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Ram Mandir theft: A test of our dharma, not of God’s power

Reports about the pilferage of donations to Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, about money being stashed away by the very people who were appointed for counting...

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Rahul Verma

Opportunity and avenues to save critical to women’s access to finance

The Global Findex Database is a demand-side survey on financial inclusion run by the World Bank every three years to track how adults around the world...

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Ankita Singh

Women at the forefront, again

Anoosheh says she knows exactly why she spent 15 to 16 hours a day at the Jantar Mantar protest. The class 12 student moved from Uttar Pradesh to the...

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Namita Bhandare

Questions for society after NEET protest: 'Will ministers' exit fix the system?'

The “cockroaches” have left Jantar Mantar after the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, the education minister. Their successful movement brought...

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Shashi Shekhar

The lingering impact of ‘super’ El Niño: Largest heat effect may still lie ahead

Anyone who watched Argentina’s football World Cup matches (before the final with Spain) will understand India’s monsoon this year. For long...

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Roxy Mathew Koll

Pakistan’s restive borders result from its crackdowns

‘It is not over till it’s over,’ goes a popular aphorism. In Pakistan, this applies not just to the insurgency in Balochistan — intermittent...

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Tara Kartha

An Uncle’s guide to understanding the Gen-Z protest

Imagine you are a kid who comes from nothing. You grew up being told that hard work is greater than even going to a place like Harvard. You worked...

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Prateek Chadha

Women are writing new rules for conservation

Conservation is not just ecological but also social, and there can be no capacity-building in this field without gender empowerment. Across India,...

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Lalita Panicker

Parting of speech: Birth of American English

George Bernard Shaw was spot on when he declared that the US and England are two countries separated by a common language. But so too was Henry...

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Karan Thapar

When resignation cleanses and restores lost stature

Dharmendra Pradhan should have resigned as Union education minister earlier. Perhaps — who knows? — he wanted to and was prepared to but was not...

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Gopalkrishna Gandhi

NEET can’t continue as a make-or-break exam

Two decades ago, on a hot Sunday afternoon, I was writing what felt like the most important exam of my life. It was a day I had been preparing for...

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Abhishek Asthana

HPV vaccination: The kryptonite for cervical cancer in India

For the first time since records began, no woman aged 20–24 died from cervical cancer in England over a five-year period. The reason was a vaccine...

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Ramanan Laxminarayan

The severed limb that helped shape Bombay University

On October 15, 1857, a havildar and a sepoy were marched onto the Esplanade in Bombay. Each was tied to the mouth of a cannon. The verdict — that...

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Rahul Sagar

Rocket in space to serve people on the ground

When Vikram-1 lifted off from Sriharikota on July 18, it marked more than a technological triumph. Developed by an Indian startup, Skyroot Aerospace,...

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Purvi Mehta

Myths and medicine on thyroid disorders

Every endocrinologist has encountered this conversation. “Doctor, I’ve put on 12 kilos because of my thyroid.” Or this one: “My thyroid tests...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Looking at the Gen Z protests, as a millennial parent

I write today as a parent to two Generation Z (Gen Z) individuals, as a witness to the current protests, somewhat cognizant of the challenges facing...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

The pathway for India to beat cervical cancer

For the first time since records began, no woman aged 20–24 died from cervical cancer in England over a five-year period. The reason was a vaccine...

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Ramanan Laxminarayan

The coming of age of India’s industrial policy

In 2025, India’s smartphone exports crossed a threshold that should change how India thinks about industrial policy. With exports of about ₹2.6...

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Amitabh Kant

Constitutional need for regulation of temples

One of the longest-standing debates in Indian constitutional law and politics has been around whether and to what extent the State should control the...

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Gautam Bhatia

Temples need to be freed of State control

Before India called itself secular, it had already learnt how to keep the sacred and the political apart. For nearly 25 years after Independence, the...

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Shubhrastha

Inflation pains may get worse this year: West Asia crisis, El Niño key triggers

The outlook on prices has yo-yoed in recent months — first rising, then falling and then rising again. Crude oil prices were easing before the...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

India needs adaptability, not reactive climate action

India’s greatest climate challenge today is not merely excessive or insufficient rainfall in certain parts of the region. Rather, it is the...

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Amit Kapoor

The State can’t afford to ignore this student protest

Every popular protest reaches a juncture when governments can no longer ignore it. The agitation led by the Cockroach Janata Party crossed that...

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Rahul Verma

Let’s make China work for us, securely: Domestic compute, good terms with US

Companies across the world are turning to Chinese open-weight models that now deliver near-frontier capability at a fraction of the cost, trailing the...

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Bharath Reddy

Man vs wild need not be our conservation model

As India advances toward Viksit Bharat 2047, the choices it makes about its natural ecosystems will be as consequential as the infrastructure it...

22.07.2026 10

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Suryaprabha Sadasivan

Police must urgently curb procedural lapses: Evidence must be made trustworthy

A woman gets bail because the police, arresting her for her husband’s murder, never told her why she was being arrested. A former chief minister...

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Pranav Jain

Terms of Trade: Four key takeaways from Monday’s protests

Delhi saw one of its largest ever student protests on Monday. The obvious comparisons are to the December 2012 protest, which erupted after the brutal...

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Roshan Kishore

Centrism is essential to sustaining democracy

Centrism is not indecision, but a conscious rejection of the emotional trauma, institutional decay and social fragmentation that result from...

21.07.2026 20

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Avishkar Singhvi

Real markers of success for ethanol blending: What it entails, why and how much?

India’s ethanol blending programme (EBP) has become one of the country’s more visible energy security interventions. Launched in 2014 to cut crude...

21.07.2026 20

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Hindustantimes Editorial

What Punjab and Haryana owe Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: Agriculture and labour cost

Earlier this year, three men on a motorcycle opened fire on a group of agricultural migrants in the Moga district of Punjab, injuring two. Nirvair...

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Srishti Yadav

Hallelujah! The government says yes to sex ed

In a remarkable and welcome turn of events, the central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it is ready to introduce comprehensive...

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Namita Bhandare

The true meaning of sovereign AI power

Power in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) is being built in chip factories, research labs, data centres and export control lists. The question...

20.07.2026 20

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Syed Akbaruddin

India isn’t the freeloader the US makes it out to be

US President Donald Trump never tires of calling India the “tariff king”, a country that taxes US goods heavily, sells far more to the US than it...

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Happymon Jacob

Bitter truths that ‘Satluj’ ignores: Of half-truths and biased narratives

Do the names Govind Ram and Rajan ring a bell? No? I will introduce you to both, but a little later in this column. Let’s first talk about the...

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Shashi Shekhar

Conflict, Hormuz & peace deal: The answers we don’t have on US-Iran war

We’ve reached a point where questions about the Gulf War seem more significant than the answers we have. It’s even arguable that neither side...

19.07.2026 20

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Karan Thapar

Weaving a fabric of enterprise on the loom of traditional skills

The India-France Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) was recently held in the University town of Aix en Provence where my French counterpart and I...

19.07.2026 20

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Women are choosing classrooms over chores: ‘What next?’

A teacher in school once told Rupal Dhall she should become a lawyer because she was so argumentative. That remark planted the seed of a dream....

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Namita Bhandare

Against a FIFA backdrop, football and feminism through maternal legacies

The real reason behind Argentina winning the FIFA World Cup 2026 semi-finals is actually crazier than the wildest speculations football — not to be...

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Nishtha Gautam

Boys watching deserve men worth watching

A few weeks ago, I got back from my 48th trip to India, playing in the Big Cricket League. It still gets me every time, the noise, the colour, the...

18.07.2026 20

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Ross Taylor

Protesting students, a hunger strike, and the rules of power

If you are looking at the impact of the hunger strike by Ladakh’s engineer-turned-activist Sonam Wangchuk at the protests organised by the Cockroach...

18.07.2026 20

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Barkha Dutt

Make buses comfortable to beat urban congestion

In April 2006, the Union government adopted the National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP) against the backdrop of rising urban congestion, air pollution,...

18.07.2026 20

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Op Agarwal

Old wine, but this time it promises potency

India’s draft National Health Research Policy, which was released for public comment in July, has notable strengths. First, the policy draft...

17.07.2026 20

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Ramanan Laxminarayan

Teja Singh Samundri is a hero for Sikhism & India

There are inheritances that do not come as wealth or possessions but as values, stories, and a sense of duty passed from one generation to the next....

17.07.2026 20

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Chennai’s airport game must take off post-haste

India’s airports have seen a dramatic makeover in almost all metro cities and several tier-II towns, largely due to the entry of the private sector...

17.07.2026 20

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Anjuli Bhargava

The chilling effect of judges getting threats

In August 2022, a group of men intercepted a vehicle carrying cattle in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district and assaulted its occupants on...

16.07.2026 20

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Insiyah Vahanvaty

On Puri’s Grand Road, a devotee’s submission

Many prayers and hymns dedicated to Shree Jagannatha have been there in my memory since childhood. I felt happy singing the bhajans of Mahaprabhu...

16.07.2026 20

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Droupadi Murmu

Civil engineering is trendy again, for the right reasons

Recent admission trends at India’s premier engineering institutions have revealed an encouraging shift. Civil engineering, which, for many years,...

16.07.2026 20

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Tg Sitharam

A shorter tax statute is not always a simpler tax law

Head: A shorter tax statute is not always a simpler tax law India’s Income Tax Act, 2025 has been celebrated as one of the most significant...

15.07.2026 20

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Dhaka should think of politics of reconciliation

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recently announced that she will return to Dhaka by December this year. “They may arrest me on my...

15.07.2026 20

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Hindustantimes Editorial

India walks. Its roads just don’t take notice

“Walkability is a European concept. People in India do not walk. You people from NGOs visit European cities, see people walking there, come back and...

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Sajith Sukumaran