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Opinion | The Gulf Is Calling: India’s Moment To Move From Presence To Strategic Power

Opinion | The Gulf Is Calling: India’s Moment To Move From Presence To Strategic Power

India's economic expansion, energy security, maritime commerce and the welfare of millions of Indian citizens are directly connected to the stability...

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Prosenjit Nath

Global Watch | China’s Himalayan Information Gap: How Floods In Nepal Exposed Beijing

Global Watch | China’s Himalayan Information Gap: How Floods In Nepal Exposed Beijing

China shared weather warnings before the disaster, but the floods exposed a deeper gap in real-time hazard data from across the Tibetan frontier.

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Arun Anand

Opinion | RSS’s Hindutva Test: How Mohan Bhagwat’s New York Speech Has Exposed Fault Lines On Both Left & Right

Opinion | RSS’s Hindutva Test: How Mohan Bhagwat’s New York Speech Has Exposed Fault Lines On Both Left & Right

By trying to silence him, Bhagwat's opponents have ensured that his most inconvenient sentence, that Muslims belong in Bharat, is now the sentence...

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Adit Kothari

Opinion | Nailing The 'Statistical Lies' Of Subhash Garg On GDP

Opinion | Nailing The 'Statistical Lies' Of Subhash Garg On GDP

The 7.8% print is not an isolated instance. It follows a 7.7% GDP growth witnessed in FY26, which itself was an acceleration from the 7.1% growth seen...

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | Krishna In The Gulf: How Modi Made Temples Part Of India's Diplomacy

Opinion | Krishna In The Gulf: How Modi Made Temples Part Of India's Diplomacy

Hindu places of worship serve energy supply, remittances, trade targets and election messaging, all at once

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | Decoding The Importance Of PM Modi’s Uranium Diplomacy In India’s Nuclear Energy Target

Opinion | Decoding The Importance Of PM Modi’s Uranium Diplomacy In India’s Nuclear Energy Target

The equation is straightforward: secure the uranium, build the reactors, generate reliable clean power, reduce vulnerability to fossil-fuel shocks and...

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Bharat’s Diplomatic Moment: From Strategic Autonomy To Civilisational Leadership

Opinion | Bharat’s Diplomatic Moment: From Strategic Autonomy To Civilisational Leadership

PM Modi’s engagement with Putin and Pezeshkian demonstrates why a confident Bharat must speak to every side, not as a camp follower, but as an...

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Jauhar Was Not Surrender, It Was Medieval Women Defying Their Invaders

Opinion | Jauhar Was Not Surrender, It Was Medieval Women Defying Their Invaders

It is easy to pick random historical nuggets and scream “patriarchy”, but the reality of the jawhar tradition is a lot more nuanced.

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Nandini Sengupta

Opinion | How Myanmar’s Crystal Meth Is Upsetting India’s Strategic Calculus

Opinion | How Myanmar’s Crystal Meth Is Upsetting India’s Strategic Calculus

The northeastern states of Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland are facing acute frontline exposure to a surge in illicit drug production from Myanmar.

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Dr G Shreekumar Menon

Opinion | Why A Former Finance Secretary’s ‘GDP Manipulation’ Narrative Doesn’t Add Up

Opinion | Why A Former Finance Secretary’s ‘GDP Manipulation’ Narrative Doesn’t Add Up

Subhash Chandra Garg said India’s 7.8% GDP growth was inflated by marking down last year’s base, but a statistical audit of the official data...

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K Yatish Rajawat

Opinion | Manu And Moral Presentism: The Safest Book To Hate In India

Opinion | Manu And Moral Presentism: The Safest Book To Hate In India

The real test of progress is not how loudly we condemn a book that nobody follows, but whether we are willing to question ideas that continue to...

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Prajesh Panikkar

Opinion | Reel Deal: Have we Forgotten How To Disagree Without Picking A Side?

Opinion | Reel Deal: Have we Forgotten How To Disagree Without Picking A Side?

From Kriti Sanon’s Raksha Bandhan ad controversy to Taapsee Pannu and Kangana Ranaut’s latest exchange, why every Bollywood disagreement now...

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Tavishi Paitandy

Opinion | Modi's 'Make In India' Vs Rahul's 'Fake In India'

Opinion | Modi's 'Make In India' Vs Rahul's 'Fake In India'

The 'base year' narrative that is now being spuriously peddled by Rahul Gandhi and his cabal is just an attempt to undermine Modinomics

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Sanju Verma

Opinion: For Viksit Bharat, Rethink The Civil Services Examination

Opinion: For Viksit Bharat, Rethink The Civil Services Examination

The road to administrative reform begins not at the end of a civil servant’s career, but at the examination hall where that career begins

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Kamal Madishetty

Opinion | PM Modi Opens Up The Missile Business: How India's Private Sector Is A Force Multiplier

Opinion | PM Modi Opens Up The Missile Business: How India's Private Sector Is A Force Multiplier

India's defence exports reached ₹38,424 crore in FY2025-26, up more than 62 percent over the previous year

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | Two Wars And A Hamstrung SCO

Opinion | Two Wars And A Hamstrung SCO

The statement signed by the SCO in September had defended the country that bore the brunt of the war, but it did little to stop the conflict.

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | India-Russia 2.0: From Strategic Friendship To Partnership For A Multipolar World

Opinion | India-Russia 2.0: From Strategic Friendship To Partnership For A Multipolar World

As geopolitics turns more transactional, India and Russia are expanding ties beyond defence and energy into trade, technology, connectivity and...

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Nepal Stopping Sikh NGO Isn’t Personal; Its Laws Pre-empt Predatory Foreign Aid

Opinion | Nepal Stopping Sikh NGO Isn’t Personal; Its Laws Pre-empt Predatory Foreign Aid

Nepal is absolutely right in wanting to defend its sovereignty and demographic sanctity, which have been both callously and deliberately violated...

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Can The Generations Born In 1960s, 1970s Still Lead? A Puzzle For Gen Z

Opinion | Can The Generations Born In 1960s, 1970s Still Lead? A Puzzle For Gen Z

In an age of accelerating change, the greatest threat to leadership may not be lack of experience but it may be experience that refuses to evolve

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Lt Gen Devendra Pandey

Global Watch | Nepal's Himalayan Disaster Puts China's Mega-Dam Ambitions Under Fresh Scrutiny

Global Watch | Nepal's Himalayan Disaster Puts China's Mega-Dam Ambitions Under Fresh Scrutiny

China's latest undertaking is the enormous hydropower development on Yarlung Zangbo - the river that becomes the Brahmaputra after entering India and...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Bhagwat In New York: Celebrating Hindu Universalism, Exposing Mamdani’s Smallness

Opinion | Bhagwat In New York: Celebrating Hindu Universalism, Exposing Mamdani’s Smallness

With his universalist appeal of Sanatan Dharma, Bhagwat exposed Mamdani’s own exclusionary, Islamist-adjacent politics

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | India’s EV Revolution Starts In The Basement

Opinion | India’s EV Revolution Starts In The Basement

Public charging stations get most of the attention. But for millions of urban Indians, the more consequential question is whether they can charge a...

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Anuj Gupta

Opinion | Territorial Army 2.0: Building India's Military Reserve For Next War

Opinion | Territorial Army 2.0: Building India's Military Reserve For Next War

Doctrine, command integration and sustained investment will determine whether Territorial Army 2.0 becomes a genuine force multiplier or remains a...

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | 100 Days Of Suvendu Sarkar: Carrots And Sticks Fly At Breathless Speed

Opinion | 100 Days Of Suvendu Sarkar: Carrots And Sticks Fly At Breathless Speed

West Bengal under Suvendu Adhikari is taking up policy reforms and ground action almost daily. Something that the state has seldom seen in the last 49...

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Why Penguin’s ‘Random’ Decision On Sonia Gandhi’s Memoir Makes No Sense

Opinion | Why Penguin’s ‘Random’ Decision On Sonia Gandhi’s Memoir Makes No Sense

Her political journey has perhaps only one parallel worldwide; whatever she says in the book, it is bound to sell well anyway.

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion | The Opposition’s Cockroach Lesson: What Shashi Tharoor Misses From The Right

Opinion | The Opposition’s Cockroach Lesson: What Shashi Tharoor Misses From The Right

India’s political right has already built the ecosystem of participation that the Opposition is now discovering it needs

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | The Quiet Science Of Trying Again: What Children Learn When The First Attempt Fails

Opinion | The Quiet Science Of Trying Again: What Children Learn When The First Attempt Fails

Young children need adults who can judge when to intervene, what kind of help to provide and when to step back

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Vaishali Sharma

Opinion | Why Rahul Gandhi’s Gen-Z Outreach Looks Like Disguised Hinduphobia

Opinion | Why Rahul Gandhi’s Gen-Z Outreach Looks Like Disguised Hinduphobia

Gen Z should ask the Gandhi siblings a more fundamental question: Why is the standard of freedom, reform and respect different when the religion being...

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Bangladesh And The Mecca Pact: Strategic Autonomy Before Military Alignment

Opinion | Bangladesh And The Mecca Pact: Strategic Autonomy Before Military Alignment

Bangladesh should judge Mecca Pact against a clear national-interest standard: demonstrable security gains, limited obligations and no...

27.08.2026 10

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Ravindran Devagunam

Opinion | Nepal Flood, India's Worry: Curse Of Lower Riparian States

Opinion | Nepal Flood, India's Worry: Curse Of Lower Riparian States

The Nepal floods are therefore a reminder that, given that India is downstream of both Nepal and China, it cannot afford to be unprepared for what...

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | India's Sports Supremacy Over Pakistan Reflects Political, Economic Trajectory Of Two Nations

Opinion | India's Sports Supremacy Over Pakistan Reflects Political, Economic Trajectory Of Two Nations

A cursory look at the outcomes of matches in the last 10 years tell a story of a country in rise and its neighbour in sharp decline.

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Abhijit Majumder

Book Excerpt: How Gopal Patha Avenged Blood With Blood On Direct Action Day

Book Excerpt: How Gopal Patha Avenged Blood With Blood On Direct Action Day

The untold story of meat-shop owner Gopal ‘Patha’ Mukherjee, who saved thousands of lives and stopped Kolkata from becoming part of East Pakistan.

26.08.2026 10

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Debdutta Bhattacharjee

Opinion | The Rage-Bait Economy: When 15 Seconds Of Notoriety Becomes Permanent Record

Opinion | The Rage-Bait Economy: When 15 Seconds Of Notoriety Becomes Permanent Record

The culture of outrage that social media has lovingly fostered has birthed an entire subculture of rage-baiting

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Nandini Sengupta

Opinion | No Room At The Top

Opinion | No Room At The Top

When a hotel room costs more than a small car, hospitality inflation becomes an infrastructure warning

25.08.2026 10

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Sundeep Bhutoria

Opinion | The Islam Kerala Built & The Islam It Is Importing: When Conservatism Comes Home

Opinion | The Islam Kerala Built & The Islam It Is Importing: When Conservatism Comes Home

The World Bank paper does not prove that such a cultural shift has already taken place. But it does provide reason to ask whether social norms in...

25.08.2026 10

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Prajesh Panikkar

Right Word | Decoding ‘Hindu Nationalism’: How Selective Frameworks Misinterpret It

Right Word | Decoding ‘Hindu Nationalism’: How Selective Frameworks Misinterpret It

Viewing Hindu nationalism through selective analytical frameworks is a deliberate attempt to reduce an ancient and spiritual civilizational ethos to a...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Time To Spoon Off The Creamy Layer, Make Caste Reservation A Win-Win

Opinion | Time To Spoon Off The Creamy Layer, Make Caste Reservation A Win-Win

If the creamy layer is not spooned off, reservation risks becoming a closed circuit of privilege for those who have already availed reservation.

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Smashing Patriarchy – The Modi Way

Since 2014, the Narendra Modi-led government has prioritized “Nari Shakti” through a range of schemes focused on survival, education, health,...

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Sanju Verma

Book Review | From Caviar to Khichdi: A New Book Traces Indian PMs’ Food Preferences Alongside Their Political Journey

From Nehru’s cosmopolitan table to Modi’s simple vegetarian fare, ‘The Prime Minister’s Table’ explores the food preferences of India’s...

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Pragati Pandey

Opinion: Why The Modi Government Wants A Stronger Military Space Architecture

Operation Sindoor demonstrated how dependent modern joint operations have become on persistent surveillance, secure communications and rapid...

23.08.2026 10

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | ‘Islamic NATO’ Could Also Influence India-US Ties. Here's How

An emerging ‘Islamic NATO’ could make Delhi more beholden to Washington, potentially narrowing its bargaining power.

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | When Street Power Turns On Itself

Villagers in Rajasthan confronted a CJP team on Friday and stopped them from continuing with their school inspection

21.08.2026 20

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | Dimagi Naxalism: When Dissent Turns Into A Search For Violence And Disorder

A democracy must be able to distinguish between disagreement and the systematic glorification of destructive politics

21.08.2026 20

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Insulated By The Sun: Modi's Renewable Push Shielded India From Global Energy Crisis

This is the return on a decade-long wager on renewable power, delivering on the foundations laid by the Modi government

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | PM-CARES—Facts Vs Propaganda

PM-CARES Fund was designed as a specialised instrument for public emergencies and distress situations, deliberately distinct from the older, more...

20.08.2026 30

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | The Problem Isn’t Gen Z. It’s The Entitlement Some People Have Borrowed From Gen Z Activism

Gen Z’s willingness to speak up is a strength. But confidence without perspective can quickly become entitlement.

20.08.2026 10

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Mallika Bhagat

Opinion | Decoding The Modern-Day 'Dimagi Naxal'

PM Modi's "Dimagi Naxal" concept describes an ideological ecosystem that delegitimizes the Indian State, obstructs development, and romanticizes...

20.08.2026 20

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Sabarimala: The Problem With Imposed Reform

Lasting change in matters of faith is unlikely to come through coercion. It has to emerge from within the tradition itself.

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Prajesh Panikkar

Global Watch | Can Diplomacy Be A Substitute For Economic Mismanagement In Pakistan?

Pakistan’s diplomatic influence is growing, but whether it can translate that into economic strength without deeper political and institutional...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | India’s Physical AI Moment: Why Robots Could Define The Next Startup Revolution

From software-led innovation to intelligent machines in the real world, India is beginning to build the technological foundations of a new industrial...

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Prosenjit Nath