boost for Isro’s manned spaceflight plans

Shubhanshu Shukla’s experience in space on board Axiom-4 will help bridge the gap between extensive ground-based training and invaluable real-world...

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Somak Raychaudhury

Why India must tap its wastewater prospects

A country that aims to supply piped drinking water to every rural household continues to lose billions of litres of water daily because of...

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Keeping up with UP: Tread carefully on Banke Bihari temple corridor in Vrindavan

The idea was mooted in the first tenure of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who is now hopeful of completing it in his second term

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Nato remains ambiguous about goals in new world

At the 2025 Nato Summit, all 32 nations agreed to raise defence spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, amidst concerns of strategic ambiguity and internal...

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Gurjit Singh

The art and science of healing needs revival

While the medical fraternity needs to reboot service and ethics, society, law keepers and the government should reboot to support the physician at...

01.07.2025 4

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Hindustantimes Editorial

The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: Indian cuisine’s forgotten sophistication

We started doing it thousands of years before the West had any restaurants at all, let alone a Michelin guide.

01.07.2025 3

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Vir Sanghvi

Mind the Gap: It’s 2025. Why is male still the default gender?

Time to junk the male default model that is everywhere from medicine to entire cities.

01.07.2025 5

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Namita Bhandare

India must transition from fourth largest economy to an economy of consequences

The challenge with India’s current ranking as the world’s 4th-largest economy is that it reflects primarily the size of market

01.07.2025 3

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Happymon Jacob

The lottery of life & the role of the State

What India needs is a dynamic and granular database on socio-economic inequalities.

01.07.2025 5

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Pramit Bhattacharya

A mission for a tech-forward future

The NM-ICPS will help India shape the rules, build the tools, and train the minds that will define this century’s technological landscape.

01.07.2025 4

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V. Ramgopal Rao

Ecostani: Timing of SIR in Bihar raises concerns over electoral process fairness

Political parties and experts are apprehensive about the exercise claiming that SIR is aimed at disenfranchising people from the deprived sections

01.07.2025 4

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Chetan Chauhan

In birth centenary year, a new Satish Gujral work

In birth centenary year, a new Satish Gujral work

Gujral’s work has been likened to his own condition, but attributing the power of his early works to his hearing disability is doing the artist a...

30.06.2025 3

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Just Like That | Shankara’s thoughts and their overlap with Kashmir Shaivism

Just Like That | Shankara’s thoughts and their overlap with Kashmir Shaivism

Fact and legend both indicate that Shankara visited Kashmir, which was the locus of a specific kind of Shaivite philosophy

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Pavan K Varma

Book Box: How to cope with AI anxiety

Book Box: How to cope with AI anxiety

AI writing is pervasive, prompting mixed feelings. While some resist it, others explore its complexities, urging for ethical practices and...

30.06.2025 1

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Sonya Dutta Choudhury

On khula, a reiteration of existing jurisprudence

On khula, a reiteration of existing jurisprudence

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act has not affected in the least the correct Islamic procedures

30.06.2025 20

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Tahir Mahmood

Winners and losers in the Israel-Iran-US conflict

Winners and losers in the Israel-Iran-US conflict

The Iran-Israel aerial conflict may have paused, but tensions remain high, fueled by aggressive rhetoric from Trump and Khamenei over nuclear threats.

30.06.2025 8

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Shashi Shekhar

Transgender rights & transforming society

Transgender rights & transforming society

To read We Will Not Be Erased: The Courage to Rise Above Hate, is to ride alongside a journey of despair and discovery, rejection and redemption.

29.06.2025 9

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Namita Bhandare

Emergency, seen in the cartoons of Sudhir Dar

Emergency, seen in the cartoons of Sudhir Dar

The Emergency of 1975 tested the Press severely; through satire and subtle reporting, they highlighted censorship, ultimately influencing public...

29.06.2025 7

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Saving Veeraswamy, a British institution

Saving Veeraswamy, a British institution

The Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) dined at Veeraswamy so frequently that his coat of arms used to adorn the entrance.

29.06.2025 3

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Karan Thapar

Clearing the fog on the state of India-US relations

Clearing the fog on the state of India-US relations

The vision laid out by PM Modi and President Trump in a joint statement in February guides the different contours of the relationship at the...

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Rudra Chaudhuri