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Central Vista to Gymkhana Club — Delhi must improve liveability for all, not just elites

Gymkhana Club debate misses the point. Redevelopment is now a necessity for climate resilience, green spaces, and liveability.

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Meenakashi Lekhi

Why FM Nirmala Sitharaman must listen to investors on capital gains tax

Long-term capital gains on equity are taxed at 12.5 % and short-term at 15 % provided the transactions are done through stock exchanges on which...

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R Jagannathan

India’s majority of workers don’t have social security. New labour reforms can change that

The Code's effects on employment and productivity depend less on its provisions than on how mandates interact with firm size, labour market structure,...

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Farzana Afridi

India’s Captagon seizure shows it is becoming part of a new Middle East drug network

Often termed the ‘Jihadi drug’, Captagon is frequently used by militants to enhance combat endurance and suppress fear.

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Rami Niranjan Desai

Virat Kohli’s 2026 IPL final innings can be summed up in 3 words—confident, classy, ruthless

The old Virat Kohli would have attacked the contest with visible ferocity. The Kohli of today is a more complete and possibly a more dangerous...

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Stela Dey

There’s a problem with UP’s trillion-dollar economy dream

The distinction often overlooked in headline figures is what we economists call the difference between growth and structural transformation.

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Bidisha Bhattacharya

In India’s NEET and CBSE exam crisis, the only adults in the room have been children

The teenagers fighting India's education system have learned an important lesson early and will not all wait around to be failed twice. The sharpest...

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Karanjeet Kaur

Why India needs a dedicated financial conduct regulator

India’s financial system stands at an inflexion point. The expansion has created opportunities, but financial deepening cannot be sustained unless...

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Renuka Sane

Vijay is set to destroy the old, dominant Dravidianism of Tamil Nadu politics

The Dravidian movement's parent organisation gave birth to several offshoots—DK, DMK, AIADMK, MDMK, DMDK, and AMMK. The political developments of...

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R Rajagopalan

Indian tourists can antagonise even the most gentle people in the world

Our obsession with bargaining robs us of something called self-respect. We are prepared to make a spectacle of ourselves.

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Shobhaa de

Romila Thapar has taught India to read history, question it freely

During her 60 years of research and writing, Romila Thapar has contributed to the comprehension of history as an intellectual adventure, by bringing...

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Ramin Jahanbegloo

Why have Indian tourists become so unpopular abroad? We need to look into the mirror

Indians are arrogant, but far from rich. That’s why we have become the world’s least welcome visitors. People may tolerate a rich fool. But nobody...

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Vir Sanghvi

Why RBI’s regulatory intervention is the wrong way to defend the rupee

Viewed individually, each such intervention may appear to be a technical measure. Viewed together, they create four distinct and serious problems.

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Rajeswari Sengupta

The Chetak & Cheetah fleet is ageing and dangerous. It’s high time to replace it

The failures to replace the fleet have left a massive capability gap, forcing the military to continue operating sub-optimal, high-risk assets in the...

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As butola

Will Suvendu Adhikari’s massive welfare schemes outdo Mamata’s doles?—A clash of legacies

Years of dwindling assembly hours and bureaucratic echo chambers cost Mamata Banerjee the state, opening the gates for a new BJP regime.

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Sanjeev Chopra

37 statutory bodies stand between India’s exporters and buyers. Dismantle them

To hit aggressive $2 trillion trade targets, India needs to dismantle outdated trade councils and trust raw market competition.

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Sudhanshu neema

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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Sana Hashmi