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If Gaza’s corpses can vanish from our conscience, what else are we becoming blind to?

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Obesity is even worse for health than believed earlier. India can't ignore that

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Shalini Singh

As an artist and storyteller, Ratan Thiyam always came back to Manipur

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Abraar Ahmed

India-UK trade pact -- a template for deals with America and Europe

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Abraar Ahmed

Best of Both Sides: CBSE’s math levels will give students more options

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Abraar Ahmed

Jeffrey Epstein case shows Donald Trump is not MAGA's Pied Piper. There are lesson's for populist strongmen in that

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Aakash Joshi

On ground in Bihar, Election Commission of India writes a dystopian fiction

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Kamayani Swami

Best of Both Sides: CBSE's two levels of Math is a bad idea

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Subimal Bhattacharjee

Critical minerals are a strategic asset – India must not fall behind

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Amitabh Kant

Suhas Palshikar writes: Left Wing Extremism is a smokescreen. Maharashtra's new law could criminalise dissent

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Suhas Palshikar

India is exporting doctors and nurses. The country needs them too

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Sandhya Venkateswaran

The world must stop Israel from starving Gaza

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Abraar Ahmed

India, China and the Brahmaputra front

India, China and the Brahmaputra front

After inauguration of China's new project on Brahmaputra, India's plans to build storage facilities on the river must acquire urgency.

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Shalini Singh

When Ozzy Osbourne ate a bat – and became a heavy metal legend

When Ozzy Osbourne ate a bat – and became a heavy metal legend

Father of heavy metal and one of its most outlandish figures, Ozzy Osbourne leaves behind the music and the showmanship

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Shalini Singh

Breaking the TB chain

Breaking the TB chain

ICMR’s push for TB diagnostic tests in primary healthcare centres could be crucial for early detection and treatment of infection

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Shalini Singh

The outspoken Jagdeep Dhankhar must break silence on his resignation

The outspoken Jagdeep Dhankhar must break silence on his resignation

The Monday night announcement of Dhankhar's exit came virtually mid-sentence, with no evidence of consultation or discussion having preceded it....

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Dinshaw Pardiwala

V S Achuthanandan, a rebel with many causes

V S Achuthanandan, a rebel with many causes

The last survivor of the 32 members of the CPI national council who walked out to form the CPM in 1964, Achuthanandan remained a rebel throughout...

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Dinshaw Pardiwala

Does your politics matter on a dating app? Love should be about discovery

Does your politics matter on a dating app? Love should be about discovery

In Mamdani’s story about meeting his wife on a dating app, many see hope of finding their own perfect matches, sans the drama of unpleasant debate....

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Dinshaw Pardiwala

C Raja Mohan writes: PM Modi in the UK: Let go of the bilateral baggage

C Raja Mohan writes: PM Modi in the UK: Let go of the bilateral baggage

For too long, Delhi and London have underestimated what they could do for each other.

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C. Raja Mohan

What National Sports Policy can do for India's athletes

What National Sports Policy can do for India's athletes

For the first time in our nation’s sporting journey, we are embedding science, technology, and evidence-based medicine at the heart of athlete...

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Dinshaw Pardiwala

The reform India's power sector needed

The reform India's power sector needed

Removal of restrictions on thermal power plants provides respite to consumers. Faced with an assertive China and unpredictable US, India and the UK...

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R V Shahi

Jagdeep Dhankhar, a very political Vice President

Jagdeep Dhankhar, a very political Vice President

As governor and V-P, he appeared more partisan than his office demanded. And his battle with judiciary also casts a shadow

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Faizan Mustafa

V S Achuthanandan -- Communist, mass leader, icon

V S Achuthanandan -- Communist, mass leader, icon

As CM, the biggest allegation against V S was that he behaved more like the Opposition leader. The jibe was about the mass agitations he led – such...

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John Brittas

Designating TRF as a terrorist group is welcome, but US has a tendency to play both sides

Designating TRF as a terrorist group is welcome, but US has a tendency to play both sides

India must recognise that it is being watched, evaluated, and targeted by global powers who see it as both a partner and a pawn. Today, Pakistan's...

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Manoj K Channan

In Mumbai train blast case, acquittal 19 years later raises questions about criminal justice system

In Mumbai train blast case, acquittal 19 years later raises questions about criminal justice system

If we say that 'we have a history of failure in probes in terror cases', who is to be blamed? The police alone? Let us admit that it is a...

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Meeran Chadha Borwankar

Vice President resigns: Jagdeep Dhankhar's tenure as West Bengal Governor was a constitutional flashpoint

Vice President resigns: Jagdeep Dhankhar's tenure as West Bengal Governor was a constitutional flashpoint

By adopting a posture of public and persistent opposition to the elected state government, his term forced a debate on the very nature of the...

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Editorial

A former Pilot on Air India crash report: Foreign media are misleading the public. Wait for the final report

A former Pilot on Air India crash report: Foreign media are misleading the public. Wait for the final report

Some agencies have highlighted an exchange between the pilots about the “cut-off”. But this is a normal inquiry by a pilot in a situation where,...

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Editorial

Ancestral property rights for Adivasi women: Constitution's promise over customary law

Ancestral property rights for Adivasi women: Constitution's promise over customary law

Customary laws are important as a bulwark against forceful assimilation and homogenisation. At the same time, as the SC rightly pointed out '...

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Dinshaw Pardiwala

A musician's library -- when the written word isn't 'content'

A musician's library -- when the written word isn't 'content'

Rockstar Nick Cave's decision to donate 2000 books, rush for them is a reminder of a time when people had a more intimate relationship with what...

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Dinshaw Pardiwala

19 years after Mumbai train attack, there is no closure -- only unanswered questions

19 years after Mumbai train attack, there is no closure -- only unanswered questions

Botched investigations and trials that span decades do an added injustice to the victims

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Dinshaw Pardiwala

To improve both crop and human nutrition, India needs a paradigm shift

To improve both crop and human nutrition, India needs a paradigm shift

Only when soils receive the nutrients do they produce food that nourishes rather than merely fills stomachs. This is no longer just an agricultural...

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Ashok Gulati

The story of Indian women: Empowered and powerless

The story of Indian women: Empowered and powerless

Educational achievements and financial independence have become a double-edged sword for Indian women

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Mrinal Pande

SC ruling on evidence in matrimonial disputes raises questions about right to privacy

SC ruling on evidence in matrimonial disputes raises questions about right to privacy

Allowing covert evidence in matrimonial disputes is consequential. It could have a bearing on other kinds of matrimonial issues, including marital...

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Mrinal Pande

Assam evictions: Himanta Biswa Sarma government must not trade empathy for political expediency

Assam evictions: Himanta Biswa Sarma government must not trade empathy for political expediency

According to the state government, over 1.19 lakh bighas of land have been reclaimed since 2021 and over 50,000 people have been evicted. These...

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Mrinal Pande

India’s FDI challenge: In a world of shrinking investment, rising competition, capital will chase confidence, clarity

India’s FDI challenge: In a world of shrinking investment, rising competition, capital will chase confidence, clarity

India’s fundamentals — demographics, digital depth, and democratic stability —are attractive

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Sachchidanand Shukla

Kanwar yatra is not chaos. It is a radical act of equality and freedom

Kanwar yatra is not chaos. It is a radical act of equality and freedom

Not only does it challenge everyday social norms, but also provides an arena for alternative social imaginations performed through language,...

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Navdeep Suri

V S Achuthanandan, and a generation raised on memes

V S Achuthanandan, and a generation raised on memes

He taught the youth how to hold institutions accountable from within. For those who grew up seeing how dissent is criminalised and whistleblowers...

21.07.2025 2

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Akhil Pj

The Orwellian nightmare in Gaza

The Orwellian nightmare in Gaza

As Israel's war rages, the debasement of language, the inversion of meaning, is complete

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Navdeep Suri