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Opinion | Why Mamdani Is Deliberately Talking Up Umar Khalid

Because the Nobel Peace Prize is the main qualification for ‘international’ candidates for top national political office

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion | After Rupture, The Resolve: How India’s Civilisational Foreign Policy Will Shape 2026

Guided by BJP’s strategic assertiveness and the RSS worldview, New Delhi enters a fragmented global order with confidence, not confusion.

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Has America Become An Anocracy? Trump’s Venezuela Gamble Says Yes

The capture of Nicolás Maduro exposes a deeper truth: the US is behaving less like a democracy and more like a hybrid regime unrestrained by...

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Dr G Shreekumar Menon

Opinion | Doordarshan Diaries: Sheila Chaman’s Chronicle Of Times When TV Brought Nation Together

The launch of Doordarshan in 1959 marked the dawn of a new era in India’s communication landscape

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Pragati Pandey

Opinion | Double Standards And Delayed Decline: The CPI(M)’s Kerala Exception

As traditional support bases reassess their loyalties and as new political alternatives emerge, the CPI(M)’s grip is weakening even in Kerala

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Prajesh Panikkar

Khel Vaani | So Close, Never Broken: Why Arjun Erigaisi Remains India’s Chess Beacon

Arjun, despite heartaches and heartbreaks over the past two years, remains the toast of Indian chess due to his extraordinary grit and determination

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Akhileshwar Sahay

Opinion | Work From Home Is No Shield Against Toxic Air — Unless Indoor Discipline Is Followed

Work from home does help, but only under conditions that are rarely explained, poorly understood, and almost never communicated to the public

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Ak Mehta

Opinion | When Acharya Kavindra Took The Battle To Shah Jahan

Acharya Kavindra Saraswati Vidyanidhi, 17th-century Benares’s foremost Pandit, fearlessly challenged Shah Jahan’s religious tyranny, forcing the...

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Sandeep Balakrishna

Opinion | How The Overton Window In Hindi Cinema Has Finally Shifted

Filmmakers have discovered that rhetorical goodwill films funded, produced and acted in by the ‘Aman ki Asha’ coterie will no longer rake in the...

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Chandni Sengupta

Opinion | How PM Modi Leveraged PRAGATI For Futuristic Vikas

PRAGATI reflects PM Modi’s development vision, generating over Rs 130 lakh crore in net gains through savings and multipliers, and steering India...

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Tuhin A Sinha

Global Watch | Pakistan's Silent Coup: How The Army Formalised Its Grip On Power In 2025

History will likely judge 2025 as the year Pakistan’s democratic experiment was decisively rolled back—not by force alone, but by law.

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Arun Anand

Opinion | The Dubious Race For One-Upmanship In The Eyes Of God

Crowded temples and premium entries reveal a deeper tension in modern worship: devotion remains free, but access increasingly carries a price.

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S Murlidharan

Opinion | India’s Security Imperative In 2026: Challenges, Choices, And The Road Ahead

2026 will likely present many challenges to India’s well-being

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Lt Gen Kamal Davar

Opinion | Chanakya Was No Fantasy: Why Devdutt Pattanaik's Pseudo-History Falls Apart

When ideological bias meets ancient history, facts don’t disappear — they strike back.

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Angel Chakma’s Death Demands More Than Condolences

The murder of Angel Chakma in Dehradun is not just a tragic crime, but a mirror reflecting deeper failures of prejudice, policing and public...

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Sidharth Mishra

Opinion | As India Rewrites MGNREGA, The Evidence Shows Why It Had To

The shift to VB-G RAM G wasn’t arbitrary. The data shows MGNREGA’s wage and productivity claims simply didn’t hold up.

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Subhomoy Bhattacharjee

Opinion | BRICS: Panchamukha In Multipolarity

Amid geopolitical flux & declining Western dominance, BRICS represents a pragmatic pathway for India to navigate multipolarity through speed,...

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Gautam R Desiraju

Opinion | The Paradigm Shift Of 2025: India’s Economic Renaissance Under PM Narendra Modi

The prime minister combines the best of both---grand vision and the ability to bring his vision to fruition, with unwavering finesse

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | Washington’s Islamist Gamble In Bangladesh

What Washington frames as inclusive diplomacy may ultimately legitimise the most regressive forces in Bangladesh’s political ecosystem.

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Seven Political Events In India That Will Have Repercussions Beyond 2025

The year 2025 has reinforced steady ascent of the Indian Right & new nationalism in politics. With the exception of Omar Abdullah, no opposition...

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Congress At 140: Listlessly Wandering Traveller

From imperial petitioners to post-Independence rulers to a party searching for purpose, the Indian National Congress’s history does not make a...

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Surajit Dasgupta

Opinion | Invisible, Misunderstood And Masked: Understanding ADHD In Adulthood

Recognising and supporting individuals with ADHD is not merely a clinical concern but a reflection of how we conceptualise care for human variability

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Yashee Jha

Opinion | Why This Amitava Kumar Book Offers A Kaleidoscopic Retelling Of Indian Railways

The Social Life of Indian Trains: A Journey is filled with moments that echo our own experiences of train travel, but it goes beyond fond anecdotes

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Pragati Pandey

Urban Quest | The Hard Truth: Bengaluru Cannot Grow On A Crumbling Urban Foundation

The city powering India’s tech economy is buckling under corruption, congestion, crumbling infrastructure and chronic mismanagement. Its future...

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Akhileshwar Sahay

Opinion | Is Manufactured Outrage Targeting India’s Gen Z?

The youth of the country must guard against becoming instruments of manufactured outrage and instead emerge as stakeholders in long-term national...

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Maninder Gill

Opinion | Before The Calendar Turns: In Praise Of Small Moments

The end of the year invites reflection, but it is the small, repeated moments that seem to answer back.

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Sudipta Dubey