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Upending ‘universal adult franchise’, ECI style

On 14 August, after hearing the SIR petitions over three days, the Supreme Court bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi directed the...

17.08.2025 2

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Ashok Swain

Why the US can but won’t stop Israel

Twenty-eight countries, including many hitherto reluctant to do so, have demanded an immediate end to Israel’s war in Gaza. Several, including...

17.08.2025 10

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Ashok Swain

Imaginary problem, unnecessary Bill

We celebrated Independence Day this month, the culmination of our freedom struggle. Independence and freedom from what? From alien rule and from...

17.08.2025 6

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Aakar Patel

When life-giving trees turn deadly

On the eve of Independence Day, during heavy rain in South Delhi’s Kalkaji, a 50-year-old man sought shelter beneath a neem tree. Tragically, the...

16.08.2025 3

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Pankaj Chaturvedi

The price India pays for Modi’s American dream

If Narendra Modi loses power before completing his current term, one reason would be his failure to anticipate and arrest the bonfire lit by US...

16.08.2025 20

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Ashis Ray

A defining moment for the Election Commission

Demand that Rahul Gandhi should make his charges against ECI under oath or apologise to the nation indicates unease within the ECI in the face of...

11.08.2025 8

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Jagdish Rattanani

When PM Modi ran with the hare and hunted with the hound

In February 2018, the White House drew up the ‘US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific’. This paper from the first Trump administration,...

11.08.2025 1

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Aakar Patel

When only love remains

I have just returned from my hometown, Kanpur, after severing the last remaining physical link with my late parents, with the tangible legacies of...

10.08.2025 10

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Ashis Ray

Life after a bromance gone wrong

Looks like the Trump–Modi bromance is officially over. On 6 August, the reliably unpredictable US President announced an additional 25 per cent...

10.08.2025 3

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Ashis Ray

Just hollow words till there’s real action

For decades, the recognition of a Palestinian state has been an aspiration, an act of diplomatic symbolism embraced by the majority of the Global...

10.08.2025 10

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Ashok Swain

Trump’s tariff shock and why India must act now

Now is not the time to teach basic international macroeconomics to the President of the United States of America. Renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs...

10.08.2025 4

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Ajit Ranade

Hand on your heart—can you really say this country is free?

When seven of every ten people in the country feel despondent, can we still, hand on our hearts, say we are free? As we prepare to celebrate yet...

10.08.2025 4

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Krishna Pratap Singh

ECI silent on five ‘misleading’ claims on voter-list fraud

Following the disclosure of a massive ‘voter list fraud’ or 'vote chori (theft) on 7 August by Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, the BJP...

09.08.2025 10

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Aj Prabal