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Innovating in India: Biotech sector must lose its handcuffs in AI age

Innovating in India: Biotech sector must lose its handcuffs in AI age

From regulatory reforms to rewarding research and discoveries instead of patients treated, the existing ecosystem needs many changes to be future-...

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Vivek Wadhwa

Bihar Assembly polls: How the battle of the parties stacks up

Bihar Assembly polls: How the battle of the parties stacks up

Due to many reasons, Nitish’s third and fourth term weren’t very effective. This time around, he’s being attacked from various quarters.

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Shashi Shekhar

Leveraging trade deals for textile sector: Can UK FTA ease US tariff pain?

Leveraging trade deals for textile sector: Can UK FTA ease US tariff pain?

The challenge lies in whether Indian textile exporters can match or outperform such global competitors in speed, quality, and reliability

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Amarendu Nandy

How ancient India spread its culture without conquest

How ancient India spread its culture without conquest

Each of the six systems of Hindu philosophy is a search not for divinity but for what the truth could be behind the bewildering plurality of this...

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Pavan K Varma

Mother Mary Comes to Me: In which Arundhati gives it those ones

Mother Mary Comes to Me: In which Arundhati gives it those ones

Mother Mary Comes to Me is partly an account of Roy's troubled relationship with her mother Mary Roy, and partly the auto-biography of many periods...

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Karan Thapar

In Bihar, the focus is on the woman voter

In Bihar, the focus is on the woman voter

In Bihar, a state with a high male migrant population, women’s voter turnout has been higher than that of men since 2010

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Namita Bhandare

HistoriCity | India’s population through the ages

HistoriCity | India’s population through the ages

How do we possibly understand India’s demography in pre-modern times? As we move further back into the past, the sources of information on...

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Valay Singh

Imprint of the people in shaping the Constitution

Imprint of the people in shaping the Constitution

The Indian public understood that the Constitution was going to change their lives. It animated their concerns

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Rohit De

The opportunity for India in the H-1B squeeze

The opportunity for India in the H-1B squeeze

The US’s H-1B squeeze is a reminder of the opportunity and potential for world-class innovation for Indian IT at home

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Homebound and the duty audiences owe to good cinema

Homebound and the duty audiences owe to good cinema

As audiences of contemporary cinema, we often complain about the current state of Bollywood films. Homebound is that rare Hindi film which deserves...

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Kunal Ray

In poll-bound Bihar, signs of politician Prashant Kishor

In poll-bound Bihar, signs of politician Prashant Kishor

Everything about Kishor’s campaign is atypical. As is his blunt break from the political correctness around prohibition in the state

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Barkha Dutt

100 years of the RSS: The spirit remains unchanged

100 years of the RSS: The spirit remains unchanged

The RSS’s politics of engagement is reflected in the way it approaches regions and communities beyond its traditional base

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Saving student lives with institutional interventions

Saving student lives with institutional interventions

The majority of student suicides occur among those aged 18–30, the very demographic that should be shaping our country’s future

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Hindustantimes Editorial

An overlooked factor of flight safety in India

An overlooked factor of flight safety in India

While fatigue among commanders and crew has been facing scrutiny for some time now, the life and travails of ATCs often go unnoticed by the media

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Anjuli Bhargava

In Gujarat, Gandhi lives on in stories, in craftsmen

In Gujarat, Gandhi lives on in stories, in craftsmen

In Gujarat, Gandhi lives institutionally and instinctually. Gujarat has always offered a strange mix of responses to Gandhi

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Amrit Gangar

Today’s nuclear world needs Gandhi’s values

Today’s nuclear world needs Gandhi’s values

Before buttons of hatred are pressed and rockets fly, Gandhi’s espousal of non-violence to resist violence must be heard by the world

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Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Battle for West’s identity intensifies in the US, UK

Battle for West’s identity intensifies in the US, UK

Partisans of the struggle believe that the West is a civilisation, amongst the finest that humanity has seen, with its roots in classical Greece...

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Atul Mishra