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Opinion | From Bhuj Earthquake To Tata Nano: My Biggest Leadership Lessons From PM Modi

Opinion | From Bhuj Earthquake To Tata Nano: My Biggest Leadership Lessons From PM Modi

I realised that as far as a goal is concerned, PM Modi was firm about pursuing it relentlessly and also encouraged his team and made sure they...

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Ravi Kant

Opinion | Muslims Aligning With Power? Odd Case Of BJP’s Rejinagar, Nagaon Bypoll Wins

Opinion | Muslims Aligning With Power? Odd Case Of BJP’s Rejinagar, Nagaon Bypoll Wins

The pure arithmetic of voter demographics in these two constituencies shows that Muslims have chosen the BJP in numbers noticeably higher than before.

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion: What Is AWACS And Why Does India Need More Flying Radars?

Opinion: What Is AWACS And Why Does India Need More Flying Radars?

An AWACS is a radar on an aircraft. Put it high up and it sees what ground radars cannot, over the horizon and past the mountains

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Vallari Parashar

Right Word I How Congress’ RSS Conspiracy Theory On Census Falls Apart

Right Word I How Congress’ RSS Conspiracy Theory On Census Falls Apart

Jairam Ramesh says the demographic committee is "high level" only in its members' RSS affiliation.

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Pakistan’s 3D Terror Tactics – Drugs, Drones And Dead-Drops

Opinion | Pakistan’s 3D Terror Tactics – Drugs, Drones And Dead-Drops

Pakistan remains indispensable transit corridor, channelling Afghan-origin heroin, hashish, and synthetics eastward into India while moving...

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Dr G Shreekumar Menon

Opinion | From Bangladesh To Bharat: The Perils Of Romanticising Political Upheaval

Opinion | From Bangladesh To Bharat: The Perils Of Romanticising Political Upheaval

Democracy is strengthened by accountable institutions, peaceful protest and the ballot box, not by treating Bangladesh's turbulent transition as a...

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | Leveraging BIMSTEC To End Narco-Trafficking

Opinion | Leveraging BIMSTEC To End Narco-Trafficking

Under Amit Shah's leadership, India's fight against narcotics is moving beyond domestic enforcement towards coordinated regional action against...

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Beyond Growth: A New Book That Explores India's Industrial Reset

Opinion | Beyond Growth: A New Book That Explores India's Industrial Reset

While the government can set the structural and regulatory framework, the true onus of transformation rests on the business community, educators, and...

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Amitabh Sinha

Opinion | Beyond Growth: A Bureaucrat Couple Explores India’s Industrial Reset

Opinion | Beyond Growth: A Bureaucrat Couple Explores India’s Industrial Reset

While the government can set the structural and regulatory framework, the true onus of transformation rests on the business community, educators, and...

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Amitabh Sinha

West Asia at a Strategic Crossroads: Will the Borders of the Twentieth Century Survive?

West Asia at a Strategic Crossroads: Will the Borders of the Twentieth Century Survive?

Iran's strategic position rests on more than its religious identity, writes Lt Gen DP Pandey.

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Lt Gen Dp Pandey

Opinion | Asymmetric Warfare Is Quietly Changing The Calculus In West Asia

Opinion | Asymmetric Warfare Is Quietly Changing The Calculus In West Asia

States that field advanced combat aircraft and precision weapons still face adversaries who possess far less hardware yet manage to impose real costs.

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Lt Gen Dushyant Singh

Opinion | Towards A Culture Of Care In Education: NCERT Director Writes On Mental Health And Well-being

Opinion | Towards A Culture Of Care In Education: NCERT Director Writes On Mental Health And Well-being

Ultimately, the purpose of education is not only to prepare children for examinations, higher education or employment. It is to prepare them for life

14.10.2026 10

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Dinesh Saklani

Opinion | Cursed TechGen: Data-Drugged, Distant And Dead Inside

Opinion | Cursed TechGen: Data-Drugged, Distant And Dead Inside

Smartphones have reached an estimated 97 per cent of Indian youth, with similar trends evident across the world.

14.10.2026 10

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Lt Gen Devendra Pandey

Opinion | The Holy Grail Of AI Is Trust And India Has The Edge

Opinion | The Holy Grail Of AI Is Trust And India Has The Edge

The next breakthrough in AI will come not from the biggest model but from the system doctors can trust with a patient’s life. India has talent and...

14.10.2026 10

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Rakesh Kaul

Global Watch | Imran Khan-Phobia: How Pakistan’s Hybrid Regime Pulled The Plug On KP

Global Watch | Imran Khan-Phobia: How Pakistan’s Hybrid Regime Pulled The Plug On KP

It was the fourth time that an elected government was dissolved on a flimsy pretext in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and an emergency imposed.

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Denied A ‘Hindu Vs Christian’ Button, Media Mute Manipur’s Kuki-Naga Conflict

Opinion | Denied A ‘Hindu Vs Christian’ Button, Media Mute Manipur’s Kuki-Naga Conflict

In reports that have become few and far between, the religious angle has been quietly tuned out. It is now apparently a purely 'ethnic conflict'...

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | From Satellite Images To Strategic Decisions: How Modi’s GatiShakti Is Bringing Technology Into Governance

Opinion | From Satellite Images To Strategic Decisions: How Modi’s GatiShakti Is Bringing Technology Into Governance

Launched in 2021 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan uses a single digital map to coordinate infrastructure...

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | Canada-India Security Cooperation Will Fail Unless Ottawa Closes Khalistan Asylum Loophole

Opinion | Canada-India Security Cooperation Will Fail Unless Ottawa Closes Khalistan Asylum Loophole

For India, asylum and extradition cannot remain secondary to trade

13.10.2026 20

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Ruchi Wali

Opinion | 3 Days, 3 Meets: Lessons For Vijay From PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi & Chandrababu Naidu

Opinion | 3 Days, 3 Meets: Lessons For Vijay From PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi & Chandrababu Naidu

What would these interactions and perspectives help Vijay Joseph achieve in national politics?

13.10.2026 20

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R Rajagopalan

The Sovereign Siege: Asymmetric Warfare, Narrative Cartels, And The Battle For India’s Growth Engine

The Sovereign Siege: Asymmetric Warfare, Narrative Cartels, And The Battle For India’s Growth Engine

India faces a geopolitical paradox as its rapid economic growth contends with internal protests, legislative gridlock, and external pressures.

12.10.2026 20

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Colonel Rohit Dev

Opinion | SIR: Facts Vs Falsehoods

Opinion | SIR: Facts Vs Falsehoods

Street-style thuggery can never be and will never be an alternative to the popular mandate of the electorate

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Sanju Verma

Opinion | The Opposition’s Anarchy Trap: Why India Must Move On

Opinion | The Opposition’s Anarchy Trap: Why India Must Move On

When agitation becomes an end in itself, it ceases to serve the public and begins imposing costs upon it.

12.10.2026 30

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Riding Dirt-Cheap Data, India’s Internet Moment Arrived Long Before Elon Musk

Opinion | Riding Dirt-Cheap Data, India’s Internet Moment Arrived Long Before Elon Musk

India's internet moment arrived nearly a decade ago. The white man with a big saviour complex is trying to catch up, but a bit too late.

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Abhijit Majumder

Right Word | Firm On Sovereignty, Open In Spirit: Tawang Welcomes The World

Right Word | Firm On Sovereignty, Open In Spirit: Tawang Welcomes The World

The invitation to China brings together two ideas: India remains firm about its sovereignty, while leaving room for peaceful contact and cultural...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | Why India Is Right To Have Strong Security Concerns Over Elon Musk’s Starlink

Opinion | Why India Is Right To Have Strong Security Concerns Over Elon Musk’s Starlink

The operator is a US company bound by American spectrum rules, contracts and licences. Only Washington has reasonable control over it.

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion: Pakistan Feels The Indus Squeeze, India Left $100 Billion In The River

Opinion: Pakistan Feels The Indus Squeeze, India Left $100 Billion In The River

Eighteen months after abeyance, river data show a lever that unsettles Pakistan without changing its conduct, and an India that left six decades of...

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Rakesh Kaul

Opinion | SIR: Ensuring Integrity Of Electoral Process

Opinion | SIR: Ensuring Integrity Of Electoral Process

The ultimate objective must remain clear: every eligible citizen should have the opportunity to exercise the right to vote, while electoral rolls...

11.10.2026 30

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Sheikh Khalid Jehangir

Opinion | Elon’s Falling Mask: Trillionaire’s Rant Belies India’s Incredible Internet Reality

Opinion | Elon’s Falling Mask: Trillionaire’s Rant Belies India’s Incredible Internet Reality

At the cost and speed at which data is available in India, it would not require an Elon Musk to cover the miles untouched by the virtual world.

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | When Congress Wins, It's Democracy. When It Loses, It's Vote Chori

Opinion | When Congress Wins, It's Democracy. When It Loses, It's Vote Chori

The Congress campaign is about building an alibi before the next defeat, and planting doubt in people's minds about the ballot itself

10.10.2026 20

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Mitta Vamsi Krishna

Global Watch | PTI's Long March, Civil-Military Imbalance And Pakistan's Protest Culture

Global Watch | PTI's Long March, Civil-Military Imbalance And Pakistan's Protest Culture

A segment of society has resisted the military's political interference and its protégés from the very beginning, which explains why protests have...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | The Oligarch In The Mirror: Musk’s Multi-Million-Dollar American Kingdom Exposed

Opinion | The Oligarch In The Mirror: Musk’s Multi-Million-Dollar American Kingdom Exposed

Elon Musk is not angry at the existence of corporate political influence; he is merely furious that, in India, it isn't his influence that moves the...

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Colonel Rohit Dev

Opinion | Sovereign Skies, Secure India: Why Starlink Must Be Denied Entry

Opinion | Sovereign Skies, Secure India: Why Starlink Must Be Denied Entry

Starlink promises connectivity in India's remotest regions, but its foreign-controlled infrastructure could pose serious challenges to national...

10.10.2026 10

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Colonel Rohit Dev

Opinion | Real Deal: Kareena Kapoor To Kiara Advani, Bollywood Heroine Gets To Have A Life

Opinion | Real Deal: Kareena Kapoor To Kiara Advani, Bollywood Heroine Gets To Have A Life

Once, marriage or motherhood could quietly end a Bollywood heroine’s career. Today, women like Kiara Advani are making those old rules look...

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Tavishi Paitandy

Opinion | Guess Who Gains The Most From The Cockroach-Congress-AAP Street Show

Opinion | Guess Who Gains The Most From The Cockroach-Congress-AAP Street Show

A slew of factors point to the BJP ultimately benefiting once the dust settles.

10.10.2026 20

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Delhi & Paris: When The Street Threatens To Overrule The State

Opinion | Delhi & Paris: When The Street Threatens To Overrule The State

There is nothing democratic about using the street to replace the institutions that democracy has created to settle political disputes

09.10.2026 30

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Rahul Shivshankar

Opinion | The Tale Of Two Protests: Why Is Disorder Democracy In India, But Public Order In France?

Opinion | The Tale Of Two Protests: Why Is Disorder Democracy In India, But Public Order In France?

As protesters prepare to blockade the streets of Delhi over ECI and SIR of electoral rolls, the international and domestic narrative abruptly shifts.

09.10.2026 30

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Kamal Madishetty

Opinion | PM Modi: The Great Reformer

Opinion | PM Modi: The Great Reformer

PM Modi broke with the assumption that a government's job is merely to manage what it inherits. Every government after his will be judged by the...

08.10.2026 20

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Sohil Sinha

Opinion | My Family Was Complete The Moment My Second Daughter Was Born

Every child deserves to enter this world knowing that she was wanted, loved and celebrated

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Opinion | A Decade Of Deterrence: How India's Military Response Evolved Under PM Modi

Rawalpindi now knows the price of a major attack is no longer a raid on launch pads but its own airbases, delivered fast and on India's terms

07.10.2026 30

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion | From Lal Chowk To A New J&K: The Kashmir Connection In Modi’s 25-Year Journey

From Lal Chowk to Article 370, and from Article 370 to development, Modi’s Kashmir journey is the story of a political idea that travelled with him...

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Straight Talk | Twenty-Five Years, No Defeats: What Makes Narendra Modi Invincible?

Where Modi has genuinely out-thought nearly everyone trying to catch him on a stumble is turning crisis straight into proof of resolve

07.10.2026 30

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Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra

Opinion | The Elephants We Love, The Elephants We Harm

Perhaps the real measure of Kerala’s love for elephants is not how loudly we celebrate them, but whether we are willing to change the way we treat...

06.10.2026 30

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Prajesh Panikkar

Opinion | Why Oppn's Manufactured Outrage Over Electoral Rolls Is A Threat To Democracy

The Special Intensive Revision is not 'disenfranchisement'; it is a vital constitutional exercise to clean up corrupted rolls and protect national...

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Prosenjit Nath

Opinion | From Ground Zero: Why Drug-Free Bharat Is An Imperative

Under the vision of PM Modi and the determined execution of HM Amit Shah, India has set itself an ambitious, time-bound goal: to uproot drug trade by...

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Tuhin A Sinha

Opinion | Punjabi Belongs On J&K's Official Language List

Punjabi-speaking communities have deep historical roots in the region, and Punjabi has been part of J&K’s linguistic and cultural landscape for...

05.10.2026 20

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Tejinder Singh Sodhi

Right Word | A Verdict That Dismantles The ‘Theft Of Votes’ Narrative

As the Opposition keeps alleging “theft of votes” and questioning EC and the Modi government, the Supreme Court’s May 2026 order on SIR gives a...

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Arun Anand

Opinion | India's Defence Diplomacy Has A New Roadmap: What RAKSHA Means For Next Decade

The defence ministry called defence diplomacy "a core pillar of India's foreign policy" and said the document gives a clear, actionable vision for the...

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Vallari Parashar

Opinion: The Cinema Hall Has A Lakshmana Rekha. OTT Needs One Too

It is important that OTT platforms follow the same basic standards we have long applied to films in a cinema hall

04.10.2026 10

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Siddhartha Chepuri

Opinion: Why Demography Panel’s Religious Data Drive Is Crucial For India’s Future

Policymakers can use such detection to safeguard social welfare benefits, electoral rolls, and public distribution systems

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Abhijit Majumder

Opinion | Real Deal: The Girls Bollywood Didn’t Quite Launch

For decades, Bollywood decided when a heroine had arrived. Now, sometimes, the audience gets there first.

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Tavishi Paitandy