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Modi visit shows Argentina now matters. The resource-rich economy has big lessons for India

For the longest time, Argentina has been famous for its beautiful football, shambolic economy, and populist politics. More recently, it has...

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Dhiraj Nayyar

Not ‘One Election’, India needs a just election. Step one is an impartial EC

Indian elections are like an unfair football match. One team is forced to play barefoot.

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Shankar Sharan

Battle over Dalai Lama’s reincarnation is a geopolitical contest with global implications

China views control over the Dalai Lama as critical to cementing its authority over Tibet. While he has long advocated a ‘middle way’ seeking...

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Debdutta Chakraborty

Private enterprise built India’s industries. Now it’s strangled by Gods in Delhi

Political authority and economic power are now concentrated in the hands of ministers and bureaucracy. Democracy is bound to degenerate into...

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M.a. Master

‘He never spoke about why he wanted to die’—Guru Dutt’s sister broke her silence

During my multiple conversations with Guru Dutt’s sister, Lalita Lajmi, for my 2021 biography of him, there were many moments when she was moved by...

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Yasser Usman

Is reading news destroying your femininity? Instagram reels say so

There’s a whole set of rituals to realign you with your feminine essence. Sit and silently stare at yourself in front of the mirror. Learn to...

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Pragya Sharma

Indian justice system fails children every day: Madan Lokur

Child rights initiatives are concentrated in metropolitan areas while children in rural areas are left with makeshift courts such as village...

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Madan B Lokur

Revamp anganwadi model for Viksit Bharat. Workers should be seen as frontline educators

With 26% of India’s 0–6 age population in urban areas, projected to reach 50% by 2047, redesigning ICDS to focus on and expand in urban areas is a...

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Rajib Kumar Sen

ECI’s voter verification drive in Bihar is tailor-made to keep Dalits, Muslims, EBCs out

Aadhaar, ration card, voter ID, and MGNREGA job card—the IDs poor voters actually hold are excluded from ECI's list of documents to prove identity...

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Amitabh Dubey

Why do we pretend SCO still works? China runs it, shields Pakistan, sidelines India

India must now seriously reconsider its involvement in SCO, where China’s writ runs large, Pakistan’s terror networks are never condemned, and...

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Seshadri Chari

For India and China, 2025 is a year of managed contestations, not breakthrough in ties

There is a tendency, especially in diplomatic and at times academic circles, to treat dialogue itself as progress. But the India-China dynamic...

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Eerishika Pankaj

Religious autonomy isn’t absolute. Imarat-e-Shariah protest in Patna sidelined Pasmandas

The Constitution is not just meant to protetct religious autonomy and the collective religious right of a community; it is also supposed to protect...

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Amana Begam

Indian Muslims must face the truth—Muslim countries don’t care about them

There is only one way for Indian Muslims to be respected in the Muslim world: be Indian above all, and situate your Muslimness within Indianness.

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Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Karnataka’s fake news bill won’t survive a court challenge

The Karnataka government’s concerns about regulating misleading speech may be genuine, but the heavy-handed approach adopted in the fake news bill...

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Srishti Joshi

India’s news channels turned Shefali Jariwala’s death into spectacle and speculation

Shefali Jariwala’s sudden death has been attributed to heart failure. No mischief is suspected. But her dying and the cause(s) of her death have...

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Shailaja Bajpai

India’s infrastructure revolution is powering its rise in manufacturing

The opportunity for India is historic, as the country moves from 'build and export' to 'innovate and lead' on the global stage.

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Nikhil Gandhi

Waiting for closure on AI 171 crash, India is still flying blind on aviation safety

The crash report due next week may not be conclusive, but the spate of diversions, emergency landings, and narrow escapes over the past month has...

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Nivedita Mookerji

Modi govt reduced political interference in PSUs. It’s how they became wealth creators

PSUs were generally considered a drain on government resources. However, things have changed dramatically under the Modi Government. This is...

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Gopal Krishna Agarwal

Shaivites wiped out Jain influence in medieval Karnataka—200 years before Delhi Sultans

The Republic of India’s understanding of religious policy should not be based only on this or that North Indian Sultan, but on a sober...

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Anirudh Kanisetti

Amit Shah’s attack on English will club him with Jyoti Basu in West Bengal

In 1983, the Left Front government in West Bengal under Jyoti Basu banned the teaching of English till Class 6, and justified it by citing a...

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Deep Halder

India’s selection for Edgbaston Test shows team management is second-guessing itself

If the aim was to secure balance, then it feels like a rookie move to pick Washington Sundar over Sai Sudharsan. And Kuldeep Yadav's exclusion...

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Triya Gulati

The Preamble won’t be changed back to the original. Here’s why

All political parties used the 'Constitutional' mandate of secularism and Article 29 to provide facilities and privileges exclusively to non-Hindus.

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Shankar Sharan

Chennai is being governed on PowerPoint—plans shine on slides, fail on streets

The city once prided itself on civic order. But under the DMK, it has been made to believe that dysfunction is normal, accountability is too much...

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Vinoj P Selvam

Chinese J-20 isn’t just a fighter jet—it’s a signal to US, Japan and India

A Chinese commentator noted that the J-20’s recent public appearance marked the maturation of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s stealth...

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Sana Hashmi

Brand Mamata Banerjee is losing its biggest support—Bengal’s women voters

The Kasba rape case has brought back memories of the horror of the RG Kar rape and murder case and forced people back on streets in West Bengal.

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Deep Halder

11 years after state formation, where’s Telangana’s history? Govt must fix information gap

Neither Telangana’s textbooks nor the Razakar movie address the feudal system that enabled bonded labour under the Nizam’s Jagirdars.

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Yunus Lasania

Turkey’s looking more like Pakistan every day. Blasphemy-obsessed, imprisoned by hatred

Erdoğan’s beliefs are increasingly evident beyond Turkey’s borders, too. The new regime in Syria has embraced Sharia as the basis of its laws,...

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Praveen Swami

India needs foreign parts for Tejas. Defence atmanirbharta can’t become a weakness

The IAF is often blamed for ignoring homegrown defence equipment. But it’s the government that makes the call.

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Ajay Ahlawat