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There’s a mystery unfolding in Delhi’s Lodhi Garden—Grey and pied hornbills are co-parenting

Retired school principal, Anu Mathur, shared pictures of an unusual phenomenon on her birding Whatsapp group. It has flummoxed birders and scientists...

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Bharati Chaturvedi

Should we leave writing to AI? Even literary prize juries can’t identify good writing

The primary revelation of the Commonwealth Prize debacle is not that AI-generated writing is finally good—but that institutions that set the...

yesterday 10

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Sanjana Ramachandran

Can an atheist and a believer fall in love? Most Indians draw a hard line

The chances of a communist marrying a capitalist are higher than a god-fearing person successfully dating someone who winces every time they hear,...

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Ratan Priya

Honda has plans for India. The new City signals commitment

Other than some cosmetic changes on the outside, like a new nose and connected headlights, the new Honda City is the same fifth-generation car that...

yesterday 10

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Kushan Mitra

Gap between religion and science will be fatal to the progress of human society: Zakir Husain

On 10 January 1968, Dr Zakir Husain delivered an address at the inauguration of the International Inter-Religious Symposium on Peace in New Delhi,...

yesterday 10

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Zakir Husain

How ThePrint School of Journalism’s Batch 5 interns learned journalism the hard way

Twenty-one TPSJ interns produced over 100 stories at ThePrint. Here's what they learned about reporting, rewriting, newsroom culture and journalism...

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Shailaja Bajpai

The Quad is fading. India must now confront the limits of strategic ambiguity

Marco Rubio’s India visit left a lingering sense of disappointment over the Quad. The grouping is no longer the centrepiece of the US...

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Swasti Rao

England’s FIFA World Cup squad is missing its stars. Why that’s a good thing

England has finally realised that to win a match, a team is more necessary than star players whose egos clashed with each other on the field.

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Saptak Datta

Siddaramaiah’s resignation without drama doesn’t guarantee stability in Karnataka politics

Anyone familiar with Siddaramaiah’s political career knows that he does not react well to orders that threaten his power or legacy.

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Sharan Poovanna

Myanmar wants to distance from China. India offers a relationship without domination

President Hlaing is set to visit Bodh Gaya, hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, participate in a business forum, and visit...

previous day 10

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Pradeep nair

IAF isn’t India’s courier service—3 reasons it ideally shouldn’t fly NEET papers

India has more than 1,300 civilian and state-operated aircraft. NEET paper distribution should not require diverting scarce IAF assets from their...

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Avm Manmohan Bahadur

Ranveer Singh’s stardom isn’t immunity. He’s put countless people’s livelihood at risk

Hindi cinema is happy to celebrate the scale of its productions, but that scale is built on people whose names never appear in headlines and whose...

previous day 10

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Tarini unnikrishnan

When the rupee’s value keeps falling, govt servants grow more corrupt: Pheroze J. Shroff

If the Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers do even one-tenth of the sermonizing to their own colleagues in the ministries as they do to the people,...

previous day 10

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Pheroze j. shroff

The pleasure of watching an Instagram downfall and cancel culture

You can dismiss the bottomless teapot as a symptom of the meme economy. Everything is content, and everyone wants their share of the pie. But it comes...

previous day 10

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Prasanna Bachchhav

DK Shivakumar—the ‘Rock’ at the door of power. What it means for Karnataka and Congress

Congress leader DK Shivakumar is patient, transactional, fiercely loyal, administratively ambitious, and unafraid of power. Is Karnataka ready for the...

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Rasheed Kidwai

Maharashtra’s pending grievance count doubled in 2 years. UP handles complaints far better

For the first time, a sitting government is publicly scoring its ministries on how fast they clear files, respond to Cabinet notes, and resolve...

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Payal Seth

UCC should be built around constitutional values, not religious morality

The real question is not whether India needs a UCC. The question is: what kind of UCC does India want to build?

friday 10

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Amana Begam

Donald Trump’s Abraham Accords ultimatum has put Pakistan in a strategic trap

Several Arab states normalised relations with Israel without facing major domestic opposition while preserving their political identity. But Pakistan...

friday 10

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Seshadri Chari

Indian teenage sex shouldn’t be a crime. There’s a problem with POCSO

The logic of 18 years is linked to marriage, and its telos remains that legitimate sex means only reproduction, whereas it conceptually attempts to...

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Shailesh Kumar

TMC’s collapse does not suit BJP—because the Left is waiting in Bengal

The Falta bypoll result has brought the Left back into conversation. After BJP candidate Debangshu Panda, CPM-backed candidate Shambhu Nath Kurmi came...

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Deep Halder

The Desi Aunty is getting a new twist in Deli Boys. Powerful, maternal, unhinged

Lucky Aunty from Hulu's Deli Boys is not a respectable aunty upgraded with naughty one-liners. She is a South Asian crime boss in her 50s

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Tarini unnikrishnan

How Indians can have their gold and curb imports too

There is a need to devise innovative, unconventional mechanisms that encourage people to refrain from buying physical gold.

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Ashwani Mahajan

The Netherlands is confronting its colonial history. It’s time for India to do the same

The fact remains that the VOC did not introduce debt bondage or human trafficking to the Coromandel Coast. It expanded and exploited existing systems.

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Anirudh Kanisetti

Settlement failures affect credibility of the Indian market. Here are three concerns

India’s market regulators have spent 30 years building institutional confidence in exchange infrastructure. It rests on one expectation: If a trade...

28.05.2026 10

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Ajay Shah

Pakistan’s role in West Asia conflict mirrors a familiar pattern—use and discard by the US

Donald Trump’s desire for Pakistan and other Muslim countries to align themselves with the Abraham Accords has put Islamabad in an unusually fraught...

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Vinay Kaura

Modi’s cabinet is looking jaded—it needs new ideas, new faces, removal of deadwood

The NEET paper leaks and the ongoing loss of public confidence in the CBSE exam results show that someone is either sleeping on the watch or not very...

28.05.2026 10

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R Jagannathan

Everybody has a problem with Ananya Panday. It’s just sexism at this point

A recent viral video from ‘Chand Mera Dil’ featured Ananya Panday performing a fusion of Bharatnatyam with hip-hop and locking. Social media...

28.05.2026 10

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Triya Gulati

India’s ‘cockroach’ moment—why Gen Z is turning unemployment into satire

CJP and OJP show that Indian youth are not politically apathetic. Sometimes they speak not through manifestos, but through memes. That should worry...

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Niladri Chatterjee

What the celebration of Mughal Empire leaves out—jihad, extraction and imperial plunder

History often arrives draped in marble, poetry, and romance, while concealing its scars beneath silk. Monuments may dazzle the eyes, but chronicles...

27.05.2026 10

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Aabhas Maldahiyar

After Bengal, BJP must secure the Siliguri Corridor, rebuild ties with Tarique Rahman

It is in India’s interests to seek to improve ties and prevent outside powers from being able to build anti-India constituencies inside Bangladesh.

27.05.2026 10

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R Jagannathan

Is Vijay’s TVK ideologically bankrupt?

TVK's pragmatic centrism, founded on coalition and compromise and favouring wide appeal over rigid doctrinal purity, has got Vijay where he is. This...

27.05.2026 10

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Mukund Padmanabhan

For Nehru, science wasn’t an industry. It was a disposition, an etiquette

There is a photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru that almost everyone in India has seen, even if they couldn’t tell you where or when it was taken — the...

27.05.2026 10

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Pranav Sharma

Modi govt vs Delhi Gymkhana Club is not class war. It’s a distraction from Billionaire Raj

The Delhi Gymkhana Club may symbolise old Lutyens privilege, but the Modi government’s real legacy is unprecedented concentration of wealth, crony...

27.05.2026 10

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Amitabh Dubey

From Kolkata to Quad, Marco Rubio’s India visit sparks anxiety and mockery in China

Chinese commentators saw Marco Rubio’s India visit as more than diplomacy — linking it to Quad revival, Indo-Pacific strategy, US-China rivalry...

27.05.2026 10

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Sana Hashmi

UPI isn’t a payment system anymore. It’s India’s GDP tracker

UPI data shows how 350 million people spend and transact in India every month. The question is whether India's statistical establishment is treating...

27.05.2026 10

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Payal Seth

Football can be cruel, some stars won’t play 2026 World Cup—Lewandowski to Kvaratskhelia

The World Cup comes once every four years, but careers aren’t aligned accordingly. One injury, one failed qualification campaign, one bad season,...

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Saptak Datta

Rainfall derivatives have arrived in India. We need 3 steps to make them work

The new RAINMUMBAI contract covers the monsoon months and makes a payout based on the occurrence and magnitude of predefined weather conditions....

26.05.2026 20

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Renuka Sane

India must stop being the ‘gentle elephant’. Modi’s Europe tour marks a strategic shift

Narendra Modi’s visit to the Netherlands was long overdue. His recent visit resulted in the upgrading of the bilateral relationship with the...

26.05.2026 20

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Bhaswati Mukherjee

Twisha Sharma’s death became another public trial of a modern Indian woman

From Twisha Sharma to Sunanda Pushkar and Jiah Khan, India has long perfected a cruel ritual—turning dead women into the accused while the real...

26.05.2026 20

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Karanjeet Kaur

How did West Bengal fare during 34 years of Left rule? Here’s the good and the bad

Between 1977 and 2011, West Bengal experienced a steady decline in its poverty rate. This was reflected in the increasing share of the Left Front’s...

26.05.2026 20

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Sanjeev Chopra

The rupee does not need a defender. It needs an economy worth defending

RBI had expended more than $30 billion in three months in an attempt to stabilise the rupee, yet the currency still reached an unprecedented low of Rs...

26.05.2026 10

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Bidisha Bhattacharya

Skip the lies about Delhi Gymkhana Club being a secret power centre and answer 5 questions

The Delhi Gymkhana Club is not the beating heart of India’s wealthy and powerful elite. Nor is it a bastion of the liberal establishment.

26.05.2026 20

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Vir Sanghvi

Aishwarya Rai cannot win the Indian beauty debate. Her Cannes appearance is proof

For years, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was mocked for gaining weight and oversized sleeves. This was a departure from body-hugging gowns & delicate sarees...

25.05.2026 20

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Triya Gulati

India can’t afford to keep slipping on oil crises

The easing of tensions between the US and Iran may prevent another economic crisis, but India’s long dependence on imported oil and gas remains a...

25.05.2026 20

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Tn Ninan

This Harappan city holds the solution to India’s water crisis

Archaeology offers something increasingly rare in combating global water crisis—a long-term perspective on how human societies learned to live with...

25.05.2026 20

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Disha Ahluwalia

From summer camps to ISRO missions—Indian women are leading STEM

The message is clear—scientific excellence doesn’t have a gender. Young girls can and should dream of touching the sky, literally and figuratively.

25.05.2026 20

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Meenakashi Lekhi

There’s never just one cockroach. Abhijeet Dipke only turned on the light

It is tempting to frame the CJP in the context of Vijay’s success in Tamil Nadu and Gen Z movements in Bangladesh, Nepal. But the same instances...

25.05.2026 20

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D.k. Singh

What if the Strait of Hormuz never fully reopens?

Bullion prices climbed as signs of progress in US-Iran talks raised hopes of reopening the Strait of Hormuz and easing pressure on energy markets.

25.05.2026 20

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Javier Blas

Maharashtra govt’s new promotion rule is another barrier for SC professionals, mockery of law

When a Dalit officer earns a promotion through superior performance, administrative interventions step in to preserve the unreserved slot for...

25.05.2026 20

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Nikhil sanjay rekha adsule

RBI’s defence of the rupee has its limits. Tough calls may lie ahead

RBI could give up its current interest rate position and hike rates, encouraging foreign capital to profit from that. But that hike would incur a cost...

25.05.2026 20

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Dhiraj Nayyar