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Opinion | Mamata Banerjee Scores Self-Goal By Stirring Up Voters’ List Issue

Opinion | Mamata Banerjee Scores Self-Goal By Stirring Up Voters’ List Issue

If there is indeed brutal scrutiny of the West Bengal voters’ list, it may weed out a large chunk of her devoted voters

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Parthenium Of The Colonised Mind: USAID, India And America’s Dark Secrets

Opinion | Parthenium Of The Colonised Mind: USAID, India And America’s Dark Secrets

Over the past 77 years, seemingly benign ‘aid’ has been used to undermine unity, deepen fault lines, and mould economic activity in India with a...

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Nirmal Kaur

Global Watch | Bangladesh On The Brink As Yunus Regime Fails To Deliver On Political Front

Global Watch | Bangladesh On The Brink As Yunus Regime Fails To Deliver On Political Front

Bangladesh, caught between aspirations for democratic restoration and the exigencies of governance, watches on with its patience wearing thin...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Did Zelenskyy Engineer A Deliberate Disaster?

Opinion | Did Zelenskyy Engineer A Deliberate Disaster?

With Europe even half-heartedly agreeing to continue Ukraine’s weapons supplies, only Trump’s Lakshman Rekha can actually end the war.

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion | Gene Hackman Never Disappointed; He Was The Standard

Opinion | Gene Hackman Never Disappointed; He Was The Standard

Even in films that failed to hit their mark, Hackman remained a steady force, unwavering in his commitment to his craft

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Gautam Chintamani

Dharma Files | Colonialism and Karma: Analysing Grooming Gang Scandal in Britain

Dharma Files | Colonialism and Karma: Analysing Grooming Gang Scandal in Britain

Although Muslims constitute only 6.7 per cent of the total population of Britain, they are able to influence the electoral outcome out of all...

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Arvind Sharma

Akhil Vaani | India’s Airpocalypse: A Future We Can’t Afford

India's air pollution crisis is worsening. Delhi now tops the list of the world's most polluted cities, and India accounts for a staggering 94 of...

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Akhileshwar Sahay

Opinion | Streamlining Governance: Why We Need A DOGE In India

Opinion | Streamlining Governance: Why We Need A DOGE In India

Just because something is difficult doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be done. The Indian government has significant bureaucratic flab that needs to...

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Ravi Shanker Kapoor

Opinion | Trump, Musk, And Patel: A Geopolitical Reckoning Liberals Can’t Ignore

Opinion | Trump, Musk, And Patel: A Geopolitical Reckoning Liberals Can’t Ignore

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Kash Patel—this trio isn’t just a domestic power bloc, they’re a geopolitical tornado threatening to rip through the...

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Sayantan Ghosh

Opinion | Stalin, Hindi And The Battle For Bharat’s Civilisational Identity

Opinion | Stalin, Hindi And The Battle For Bharat’s Civilisational Identity

The DMK’s war against Hindi is just an excuse. The real battle has been about the Sanatana Dharma and, of course, the civilisational identity of...

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Utpal Kumar

Opinion | DMK’s War Against Hindi: Divorcing Logic, Marrying Prejudice

Opinion | DMK’s War Against Hindi: Divorcing Logic, Marrying Prejudice

Given DMK and the Periyar ideology’s long history of attacking Sanatana Dharma and tireless efforts to keep the artificial North-South divide alive...

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Modi Started India’s Own DOGE A Decade Ago, But Chainsaw Needed For Bureaucracy Now

Opinion | Modi Started India’s Own DOGE A Decade Ago, But Chainsaw Needed For Bureaucracy Now

Modi government’s quiet and effective drive predated Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s ongoing spectacle to save cost and increase efficiency by 10...

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | China’s Tech-Industrial Ecosystems: A Web Of Convergence And Ambition

Opinion | China’s Tech-Industrial Ecosystems: A Web Of Convergence And Ambition

China’s model suggests that true industrial growth might require not just self-reliance but self-interconnection, a lesson India might quietly...

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Indian Ink | Mahakumbh 2025: Triumph Of Hindu And Human Unity

Indian Ink | Mahakumbh 2025: Triumph Of Hindu And Human Unity

The 2025 Mahakumbh offers a powerful counter-narrative to divisive ideologies—a living demonstration that equality and fraternity can manifest on...

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Makarand R Paranjape

Opinion | The Economic Power Of Caregivers In India

Both paid and unpaid care work are integral to human, social, and economic well-being, and are vital for sustainable development

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Shilpi Verma

Opinion | How Modi Government Is Cultivating The Next Generation Of Scientists

Opinion | How Modi Government Is Cultivating The Next Generation Of Scientists

With initiatives like the Atal Innovation Mission, the INSPIRE programme, and scholarships for science students, the government is betting big on...

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | Delimitation Debate: Is The DMK Being Selectively Parochial?

The Narendra Modi-led NDA is aware of the sensitivities of southern states that fear that delimitation based on the latest population data (2026...

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | Maximum Role, Minimum Credit: How Freedom Struggle Saga Was Distorted To Discredit Revolutionaries

Opinion | Maximum Role, Minimum Credit: How Freedom Struggle Saga Was Distorted To Discredit Revolutionaries

Mahatma Gandhi and Gandhians had a ‘minimal’ role in Bharat’s independence compared to revolutionaries, and yet they remained ignored and...

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Utpal Kumar

Akhil Vaani | ‘Maha’ Lessons For Bharat From The Maha Kumbh

Akhil Vaani | ‘Maha’ Lessons For Bharat From The Maha Kumbh

The lessons are abundant, but the most crucial ones pertain to the management of large-scale events, high-level crowd control, transport...

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Akhileshwar Sahay

Opinion | India At A Crossroads: Can The IT Giant Pivot To An AI-Driven Future?

AI-driven future offers India an opportunity to leapfrog its rivals and shape the next wave of technological evolution. But this requires decisive...

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | ‘Chhaava’: A Spectacular Journey Mounted On A Grand Canvas

Opinion | ‘Chhaava’: A Spectacular Journey Mounted On A Grand Canvas

‘Chhaava’ stays true to its genre, mounts its vision on a larger-than-life canvas, selects valour as its primary colour from the creative palette,...

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Abhinav Agarwal

Opinion | Trump’s Gold Card Programme: A $5 Million Ticket To Ride Is Not Worth It

Opinion | Trump’s Gold Card Programme: A $5 Million Ticket To Ride Is Not Worth It

The price of the American dream just multiplied five-fold. Finding takers will be a huge challenge

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Gautam Chikermane