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Opinion | Building A Cultural Legacy: The Soorya Story

Opinion | Building A Cultural Legacy: The Soorya Story

Soorya Krishnamoorthy’s remarkable contribution to art, theatre, cinema, and culture has earned him recognition from governments, national...

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Vishnu Kumar R

Opinion | Make In India’s Defence: Modi Turned India From An Import Dependent Nation To Arms Supplier

Opinion | Make In India’s Defence: Modi Turned India From An Import Dependent Nation To Arms Supplier

The government has set a target of Rs 50,000 crore in defence exports by 2029

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | Disagreement Among Election Chiefs Only Proves The Process Is Working

Opinion | Disagreement Among Election Chiefs Only Proves The Process Is Working

So far, not a single court or auditor has red-flagged the ECI’s decisions.

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Target 2038: How Modi's Make In India Reboot Can Turn Trade Shock Into Strategic Win

Opinion | Target 2038: How Modi's Make In India Reboot Can Turn Trade Shock Into Strategic Win

A tariff works when American buyers can switch to another supplier, and it turns costly for Washington when they cannot

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Sohil Sinha

Global Watch | Street Power Vs State Power: PTI’s High-Stakes Gamble In Islamabad

Global Watch | Street Power Vs State Power: PTI’s High-Stakes Gamble In Islamabad

Imran Khan’s unyielding stance and the military’s threat perception have landed him in jail on charges that remain deeply contested and highly...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | PM Modi’s Journey A Golden Chapter In India’s History

Opinion | PM Modi’s Journey A Golden Chapter In India’s History

PM Modi’s five-decade political journey is not simply the story of an individual politician’s rise. It is a story of changing political priorities...

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Sheikh Khalid Jehangir

Opinion | Five Ways Premature Hounding Of Prof Doolla May Blow Up The Road To Viksit Bharat

Opinion | Five Ways Premature Hounding Of Prof Doolla May Blow Up The Road To Viksit Bharat

Even a hint of bias or political opportunism may blow up the road that India has set out on.

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Pakistan's Hajj Heist: Mecca Pact

Opinion | Pakistan's Hajj Heist: Mecca Pact

Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to US, without wasting any breath, has described the pact as “more symbolic than substantive.”

22.09.2026 7

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Adit Kothari

Right Word | Indus Waters Treaty: Six Decades Of Indian Restraint, Pakistan’s Strategic Miscalculation

Right Word | Indus Waters Treaty: Six Decades Of Indian Restraint, Pakistan’s Strategic Miscalculation

India's decision reflects the view that water cooperation cannot be separated indefinitely from the larger security environment

21.09.2026 30

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Arun Anand

Opinion | BRICS Gist: Alliances Weaken, Frenemies Bond As ‘Disloyal Diplomacy’ Goes Legit

Opinion | BRICS Gist: Alliances Weaken, Frenemies Bond As ‘Disloyal Diplomacy’ Goes Legit

Imagine a world in which a good marriage is judged by the number of public extramarital dalliances it withstands. That is exactly what geopolitics...

21.09.2026 20

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Abhijit Majumder

Payal Mehta, My ‘Sherni’: A Decade Of Journalism, Friendship & A Story That Will Live Forever

Payal Mehta, My ‘Sherni’: A Decade Of Journalism, Friendship & A Story That Will Live Forever

For those of us who worked alongside her, Payal Mehta was more than a journalist whose name appeared on a byline.

20.09.2026 30

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Opinion | Reel Deal: The Sleeper Hit Has Left The Building

Opinion | Reel Deal: The Sleeper Hit Has Left The Building

Hanuman Ansh and Main Vaapas Aaunga revive Bollywood’s sleeper-hit model, showing why word of mouth and sustained box office growth can matter more...

19.09.2026 20

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Tavishi Paitandy

Global Watch | Selected Over Elected: How Islamabad Overrides POK’s Mandate

Global Watch | Selected Over Elected: How Islamabad Overrides POK’s Mandate

The local population of the POK and the world at large have come to know about the dirty politics of Islamabad and how it controls the region

18.09.2026 30

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Arun Anand

Opinion | How PM Modi Made Foreign Policy A Domestic Product

Opinion | How PM Modi Made Foreign Policy A Domestic Product

PM Modi gave foreign policy a permanent home in Indian public life, with a vocabulary, a sense of nationalistic pride and rituals that ordinary...

18.09.2026 20

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | From Vadnagar To World Stage—Narendra Modi’s Extraordinary Journey Of 25 Years

Opinion | From Vadnagar To World Stage—Narendra Modi’s Extraordinary Journey Of 25 Years

Born on September 17, 1950, in Vadnagar in Gujarat, Narendra Modi's early life was steeped in challenges which shaped both his humility and resolute...

17.09.2026 30

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | Narendra Modi Turns 76: Looking Back At India’s Greatest Reformer

Opinion | Narendra Modi Turns 76: Looking Back At India’s Greatest Reformer

For 25 years, Modi’s politics has been inseparable from governance reform. His achievement is making reform a governing habit

17.09.2026 20

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | The Prime Minister Who Made Us Look Again At Bharat

Opinion | The Prime Minister Who Made Us Look Again At Bharat

What truly surprised me was PM Modi's knowledge of the Northeast — and, more particularly, Manipur.

17.09.2026 10

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M Asnikumar Singh

Opinion | UPI — Facts Vs Falsehoods

Opinion | UPI — Facts Vs Falsehoods

For the Congress to now cry wolf and undermine UPI’s integrity is sheer hypocrisy

16.09.2026 30

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Sanju Verma

Straight Talk | Modi At 76: The Man Making India ‘Bharat’

Straight Talk | Modi At 76: The Man Making India ‘Bharat’

PM Modi has made it possible, again, for India to call itself Bharat without apologising for the word

16.09.2026 30

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Opinion | When Due Process Fails: My Year Of Professional Exile At The WHO

Opinion | When Due Process Fails: My Year Of Professional Exile At The WHO

Multilateral organisations like WHO are innately political in nature and therefore all senior leaders are vulnerable to political victimisation

15.09.2026 30

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Saima Wazed

Opinion | Drug Abuse On The Frontlines

Opinion | Drug Abuse On The Frontlines

Extended periods of intense stress, mixed with long stretches of uncertainty and fear of imminent death, create environments where substance use can...

15.09.2026 20

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Dr G Shreekumar Menon

Opinion | They Came, They Saw, But Did They Conquer? Part Duo

Opinion | They Came, They Saw, But Did They Conquer? Part Duo

Apple’s strategy with the iPhone Duo feels clear: create a product that signals exclusivity. Not everyone will buy it, and that may be the point.

14.09.2026 20

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Anjan N. Ghosh

Opinion | How A School Bag Became A National Conversation

Opinion | How A School Bag Became A National Conversation

A letter to Jayant Chaudhary has sparked a wider debate on implementing a policy that could change the everyday lives of millions of children

14.09.2026 10

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Sundeep Bhutoria

Right Word | Ladakh’s Constitutional Future: Why Article 371 Matters

Right Word | Ladakh’s Constitutional Future: Why Article 371 Matters

The reason that makes Article 371 a better option for Ladakh can be found in a provision that receives little attention in the public debate

14.09.2026 30

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Arun Anand

Opinion | ‘Sarkar Unki, System Humara’: What Nationalists Can Learn From Marxist Thinker Gramsci

Opinion | ‘Sarkar Unki, System Humara’: What Nationalists Can Learn From Marxist Thinker Gramsci

If nationalists want to retain power for many decades irrespective of electoral outcomes, they have to win the culture war.

14.09.2026 40

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Abhijit Majumder

Write Mind | Scroll Down. You’re Being Managed

Put the phone down. Pick the purpose up. The Suvarn Kaal does not build itself. You do

13.09.2026 30

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Yuvraj Pokharna

Opinion | From Periphery To Fulcrum: India's BRICS Journey Under PM Modi

The most consequential strategic shift is that India is increasingly able to speak for the Global South without speaking against the West

13.09.2026 30

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Reel Deal: Bollywood Star? Meet The Pan-India Star

Bollywood isn’t disappearing. It has simply lost its monopoly on Indian stardom.

12.09.2026 30

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Tavishi Paitandy

Opinion | PM Modi Made India The Bridge Inside BRICS And The Bloc’s Only Door To The West

Ten members leave Delhi tomorrow still needing one government that can speak to all of them and to the West on the same day. That is what PM Modi...

12.09.2026 30

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Sohil Sinha

Straight Talk | BRICS Summit: With Xi And Putin In Delhi, India Takes Global Centre Stage

What's on display in Delhi this week is confidence built on numbers — growth, market size, defence capability — not just rhetoric

11.09.2026 30

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Opinion: They Came, They Saw, But Did They Conquer?

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11.09.2026 10

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Anjan N. Ghosh

Opinion | Modi-Xi Bilateral: Why The Leaders Are Meeting And Why It's Not A Reset Just As Yet

While it may be too early to call it a reset for relations, three reasons explain why India-China ties have reached a point of inflection

11.09.2026 30

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | Rebuttal To P Chidambaram – What Has India Achieved? BRICS, QUAD & SCO

PM Modi's track record shows a Bharat that has used multi-alignment to expand options, attract capital and technology and project influence without...

10.09.2026 40

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | Veg Or Non-Veg? Why What Bageshwar Baba Says Doesn’t Matter

The Hindu faith has come a long way from its organic beginnings lost in the mists of time; the only constant has been its historic ability to change...

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Global Watch | Paying Price Of Insecurity: How Pak's Security Crisis Is Undermining China's CPEC Dream

Chinese companies have forced Beijing to confront a difficult truth: billions of dollars cannot guarantee success when the operating environment...

10.09.2026 30

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Words As Weapons: How Linguistic Habits Blind Us To Terror And Traumatic Realities

Very often, we become victims of habits that were calculatedly imposed upon us by our enemies

10.09.2026 30

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Manoj Raghuvanshi

Opinion | AfD Sweep In Germany Sends Bold Message: Stop Invasion In Immigration’s Name

Whether it's Germany revolting against mass migration, or India pushing back Bangladeshi and Rohingya illegals, the voice against demographic and...

09.09.2026 50

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Progressive State, Conservative Sanctuary: The Grand Mufti And His Defenders

The lack of public discussion about such practices is worth considering because it illustrates the wider authority enjoyed by religious scholars...

08.09.2026 30

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Prajesh Panikkar

Opinion | Owaisi’s Historical Myopia: Why Reducing Uzbekistan To ‘Babur’s Land’ Fails Both Past And Present

By reducing a pivotal Central Asian republic to a mere historical footnote of Mughal genealogy, Owaisi’s rhetoric was both intellectually shallow...

07.09.2026 30

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Kamal Madishetty

Right Word | How Ladakh's New Lifelines Can End Its Isolation

Administration data cited in August 2026 states that the total road length has grown from 1,799 km in 2019 to over 4,200 km, while the number of...

07.09.2026 60

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Arun Anand

Opinion: What’s Common Between The Bayeux Tapestry And Vrindavan Vastra?

The British Museum has stayed mum on all the treasures from around the world that it retains, claiming a law prevents their repatriation

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Reshmi Dasgupta

Opinion: Why India Under PM Modi Averted A Major Caste Showdown Despite Opponents’ Attempts

Since British rule, caste has been cynically exploited as a fault line to divide the Hindu majority of Bharat and push one’s agenda

06.09.2026 20

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion: A ‘Dead Economy’ Growing At 7.8%

There is a simple test for whether an economy is dead. Take its four engines one at a time: household spending, investment, public building, exports

06.09.2026 30

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Siddhartha Chepuri

The Accountability Gap: India Builds The AI, But Who Answers For It?

Distributed AI systems create an accountability gap due to fragmented ownership across global teams, infrastructure, and data.

06.09.2026 30

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Aditya Vikram Kashyap

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...

05.09.2026 30

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Prosenjit Nath

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.

05.09.2026 40

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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

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

05.09.2026 30

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Adit Kothari

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...

04.09.2026 30

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Sanju Verma

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

04.09.2026 30

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Sohil Sinha

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...

04.09.2026 40

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Tuhin A Sinha