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Tame inflation before it turns into anger

Tame inflation before it turns into anger

The Government must act swiftly to protect purchasing power before the squeeze on livelihoods turns into wider economic and political discontent One...

13.10.2026 20

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Knowing When Enough Is Enough

Knowing When Enough Is Enough

Contentment is not having a great deal; it is knowing when we have enough. In Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa, a young scholar named Kautsa finished his...

13.10.2026 10

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Daiv

Repeating story of human birth — uncontrolled mind

Repeating story of human birth — uncontrolled mind

Imagine yourself riding in a chariot travelling along a road of peace, bliss and liberation (Kathopanishad 1.3.3-4). You have decided to give the...

13.10.2026 10

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Ajit Kumar Bishnoi

Naga peace in peril

Naga peace in peril

The decade-old Framework Agreement remains hostage to disagreements over sovereignty, a separate flag and constitution, and a deepening trust deficit....

13.10.2026 10

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Ashok K Mehta

Preparing for the D-day

Preparing for the D-day

Disasters are inevitable; devastation is not. The key lies in preparing for them before they hit and preventing them Every year on October 13, the...

12.10.2026 20

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Strength That Waits Unseen

Strength That Waits Unseen

Strength does not vanish when it is hidden; sometimes it waits, protected, for the right time. After twelve years in the forest, the Pandavas had to...

12.10.2026 20

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Daiv

Children have spoken. Schools must now answer

Children have spoken. Schools must now answer

In early 2022, the Education Ministry asked 3.79 lakh schoolchildren how they were doing. Eighty-one per cent said studies, examinations and results...

12.10.2026 20

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Nandita Bhatia

Digital sovereignty outweighs Musk’s convenience

Digital sovereignty outweighs Musk’s convenience

India’s long-term digital resilience depends on supporting domestic entities that have true skin in the game. Domestic operations are bound directly...

12.10.2026 30

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Priyanka Chaturvedi

The Nobel goes to the law, not the loudest

The Nobel goes to the law, not the loudest

By honouring Navi Pillay for her defence of human rights and international law, the Nobel Committee has made a pointed statement in an era of eroding...

11.10.2026 20

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The Best Offering Is the Dearest One

The Best Offering Is the Dearest One

Worship is tested not by what we offer when it is easy, but by what we are willing to offer when it is not. According to a tradition retold in the...

11.10.2026 20

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Daiv

The gift that goes beyond giving

The gift that goes beyond giving

What if a gift could keep giving? Could it have a second life, an afterlife, long after the wrapping paper has been discarded? I found an interesting...

11.10.2026 20

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Namrata Kohli

Navi Pillay: A voice for justice in a world at war

Navi Pillay: A voice for justice in a world at war

From apartheid-era South Africa to the highest institutions of international justice, Navi Pillay has spent her life defending the vulnerable and...

11.10.2026 20

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Santhosh Mathew

Dancing with Dad: Who will be there after me?

Dancing with Dad: Who will be there after me?

Watching Dancing with Dad at Stein Auditorium, the performance raises a question that shadows many parents’ lives: who will care for a child when...

11.10.2026 20

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Jeevesh Gupta Harish Jain

Sino-Indian transactions of territory and trade

Sino-Indian transactions of territory and trade

Scepticism surrounding Chinese diplomatic agreements is highly justified given the historical pattern of unilateral actions along the LAC A day after...

11.10.2026 30

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Anil Bhat

The Fear That Weighs on the Body

The Fear That Weighs on the Body

Fear rarely stays in the mind. It settles in the body, and we begin to feel it as weakness, tension and even pain. Arjuna, the finest archer of his...

10.10.2026 20

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Daiv

US Green-card freeze tests Indian IT yet again

US Green-card freeze tests Indian IT yet again

Washington’s suspension of green-card processing for eight companies, including TCS and Infosys, raises questions over due process and election-year...

10.10.2026 30

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World Mental Health Day: Heard, but not yet helped

World Mental Health Day: Heard, but not yet helped

India's mental health conversation has never been louder. On World Mental Health Day, October 10, campaigns flood social media and webinars...

10.10.2026 20

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Gracy Andrew

India’s ambitions hostage to geopolitics

India’s ambitions hostage to geopolitics

US sanctions and escalating regional tensions have stalled India’s ambitions for Iran’s Chabahar port, a vital gateway to Afghanistan, Central...

10.10.2026 100

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Parul Chandra

The new-age policing: Smarter, faster, more humane

The new-age policing: Smarter, faster, more humane

In a fast-changing world, police performance will be judged not by the number of tech-based applications launched, but by the number of crimes that do...

09.10.2026 10

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Ajay Singhal

Gaza demands more than a ceasefire

Gaza demands more than a ceasefire

Three years after the October 7 massacre, the last Israeli hostage is home, but Gaza lies devastated, while the region remains scarred and its future...

09.10.2026 20

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What patience teaches us about progress

What patience teaches us about progress

Concrete offers an unfashionable lesson to a civilisation addicted to speed: strength takes time. A freshly poured slab may look complete, but its...

09.10.2026 20

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Siddharth Roy

Running in Torn Spikes

Running in Torn Spikes

Resources can be borrowed or bought, but the belief to keep running has to be built from within. Gurvindervir Singh, a 25-year-old sprinter from...

09.10.2026 20

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Daiv

25 years of leadership

25 years of leadership

Cabinet hails Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s uninterrupted 25 years of leadership, inspired by ‘Nation First, Citizen First’, despite challenges...

08.10.2026 40

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Music as an Offering, not a Performance

Music as an Offering, not a Performance

Greatness is not measured by how many people applaud us, but by what we do with what we have been given. M.S. Subbulakshmi, whose voice made...

08.10.2026 20

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Daiv

The pilgrimage within

The pilgrimage within

It is a common belief in Indian culture that pilgrimage, or tirtha, as it is called in Hindi, is a great religious endeavour and is essential for true...

08.10.2026 20

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Rajyogi Brahma Kumar Nikunj Ji

India’s blue economy: The next wave of opportunity

India’s blue economy: The next wave of opportunity

A strong Blue Economy can transform sustainable fisheries and aquaculture to improve incomes and nutritional security. Modern ports, shipping and...

08.10.2026 30

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Jitendra Singh

India-Swiss ties need a fourth T: Tracking

India-Swiss ties need a fourth T: Tracking

Switzerland’s President Guy Parmelin’s second visit to India this year signals a relationship moving beyond traditional commerce When a Swiss...

07.10.2026 30

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A Little Duty That Saves From Great Fear

A Little Duty That Saves From Great Fear

Dharma is tested least in comfort and most in the last moments of our strength. In September 2026, on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Captain Smit...

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Daiv

Optimising life through spiritual practice

Optimising life through spiritual practice

We are all different and, therefore, must personalise our spiritual practices and daily routine. Only then can these be sustained. Lord Krishna has...

07.10.2026 20

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Ajit Kumar Bishnoi

Am Yisrael Chai, Captain Smit

Am Yisrael Chai, Captain Smit

On 30-9, the world was rocked by the unbelievable scenes of courage, bravery and singular heroism of the pilot and passengers of flydubai FZ-1073 on...

07.10.2026 20

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Sanjay Lazar

Pakistan’s catch-22 over Yemen

For eleven years, Islamabad has dodged one question: will it fight for Saudi Arabia? In April 2015, Parliament unanimously chose neutrality in Yemen...

06.10.2026 20

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Pakistan’s Yemen dilemma deepens

For years, Pakistan maintained an extraordinary  military relationship with Saudi Arabia while carefully avoiding one commitment, ie, boots on the...

06.10.2026 20

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Bhopinder Singh

Artificial Intelligence and the Anvil of Ahimsa, Satya, Sarvodaya

Advocates of Artificial Intelligence (AI) promise an era of unprecedented productivity and abundance, scientific breakthroughs and economic growth....

06.10.2026 20

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Harpreet Kaur \ Niranjan Rajpurohit

The Boy Who Insisted on Seeing God

Vivekananda, before becoming a monk, was known simply as Narendra, a sharp, restlessly questioning young man thoroughly unwilling to accept matters of...

06.10.2026 30

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Daiv

India steps into the role of mediator

Kyiv’s endorsement of India’s Ukraine peace proposal strengthens New Delhi’s credentials as a credible peacemaker and could bolster its standing...

05.10.2026 30

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The Devotee Who Argued with God

Devotion, at its most honest and unfiltered, does not always resemble quiet, passive submission. Markandeya, destined from birth to die at the young...

05.10.2026 30

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Daiv

The lessons schools don’t teach

Even though our kids spend years studying for exams, some of the most significant tests they will encounter in life don’t have textbooks, grades or...

05.10.2026 40

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Sakshi Sethi

Election Commission: A question of trust

The questions were once raised by the Opposition. Today, they are being raised from within the Election Commission itself. India’s voters deserve an...

05.10.2026 20

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Pritam Singh

The ‘Deputy’ gets a book

Manoj Madaan’s DEPUTY: Second to None makes the case for the leaders who never get the corner office, and its New Delhi launch showed how many of...

04.10.2026 20

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Team Agenda

India’s journey from colonial rule to Independence through heritage lens

As India marks 80 years of Independence, MOHAR (Museum of Heritage and Art at Ramgarh), an initiative of the Shruti Foundation, presented “Raj Se...

04.10.2026 20

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Gyaneshwar Dayal

The war that shattered Iraq

They came. They ruined. They handed us back to the same old enemies. This is how a war supposedly fought for security can end: with a country left...

04.10.2026 150

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Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The captain who would not fall

A terrorist tried to turn an aircraft into a weapon. A brave Indian captain stood like a wall between his passengers and a certain catastrophe On the...

03.10.2026 30

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The King Who Chose Truth Over His Throne

Some stories test not our physical strength or courage, but simply our willingness to keep a promise once honoring it becomes genuinely costly. King...

03.10.2026 30

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Daiv

When engineers plan for the unknown

Engineers rarely speak of wisdom. They speak of loads, stresses, tolerances, margins and safety factors. Yet hidden inside one of engineering’s most...

03.10.2026 30

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Siddharth Roy

The future of tourism lies in partnership

If we can bring together political will, public investment, private enterprise and the participation of our people, tourism can become far more than...

03.10.2026 40

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Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

The man we honour, the Mahatma we forget

Every October 2, India performs a familiar ritual: wreaths at Rajghat, a dry day and a holiday. The harder question is whether the country still...

02.10.2026 30

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India’s long road to a permanent UNSC seat

India is campaigning for both a permanent and a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Securing a permanent seat requires significant changes...

02.10.2026 200

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Kalyani Shankar

The Curse Spoken in a Moment of Anger

Sage Durvasa was known equally across the scriptures for his considerable spiritual power and his famously short, unpredictable temper. When...

02.10.2026 20

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Daiv

The unfinished story of India’s handloom weavers

At The Kunj, in New Delhi, Aadyam Handwoven recently brought together handwoven textiles from different weaving clusters across India. Alongside the...

02.10.2026 30

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Namrata Kohli

India’s oil shield: How strong is it really?

India has so far kept the petrol pumps running despite the turmoil around the Strait of Hormuz, but the claim of 80 days of fuel security masks a...

01.10.2026 30

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