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Opinion | The Family As India's First Line Of Cognitive Resilience

Opinion | The Family As India's First Line Of Cognitive Resilience

The battle for 1.4 billion minds will not be fought only through political narratives, ideological campaigns or hostile information operations.

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Lt Gen Devendra Pandey

Opinion: The Machine Has An Owner, The Risk Has No Map

Opinion: The Machine Has An Owner, The Risk Has No Map

Working out what AI failures cost, and how many institutions share the system that failed, is a harder problem, and one India is well-placed to help...

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Aditya Vikram Kashyap

Right Word | The PoJK Blind Spot: How Geopolitical Interests Silence The Global Media

Right Word | The PoJK Blind Spot: How Geopolitical Interests Silence The Global Media

So much is happening in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), yet the international media remains largely silent

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Arun Anand

America Is Souring on Data Centres. India Should Build Them Better.

America Is Souring on Data Centres. India Should Build Them Better.

America's backlash could send the next wave of AI investment abroad. A decade of groundwork under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has India ready to win...

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Siddhartha Chepuri

Opinion | How Trump Lost Friends, Iran War Safety Net, Price Control, And Midterms

Opinion | How Trump Lost Friends, Iran War Safety Net, Price Control, And Midterms

Bullying or extortion cannot be a permanent currency in diplomacy. As an immediate consequence, it has led to Trump’s sobering defeat in the midterms

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Beyond The Noise: Understanding The Meaning Of Hindu Festivals

Opinion | Beyond The Noise: Understanding The Meaning Of Hindu Festivals

Hindu festivals, with their exuberance, imperfections and diversity, deserve understanding and engagement, and, where necessary, constructive...

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Prajesh Panikkar

Global Watch | A Growing Nightmare For Pakistan: The Collapse Of Its Afghan Strategy

Global Watch | A Growing Nightmare For Pakistan: The Collapse Of Its Afghan Strategy

After celebrating the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, Pakistan has become disgruntled with the group and consistently accuses it of acting...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Drug Lord Deportations Reveal Smart India-Turkey Backroom Diplomacy

Opinion | Drug Lord Deportations Reveal Smart India-Turkey Backroom Diplomacy

A very interesting understanding is unfolding between India and Turkey. There is a new frontier of cooperation: war on drugs and transnational crime.

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Don't Bet On Trump's Mid-Term Humbling To Reset India-US Ties

Opinion | Don't Bet On Trump's Mid-Term Humbling To Reset India-US Ties

Trump will be under pressure to be tougher and less accommodating. After all, what's he got to lose? It’s not as if he's going to be paying a...

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Rahul Shivshankar

Delhi's Air Needs Precise Questions Before Clever Answers

Delhi's Air Needs Precise Questions Before Clever Answers

How a government frames a problem shapes the solutions it receives. The Environment Ministry's 17 October interaction with start-ups shows why.

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Anuj Gupta

Aga Ruhullah's Exit: Is National Conference Losing Its Political Credibility In Jammu And Kashmir?

Aga Ruhullah's Exit: Is National Conference Losing Its Political Credibility In Jammu And Kashmir?

After nearly 24 years of association with the party, the Srinagar MP has decided to sever ties with the organisation and announced his intention to...

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Opinion | Mukesh...For Whom The Bells Chime

Opinion | Mukesh...For Whom The Bells Chime

The richest moment of a billionaire’s life, it turns out, cost nothing at all. He simply listened.

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360 Degree View | The Sangh And The Sarkaar: Who Sets The Line, Who Draws It?

360 Degree View | The Sangh And The Sarkaar: Who Sets The Line, Who Draws It?

As RSS's senior brass filters from Indore’s executive meets straight into the capital, the closed-door messaging to its political sibling, the BJP,...

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Madhuparna Das

Playing With Fire: Why Bangladesh Cannot Afford Garment Industry Unrest

Playing With Fire: Why Bangladesh Cannot Afford Garment Industry Unrest

The economy of Bangladesh is heavily dependent on the success of this one sector. If it goes down, the economy goes down

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Anindya Banerjee

Opinion | Camera Is The Lifeline Of Justice

Opinion | Camera Is The Lifeline Of Justice

Initially, judges of the Supreme Court and high courts were hesitant to let the camera inside their courtrooms

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Manoj Raghuvanshi

NCP's Silent Power Struggle: Patel's Warning And The Pawar Family's Challenge | The Maha Picture

NCP's Silent Power Struggle: Patel's Warning And The Pawar Family's Challenge | The Maha Picture

Many may not be willing to question the leadership publicly, but in private conversations, concerns about the party’s functioning are increasingly...

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Mayuresh Ganapatye

Robots That Build Robots: The Factory Is Learning To Copy Itself

Robots That Build Robots: The Factory Is Learning To Copy Itself

Tesla has started making Optimus on a line built for a million robots a year, and Musk says the robots will soon build the robots.

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K Yatish Rajawat

From Paris To Bharat Mandapam: PM Modi's Solar Alliance Grows

From Paris To Bharat Mandapam: PM Modi's Solar Alliance Grows

In the first six months of this fiscal year alone India has added 24.56 GW of renewable capacity.

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Sohil Sinha

Disappearing Hindus Of Pakistan: The World’s Blind Spot

Disappearing Hindus Of Pakistan: The World’s Blind Spot

Adit Kothari's article examines the declining Hindu population in Pakistan, alleged forced conversions, abductions and institutional discrimination...

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Adit Kothari

Opinion | Pakistan: The Dopamine Nation

Opinion | Pakistan: The Dopamine Nation

Drugged-up Pakistan, with more than six million drug users and rising, is assiduously creating a narcotics-trade whirlpool, pulling countless...

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Dr G Shreekumar Menon

Opinion | The Sweetness Between Laughter And Tears

Opinion | The Sweetness Between Laughter And Tears

Many of us watched this at Mukesh Ambani’s Jio event, when his children spoke from the heart

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Surakshit Goswami

Opinion | Why India Needs A New Procurement Policy For Deep-Tech Innovation

Opinion | Why India Needs A New Procurement Policy For Deep-Tech Innovation

India's technological ambitions require more than research funding and startup incentives

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Arunachal Dam: Convincing A Tribe, Cracking Down On Foreign-Funded Unrest

Opinion | Arunachal Dam: Convincing A Tribe, Cracking Down On Foreign-Funded Unrest

There is much soft work to be done in Arunachal before the government moves in brick and concrete for the dam

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Abhijit Majumder

Global Watch | Pakistan’s New Provinces Debate Is About Power, Not Governance

Global Watch | Pakistan’s New Provinces Debate Is About Power, Not Governance

The most troubling aspect of this proposal is the concentration of political power it could facilitate under Asim Munir

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Arun Anand

Opinion | 'Na Satta Mili Na Ram': How 1990 Ayodhya Crisis Cost Mulayam Singh Both Power & Peace

Opinion | 'Na Satta Mili Na Ram': How 1990 Ayodhya Crisis Cost Mulayam Singh Both Power & Peace

Most people remember that the complete Babri demolition took place on December 6, 1992. But the partial demolition of October 30, 1990, is largely...

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Manoj Raghuvanshi

Opinion: Why Other States Need To Emulate Bihar Museum Story

Opinion: Why Other States Need To Emulate Bihar Museum Story

Bihar Museum was ranked No 9 in its list of the 100 best museums in the world by a travel journal. India's other cities need to catch up

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion | The Great Witch-Hunt Against ECI: How Facts Were Replaced By Half-Truths

Opinion | The Great Witch-Hunt Against ECI: How Facts Were Replaced By Half-Truths

Freedom of speech is a must but free speech cannot come at the expense of getting a free run to slander

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Sanju Verma

Opinion: Nothing For Liberals To Cheer In Israel’s Netanyahu-Eisenkot Poll Deadlock

Opinion: Nothing For Liberals To Cheer In Israel’s Netanyahu-Eisenkot Poll Deadlock

All they can hope for, if Eisenkot prevails, is a crackdown on violent settlers and keeping hardline Smotrich and Ben-Gvir out of the government

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Abhijit Majumder

Right Word | Sardar Patel's Strategic Foresight: Lessons For India's China And Neighbourhood Policy

Right Word | Sardar Patel's Strategic Foresight: Lessons For India's China And Neighbourhood Policy

In a 1950 letter to Nehru, Sardar Patel warned that China's takeover of Tibet had fundamentally altered India's security, exposing its northern...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Lawyers' Strikes Cry For A Permanent Solution

Opinion | Lawyers' Strikes Cry For A Permanent Solution

Lawyers’ strikes are one of the reasons for the staggering pendency of cases in India

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Manoj Raghuvanshi

Opinion | The Architecture Of Trust: How Japan’s Infrastructure Enables High Social Cohesion

Opinion | The Architecture Of Trust: How Japan’s Infrastructure Enables High Social Cohesion

Social cohesion is about creating the conditions in which trust is not an extraordinary act of faith, but an ordinary part of everyday life and Japan...

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Yashee Jha

Opinion | Atmanirbhar Bharat In Defence: Is India Making The Most Of Its Engineering Talent?

India has already recognised the value of linking engineering research with defence requirements

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | India’s Gen Z Needs A Door

The young people at the barricades can see the economy is growing. They are asking why the door in front of them is shut

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Rakesh Kaul

Opinion | Red Road’s Lessons For Kolkata’s Street Renaming Exercise

Some road names in Kolkata simply refuse to fade into oblivion.

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion | Congenital Heart Disease: An Urgent Child Health Priority In India

CHD is treatable, yet thousands of children still die or live with preventable disability because diagnosis and treatment are delayed or inaccessible.

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Dr K Ganapathy Subramaniam

Opinion | Omar Abdullah’s Cabinet Reshuffle Exposes Cracks Within National Conference

From simmering tensions with Congress to growing resentment among party veterans, the latest reshuffle has exposed fresh fault lines within Jammu and...

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Opinion | Major General Syed Mahdi Hasnain: The Muslim Officer Who Chose India When Partition Tore The Subcontinent Apart

On Infantry Day, the story of a young Muslim officer who remained with his battalion, helped protect refugees fleeing communal violence and went on to...

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Opinion | October 1947: The Invasion, The Sacrifice And The Stories Jammu & Kashmir Must Never Forget

As India observes Infantry Day, personal memories of survival during the 1947 Kashmir invasion underline why the sacrifices of soldiers and civilians...

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Opinion: The Gap Between What The Military Needs And What Defence Start-ups Build

The war in Ukraine shows what can happen when users and makers stay in touch every day

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | The AI Cybersecurity Paradox: Why India Must Prepare For Breaches Before They Happen

In the age of AI, cybersecurity is the national responsibility of ensuring that when defences fail, the systems supporting India's economy and public...

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | An Insight Into The Mind Of India’s Only Muslim Home Minister

India’s then home minister spoke of the people of India, and people of Kashmir, as if they were two independent entities

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Manoj Raghuvanshi

Opinion | What Lula’s Victory In Brazil Means For Trump, BRICS, India, And The World

India may have wanted some balance in BRICS instead of a staunch anti-America outlook, but PM Modi’s foreign policy is pragmatic and nimble enough...

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Abhijit Majumder

Right Word | From Ladakh To South China Sea: China's Cartographic Hypocrisy

Maps do not confer title, and names do not move borders. Territorial disputes require evidence, negotiation and international law, not selective...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | PV Narsimha Rao, Sonia Gandhi & PM Modi: A Political Irony

The memory of Narasimha Rao will always glow bright in the hearts of Ram Bhakts, whose cause he served with a pure spirit

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Manoj Raghuvanshi

My Tattoos, My Stories - And Why I Still Love Them

Reflecting on nearly two decades of body art, an author explores the memories, pain, and addiction behind getting tattoos

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Anjan Ghosh

Opinion | Traffic Fines Are Not The Problem; The Process Is

The system is hard to use, but the people who work through it deserve a process that treats them as citizens, not defaulters

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Dhananjay Singh

Opinion | Why Does India Applaud A Food Inspector For Doing His Job?

Tukaram Mundhe's crackdown on food safety violations shows how institutional failure can turn routine enforcement into extraordinary news.

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K Yatish Rajawat

Opinion | Real Deal: Ramayana - Can Bollywood Do Justice To India’s Greatest Epic?

From Adipurush to Chhaava and Kalki 2898 AD, Bollywood has learnt some hard lessons about mythological and historical films. Can Ramayana get the...

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Tavishi Paitandy

Opinion | India's GDP Upgrades–The Modi Momentum

In a world of slower and more uneven global growth, India’s trajectory under Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands out

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | The Politics Of Protest And The Challenge Of Foreign Influence

Transnational ideological networks, international advocacy groups and domestic political alliances are blurring boundaries between legitimate dissent...

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Prosenjit Nath