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There’s no need to make the right to vote a fundamental right. It’s already well-protected

Universal Adult Franchise needs stronger enforcement than it currently enjoys. But the prescription of elevation to fundamental right status is only...

yesterday 8

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K.b.s Sidhu

India doesn’t have Left-Right divide in Lok Sabha. MP concerns are tied to geography

The US Congress sorts itself into two near-perfectly separated clusters. Democrats on one side, Republicans on the other. Data shows that's not the...

yesterday 5

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Piyush Zaware

Bengal budget formally ends state’s long fight with Centre. Betting big on double-engine

As a newly elected MLA on 4 May, Swapan Dasgupta was talking about how West Bengal needs a new narrative. The new budget has shown what he meant.

yesterday 7

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Deep Halder

How the Strait of Hormuz oil crisis is really going to cost India

The reason we’re not talking about the cost of an oil barrel yet isn’t that we paid for it; rather, someone else paid for it on our behalf and...

yesterday 7

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Bidisha Bhattacharya

Belgium’s greatest footballing era is fading. The 2026 FIFA World Cup shows why

In the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Belgium has earned just two successive draws in Group G—a 1-1 stalemate against Egypt, followed by a tense, 10-man 0-0...

yesterday 7

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Akshat Mohan

Norway’s Viking Row celebrations in World Cup show why football is the ultimate team sport

Norway's ‘Viking Row’ is charming and aggressive. It says that top players like Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard are hardened warriors who have...

yesterday 8

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Saptak Datta

My absence is not silence. Though I am away, I am with people of Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina

I will return with the commitment to restore democracy and the spirit of the liberation war, writes former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina on the 77th...

yesterday 5

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Sheikh Hasina

CM Vijay has begun the corruption clean-up. Can he sustain it?

Vijay has understood that the issue of petty corruption touches a political chord. Media's failure to recognise this was one of the reasons his...

yesterday 7

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Mukund Padmanabhan

How does China see US’ Indo-Pacific name change?

Last week, during the G7 summit, the US Department of War announced that the United States Indo-Pacific Command has reverted back to its former...

yesterday 9

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Sana Hashmi

BJP MPs barely raise issues from election manifestos in Lok Sabha. Congress does worse

The manifesto is the party speaking to voters. The question paper is the MP speaking to the state. But the size of the gap matters.

yesterday 7

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Piyush Zaware

Our foreign policy contradiction today—Modi is visible, India is not

Today’s diplomacy often appears oddly eager for approval, as if foreign policy is an influencer campaign for Modi measured in likes, shares,...

previous day 20

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Sagarika Ghose

Every time women produce proof of sexual harassment, the goalpost moves

From K Raghavendra Rao to the Justice Hema Committee, evidence rarely changes anything when powerful men are involved.

previous day 10

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Karanjeet Kaur

Is the consensus around Indo-Pacific changing? The divergence has been long time coming

India is being written out of core contingencies – Taiwan and the South China Sea.

previous day 10

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Sidharth Raimedhi

Haryana with lower sex ratio records more girl adoptions then Kerala—what central data reveals

According to parliamentary records, approximately 30,000 families were registered and on the CARA waiting list as of 2022. For every child looking for...

previous day 10

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Payal Seth

Yesterday’s militants in Punjab are martyrs for today. BJP’s hope in a non-Hindu majority state

After establishing a foothold in West Bengal, the BJP eyes the Sikh-majority state by building a new, aggressive electoral strategy.

previous day 9

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D.k. Singh

How India’s maitrata doctrine benefits from the US-Iran truce

By juxtaposing cultural diplomacy like International Yoga Day with high-stakes geopolitical dialogue, New Delhi cements its global role.

previous day 10

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Meenakashi Lekhi

Why India’s NEET V2.0 exam should worry us all

Relying on war-like efforts and prime-ministerial intervention for NEET exposes a deep lack of institutional strength.

previous day 8

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R Jagannathan

A parent’s plea to CBSE—don’t turn the 3-language policy into a mid-session experiment

Educational reforms should protect students caught between old and new systems. Instead, the present implementation of the new policy risks doing...

monday 6

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Shillpi A Singh

If your skin isn’t responding to acne remedies, you might have fungal acne

Fungal acne so closely resembles ordinary acne that many people endure prolonged frustration with the wrong treatments.

monday 10

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Deepali Bhardwaj

Why India needs more gymkhanas to participate in the Olympics

Sporting excellence requires more than passion. It demands infrastructure, coaching, discipline, exposure and continuity. Institutions like Gymkhana...

monday 9

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Jasjit Singh

I don’t want to be my father

My father was present but left no memories. Now a father myself, I understand what he missed — and why involved fathers matter more than they admit.

monday 9

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Prashant Dixit

Madonna’s tie-up with Grindr made me hate her new album with a passion

Grindr’s married-with-two-kids, conservative CEO wants it to be more than just a hookup app. He calls it “The Global Gayborhood in Your Pocket™”.

monday 10

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Prasanna Bachchhav

Instagram’s AI romance comics are just Star Plus serials with glossy lips and whiter skin

By resurrecting Photoromance Darling and Manohar Kahaniya for the internet generation, Instagram’s AI-armed “authors” are scratching a familiar need.

21.06.2026 9

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Prasanna Bachchhav

There’s a simple reason why Friends still works—absurdity of adulthood is timeless

In recent years, saying goodbye to the show has become an unfortunate ritual. Now, with the death of James Burrows, another important figure behind...

21.06.2026 10

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Samah Qundeel

Tolerance is more than putting up with something which is distasteful: Abid Hussain

In 1994, former Ambassador of India to the US Abid Hussain delivered a speech as part of the Sardar Patel Memorial lectures, highlighting the features...

21.06.2026 10

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Abid Hussain

Judge’s Tinder scam shows one thing. Shame is the biggest obstacle to investigation

Even when victims file a case chats are deleted, facts are selectively disclosed and relationships are described incompletely. All the embarrassing...

21.06.2026 10

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Jitendra Mohananey

Priyank Kharge is right about RSS transparency. He should ask the same of political parties

Priyank Kharge's questions about the RSS's finances, legal status and transparency are legitimate. But the larger issue is why India's political...

20.06.2026 10

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Shankar Sharan

India is mistaking data localisation for digital sovereignty. It must control the traffic system

India's digital sovereignty debate remains focused on where data is stored. But in the age of AI, sovereignty increasingly depends on who controls...

20.06.2026 10

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Suresh Prabhu

Indians need a reality check on studying in the UK. Plan better if you want to settle abroad

Study-abroad firms are focused on enrolling more students, not helping them plan long-term career prospects. And universities market opportunities...

20.06.2026 10

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Amana Begam

Geopolitics is back. We are again grappling with 19th-century questions

World affairs in the last few years have made a certain gloom descend upon strategic thought. One does not need to be a pessimist to sense that...

20.06.2026 10

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Swasti Rao

Cristiano Ronaldo’s legacy cannot be changed. A true leader must know when to step down

Cristiano Ronaldo remains a legendary figure, but the numbers are hard to ignore. Against DR Congo, he failed to register a shot on target despite...

20.06.2026 10

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Mohammad Hammad

What happens when a university burns in war? Science is difficult to rebuild

When Karazin University in Kharkiv fell silent in the spring of 2022, what was lost was not a database. It was a living epistemic...

20.06.2026 10

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Pranav Sharma

The 48-team FIFA World Cup is producing football’s best stories

2026 FIFA World Cup so far—messy, expensive, controversial and brilliant.

20.06.2026 10

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Saptak Datta

Chicago to Hooghly—yoga is coming back to Kolkata after travelling the world

Today, with the celebration of International Day of Yoga in Kolkata, it feels like a beautiful homecoming of yoga to the land from where its message...

20.06.2026 10

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Prataprao Jadhav

Yoga’s success isn’t annual celebrations. It must be adopted in daily lives

India’s yoga vision has always been universal. The expanding global embrace of yoga demonstrates that ancient wisdom continues to offer meaningful...

20.06.2026 10

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Vaidya Kotecha

Socialism has failed everywhere, it won’t survive in India: M. R. Pai

As a citizen of Indian democracy, I oppose socialism mainly on four grounds.

20.06.2026 10

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M R Pai

Why the G7 needs India

India is valuable to the G7 precisely because it is not Western.

19.06.2026 10

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Shishir Priyadarshi

How a jobs crisis helped Tibet become the centre of the Buddhist world

Once in demand as far as Japan, over the course of the 10th and 11th centuries, Indian Buddhist translators found both international and domestic...

19.06.2026 10

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Anirudh Kanisetti

Main Vaapas Aaunga is a masterclass in how memory works. Don’t look at it as a hit or flop

Imtiaz Ali's Main Vaapas Aaunga isn’t your typical Partition film. It isn’t about victimhood, or a yearning to return to the homeland or about...

19.06.2026 10

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Rama Lakshmi

When I was Karnataka CM, we introduced CET. Why can’t NEET recreate its success—Veerappa Moily

It is quite clear that fraud has been committed in the NEET system. It needs major surgery. The ultimate result will be inferior quality of doctors.

19.06.2026 10

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M. Veerappa Moily

Someone call Fashion Police. The retro fringe trend needs to die

Thanks to Chanel, we now live in a world where Sabyasachi sells terrifying tasselled leather bucket bags that look like mop heads.

19.06.2026 10

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Deborah Hauzel

Reset, rapprochement or relief? What Modi and Trump bonhomie in France achieved

The Modi-Trump meeting in Evian produced few concrete outcomes, but its significance lay in preventing a further deterioration of India-US ties. After...

19.06.2026 10

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Swasti Rao

Colombia’s 1st win in World Cup reopened old wounds for Radamel Falcao

For Colombia, the 2026 FIFA World Cup is about participating after almost a decade. But, for Falcao, it’s a reminder of a World Cup moment that...

19.06.2026 10

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Saptak Datta

Iran-US MoU is an opportunity for India. Or forget the $5-trillion economy

India cannot afford another trade and energy disruption if it is serious about becoming a five-trillion-dollar economy soon.

19.06.2026 10

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Seshadri Chari

The problem isn’t children on social media. It’s how the apps are designed

Rather than exiling children from social media platforms altogether, we must focus on reshaping those spaces to make them age-appropriate, safer and...

19.06.2026 10

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Alekhya Sattigeri

Main Vaapas Aaunga is the movie India needs but doesn’t want

Veer Zara in many ways feels like the spiritual predecessor to Main Vaapis Aunga. Both films insist on the same idea that has now become strangely...

19.06.2026 10

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Samah Qundeel

Chinese media says Modi’s response to US killing Indian crew is weak

'Before the US–India meeting, the US military bombed three ships carrying Indian crew members. Modi, known for his ‘strongman politics’, has now...

18.06.2026 20

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Sana Hashmi

Hyderabad is conservative at its core. It isn’t quite the modern global city others view it as

As great as Hyderabad is to live in, it lags behind cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru or even Delhi in terms of how conservative it is, especially when it...

18.06.2026 20

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Yunus Lasania

You can’t have a 2026 hot girl summer without adding sparkle, shimmer to your fashion

Spending three hours on a 'no-makeup makeup look' was a collective delusion anyway. It's time to bedazzle your entire life.

18.06.2026 10

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Deborah Hauzel

Nepal is reimagining its relationship with China. What this means for India

Observers in Kathmandu suggest that for Nepal, the central question should not be whether India approves or disapproves, but whether such projects are...

18.06.2026 10

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Rishi Gupta