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External risks to India’s growth momentum require deft handling

Global economy faces trade policy shocks and geopolitical tensions. This weighs heavy on India

yesterday 10

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Tavleen Singh

SCO is a reminder: India needs to rethink its regional policy

Delhi can’t rely on multilateral forums to fight battle against terror.

yesterday 20

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Tavleen Singh

India doesn’t seek a multipolar world — it’s already here

Strategic autonomy gives India space to manoeuvre amid global uncertainty.

yesterday 10

Indian Express

V Anantha Nageswaran

The myths and utopias of two nationalisms

Constitutional nationalism aims at correction; Hindutva nationalism seeks retribution. Can the two ever meet?

yesterday 10

Indian Express

G N Devy

For renewal of Western Ghats, put people at the centre

The process of democratic decentralisation should help in the region’s ecological revival

yesterday 40

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Madhav Gadgil

A copy-paste apology signals unreliability

A copy-paste apology signals unreliability

It’s impossible to look at the randomness of this airline crash and not realise how tenuous our foothold on earth really is. Intellectually, we may...

previous day 3

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Leher Kala

A forgotten cricketing bond between India and Pakistan

A forgotten cricketing bond between India and Pakistan

It’s hard to believe that not too long back, 1996 to be precise, a combined India-Pakistan cricket XI faced Sri Lanka in Colombo in a show of Asian...

previous day 5

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Gulu Ezekiel

P Chidambaram writes | MoF: Accept or reject, don’t ignore

P Chidambaram writes | MoF: Accept or reject, don’t ignore

The GST laws have added to the burdens of business. The high and multiple rates of GST are per se bad. The rules, regulations, notifications, forms...

previous day 4

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P Chidambaram

Tavleen Singh writes: In praise of Democracy

Tavleen Singh writes: In praise of Democracy

We may not be the ‘Mother of democracy’ as our Prime Minister likes to tell the world, but in modern times, we have been a democratic republic, and...

previous day 2

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Tavleen Singh

DU’s new tie-breaker for undergraduate admissions: Tripping on reform

DU’s new tie-breaker for undergraduate admissions: Tripping on reform

It could bring back anxieties that CUET was designed to eliminate

saturday 10

Indian Express

Arjun Ram Meghwal

Prada reps kolhapuri chappals: Grace is always in vogue

Prada reps kolhapuri chappals: Grace is always in vogue

With Prada yet to make the details of its latest collection public, it still has the chance to give credit where it's due. Hopefully, it doesn't...

saturday 10

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Arjun Ram Meghwal

Express View on Sensex closing at a 84,059 high: For now, a reprieve

Express View on Sensex closing at a 84,059 high: For now, a reprieve

Lowering of tensions, de-escalation of Trump's tariff war, bring relief for global economy. It may be temporary

saturday 10

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Arjun Ram Meghwal

Arjun Ram Meghwal writes on Emergency: Democracy demands vigilance

Arjun Ram Meghwal writes on Emergency: Democracy demands vigilance

The period revealed how fragile liberty can be in the face of unchallenged power.

saturday 2

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Arjun Ram Meghwal

Delhi’s lose-lose foreign policy approach with Israel and Palestine

Delhi’s lose-lose foreign policy approach with Israel and Palestine

While pursuing perceived strategic advantages through closer ties with Israel, India has neither secured opportunities it seeks nor maintained its...

saturday 2

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Manoj Kumar Jha

Ram Madhav writes: India and the new world order

Ram Madhav writes: India and the new world order

It is time India reconfigured its global engagements, going beyond old-world romanticism and Cold War calculations

saturday 3

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Ram Madhav

US should negotiate a successor to JCPOA with Iran. Now is the time

US should negotiate a successor to JCPOA with Iran. Now is the time

Iran’s options, too, are limited. Tehran must worry that both Israel and the US will resume attacks, and not just on nuclear facilities, and that...

saturday 1

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Kanti Bajpai

The Age of Selfie, now in museums

The Age of Selfie, now in museums

A visitor at Uffizi Gallery accidentally damaged a painting while posing with it. Is this the beginning of a new era of performance art?

27.06.2025 9

Indian Express

Bhaswati Mukherjee

Express View: Asia on the boil

Express View: Asia on the boil

Report on continent heating up faster than rest of the world must push policymakers to find ways to enable people to adapt to weather vagaries.

27.06.2025 10

Indian Express

Bhaswati Mukherjee

Shubhanshu Shukla’s space odyssey: A glimpse into what the future holds for India

Shubhanshu Shukla’s space odyssey: A glimpse into what the future holds for India

Shukla’s flight is both an opportunity and a precursor to indigenous human spaceflight, international cooperation

27.06.2025 7

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Mylswamy Annadurai

Income survey will help map changes in Indian economy

Income survey will help map changes in Indian economy

Government's decision to conduct a household income survey is welcome. It should learn from past exercises and experiences of other countries.

27.06.2025 20

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Bhaswati Mukherjee

Six takeaways from war-torn West Asia

India’s bilateral relations with Israel have acquired a new chemistry and are at an all-time high but Iran is a partner that cannot be dispensed...

27.06.2025 20

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Pankaj Saran

Unlike Congress, BJP has come down hard on terror

Unlike Congress, BJP has come down hard on terror

National security crises are ultimately a test of political mettle. Prime Minister Modi’s actions show a leader making rational, resolute decisions...

27.06.2025 7

Indian Express

Bhaswati Mukherjee

Zohran Mamdani's win, at a time when the migrant is under siege in US, is heartening

Zohran Mamdani's win, at a time when the migrant is under siege in US, is heartening

In his campaign, there are lessons in political communication that liberal politicians might want to heed.

26.06.2025 4

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Hitesh Jain

Axiom-4 and Shubhanshu Shukla's experience will provide critical inputs to India's space missions

Axiom-4 and Shubhanshu Shukla's experience will provide critical inputs to India's space missions

The task of sending humans into the vast unknown and bringing them back safely is more challenging than the Mars and Moon missions

26.06.2025 7

Indian Express

Hitesh Jain

C Raja Mohan writes: Eurasian powers must find political answers to security problems

C Raja Mohan writes: Eurasian powers must find political answers to security problems

As Trump questions NATO’s relevance and pushes for disengagement, the Indo-Pacific will have to weigh in on new partnerships and independent...

26.06.2025 3

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C. Raja Mohan

Ramin Jahanbegloo writes: After Iran-Israel war, a different Middle East

Ramin Jahanbegloo writes: After Iran-Israel war, a different Middle East

Regime change is not an easy task. And Israel and US have been able to set back Iran's nuclear capacities without permanently removing the threat

26.06.2025 1

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Ramin Jahanbegloo

Centre's outreach to tribal people can be starting point for bottom-up development. But it won't be easy

Centre's outreach to tribal people can be starting point for bottom-up development. But it won't be easy

Two schemes aim to provide tribals with basic documents like Aadhaar and Ayushman Bharat cards, title under the Forest Rights Act, pension...

26.06.2025 7

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Hitesh Jain

Brinda Karat writes: From Barinda to Comrade Rita: Underground resistance during the Emergency

Brinda Karat writes: From Barinda to Comrade Rita: Underground resistance during the Emergency

50 years later, however awful it was at the time — it was just a dress rehearsal for what is happening today

26.06.2025 10

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Brinda Karat

Emergency sought to reduce judiciary to a cog in Congress’s machinery

Emergency sought to reduce judiciary to a cog in Congress’s machinery

The present government’s response to adverse verdicts is not interference with or dilution of the judicial process — it is democratic acceptance

26.06.2025 20

Indian Express

Hitesh Jain