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Three countries, no common enemy—why the Mecca defence pact is weaker than it looks

The Mecca defence pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan creates synergies that are not in India’s interest by and large, even if they do...

yesterday 10

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Swasti Rao

Free UPI was a policy success and an economic distortion

Six years of zero MDR delivered unprecedented digital payments at the price of underinvestment, rising fraud risk, and market concentration.

yesterday 10

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Renuka Sane

India needs its own social media ecosystem to protect its children

The government must also look at creating indigenous social media platforms with graded exposure to young people.

yesterday 10

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Meenakashi Lekhi

India gold duty changed 8 times in 14 years. What this did to smuggling

India’s fluctuating policy regarding gold imports has oscillated between rates of 2 percent, 10 percent, 6 percent, and 15 percent, with each...

yesterday 1

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Bidisha Bhattacharya

India’s paper leak laws have a long history. So do tardy probes & indifferent prosecution

The certainty of punishment is a bigger deterrent than the extent of punishment.

yesterday 10

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Sanjeev Chopra

Rahul Gandhi finally has an audience that isn’t laughing at him

The symbolism of a sweaty, dishevelled, bleeding Gandhi willing to side with a young population is the hero’s arc the Congress scion has waited over...

yesterday 10

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Karanjeet Kaur

How ancient Sri Lanka managed monsoon flooding—storage systems, embankments, cascading tanks

Dholavira and Sri Lanka both demonstrated similar environmental intelligence. What sets Sri Lanka apart is its willingness to maintain what was built...

previous day 10

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Disha Ahluwalia

Why the world still covers Kashmir like it’s pre-2016

Foreign media correspondents should be willing to document the present Kashmir with the same rigour they did in the past.

previous day 10

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Tehmeena Rizvi

Suu Kyi and Hasina are back. South Asia still can’t move past its strongwomen

The re-emergence of Aung San Suu Kyi and Sheikh Hasina reveals why personality still trumps institutions in India’s neighbourhood

previous day 10

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Rami Niranjan Desai

The great cartoon divide—Boys cause the mess, girls hold the mop

Western shows like The Powerpuff Girls, Scooby Do, and Winx Club let girls make bad decisions before saving the day. But in India, girls like Chutki...

previous day 10

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Nikitha Arathi Naveen

Ted Lasso’s woman boss doesn’t need to be cruel to command a room. Rebecca Welton shows why

Rebecca Welton, played by Hannah Waddingham in Ted Lasso, holds power without becoming a parody of it. Sharp, vain and funny, she shows those traits...

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Stela Dey

Every Indian film today is a testosterone fest. Where’s our Jab We Met?

Spectacle has an unfortunate habit of making everything else look small. As a consequence, romance has lost prime real estate.

previous day 4

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Gracy Narayan

One night at Big Banana—uncle vs queers, Kajra Re and azaadi

At a Delhi dive bar, slurs gave way to songs and dancing, raising a question about who gets to claim a queer space and what it should stand for.

previous day 10

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Prasanna Bachchhav

Bollywood heroes are returning to old playgrounds—Akshay back in comedy, Hashmi in horror

After spending years trying to reinvent themselves, Bollywood’s ageing stars are discovering that audiences may not necessarily want a new version...

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Harsh Tiwari

Courts are masking litigant names in judicial records. It creates more problems than solutions

De-indexing name-based searches from court websites and legal databases may end up having worse consequences for the acquitted or discharged persons...

previous day 4

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Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah

Why one PM Modi-Nitin Nabin photo may worry BJP leaders and karyakartas

Narendra Modi and Nitin Nabin laughing makes a great photo, but it has failed to cheer up BJP workers. They may be wondering what, if anything, now...

previous day 20

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D.k. Singh

Karnataka is holding the downstream states to ransom: Jayalalithaa

In September 2012, Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa addressed the 7th meeting of the Cauvery River Authority in Delhi, accusing Karnataka of denying Tamil...

sunday 20

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J Jayalalithaa

The Maoists are gone, but India should still be wary of a new red insurgency

Manmohan Singh called it our biggest threat 20 years ago. The state won the war, but history shows Left insurgencies don't stay dead for long.

sunday 10

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Praveen Swami

Reading in the age of distraction is quietly becoming a radical luxury

Much like smoking, books too are back in Vogue. Gone are the days of the literati; now is the time of the 'hot literati'. Books boost your sexual,...

sunday 20

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Samah Qundeel

Singles are done with dating apps. Welcome to the era of photobooths and pickleball

From New York’s Missed Connections Booth to India’s singles mixers, the romantically exhausted are ditching swipes for strangers and a little...

sunday 20

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Ratan Priya

Does sunscreen cause vitamin D deficiency? What science says

Myths often survive because they contain a grain of scientific truth. The idea that sunscreen causes vitamin D deficiency sounds perfectly...

sunday 20

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Deepali Bhardwaj

Karnataka is holding the downstream states to ransom: Jayalalithaa

In September 2012, Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa addressed the 7th meeting of the Cauvery River Authority in Delhi, accusing Karnataka of denying Tamil...

sunday 10

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J Jayalalithaa

Why the Toyota Hilux is the ultimate remedy for boring SUVs

Whether you want to conquer off-road puddles or mount a weapons platform, Toyota’s rugged icon stands in a league of its own.

sunday 10

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Kushan Mitra

Move over Bigg Boss, Bhojpuri Bawaal is India’s best reality show. Tej Pratap is a riot

‘Bhojpuri Bawaal’ is almost a compilation of various celeb vlogs. An added treat is that for once, we don’t see Bhojpuri celebrities painted in...

sunday 10

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Harsh Tiwari

The naked dress belongs on red carpets, not your office party. Sheer madness

From Sabrina Carpenter to Bianca Censori, high fashion is playing 'show and tell' with skin. But where on earth do we actually wear it?

sunday 10

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Insha Jalil Waziri

Abhinav Bisht is the breakout star from CJP protest. His brand is TikTok nostalgia

Many wondered what Abhinav Bisht would do after the protest. But it was only the beginning. Hoping to cash in on the Gen Z economy, the geriatric...

sunday 10

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Himanshi Aggarwal

RSS-BJP are playing good cop, bad cop with Indian youth

Now that the ruling Sangh Parivar leaders failed to bend the movement, other faces from the ecosystem are trying to make it their own so that...

08.08.2026 20

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Shankar Sharan

Udhayanidhi vs Vijay is Tamil Nadu’s next-gen duel—Cauvery row to ‘double entendre’ arrest

In a state still adjusting to the end of the Dravidian duopoly, the Cauvery row has intensified the increasingly personalised contest between...

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Shweta Tripathi

Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi pact is not diplomacy alone. It affects India’s military strategy

A critical consequence is that Pakistani leadership may now price an escalation cheaper than earlier. This raises the likelihood of a crisis rather...

08.08.2026 20

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Brigadier Anil Raman

Dear Rajkumar Santoshi, Indian women before 1947 weren’t just wives, mothers, or rebels

Preity Zinta’s 'Batwara 1947' experience revives an old myth: that women’s lives began and ended in the kitchen.

08.08.2026 20

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Stela Dey

Shoot and scoot—what Pakistan’s SH-15 guns mean for India’s artillery

Pakistan has already acquired over 200 Chinese SH-15 truck-mounted howitzers. It is enough to equip around 12 artillery regiments, with 18 guns in...

08.08.2026 20

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Swasti Rao

Prashant Kishor has cracked BJP’s fortress in Bihar. A loud warning bell

With RJD’s popularity nosediving and Nitish’s JDU not in the pink of its health, the non-BJP vote bank will be looking for an alternative...

08.08.2026 20

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Seshadri Chari

India-Bangladesh ties need to move beyond Sheikh Hasina

If a July movement was required to oust Sheikh Hasina, her comeback would need another movement backed by Awami League cadre and supporters.

08.08.2026 20

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Rishi Gupta

True democracy can only be attained through free market economy: G N Lawande

If our aim is to achieve rapid economic development of our country, then there is a need to reduce direct taxes, wrote G N Lawande in 1959.

08.08.2026 5

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G N Lawande

How a scientific ‘consensus’ covered up Covid origins. The emperor has no clothes

The Fauci-Rand Paul hearing shows why the American bureaucracy was not smearing China, but defending it.

07.08.2026 20

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Jaithirth Rao

Who is the voting Gen Z? The Kanwariyas or the Jantar Mantar youth

As Gen Z grows into India’s largest voting-age generation, political parties will have to reckon with its diversity.

07.08.2026 20

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Amana Begam

Hasina’s shadow ends careers in Bangladesh. After president, now army chief faces heat

Bangladesh’s ex-President Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu resigned two years earlier than the stipulated time. The spotlight is now on Chief of Army...

07.08.2026 20

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Deep Halder

Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh return can be her last political gamble. She must plan it well

Sheikh Hasina’s homecoming, if it happens, would undoubtedly be the biggest political spectacle in Bangladesh after the 2024 student-led July...

07.08.2026 20

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Deep Halder

Why Modi blinked first in the student protest

Friends who would never be seen dead at a political event turned up at Jantar Mantar with their kids. Here's what broke the rules of dissent under...

06.08.2026 20

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Amitabh Dubey

BJP’s good times are perhaps ending.But Modi is no Indira Gandhi

Narendra Modi's popularity has carried the BJP through three general elections. But when one leader claims every success, he also risks being blamed...

06.08.2026 20

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Vir Sanghvi

UPI was key to quick commerce boom. What the proposed tax means for industry

While there’s no clarity yet on how much a buyer will need to pay once merchant discount rate kicks in, businesses are typically known to pass on...

06.08.2026 20

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Nivedita Mookerji

13,000 Bhogapuram dancers wasn’t a spectacle. That’s political power since ancient India

Jatakas tell us that Siddhartha Gautama had left behind 40,001 wives when he embarked in search of enlightenment. These were not meant to be taken...

06.08.2026 10

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Anirudh Kanisetti

Where are Modi and Shah? TV news has been busy with Prashant Kishor and Udhayanidhi

PM Modi is going through a period of poor visibility in the news media. On Wednesday, the Delhi edition of TOI made no mention of him until page 8.

06.08.2026 10

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Shailaja Bajpai

CJP protest is a turning point for Indian Muslims. Speak as citizens, not as a religious bloc

Political quietude is the ethic that befits a minority. We may call it the Minority Dharma.

06.08.2026 20

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Ibn Khaldun Bharati

Gen Z vote can impact India’s electoral future. Just look at Tamil Nadu

What we are seeing now is not only a new generation of voters asserting its presence, but a change in the very architecture of persuasion itself.

05.08.2026 4

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Mukund Padmanabhan

Beijing supporting Iran with missiles is a Hollywood script, not fact—say the Chinese

"The US can continue to increase arms sales to Taiwan, but if China were to sell weapons to Iran, it would be committing a grave taboo," wrote a...

05.08.2026 10

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Sana Hashmi

Operation Sindoor to Epic Fury, air power is becoming war’s opening move

Air power used to be the instrument of escalation, the thing a state reached for once diplomacy had failed. Increasingly, it is no longer the last...

05.08.2026 10

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Avm Prashant Mohan

Help! Originality is drowning in a sea of spin-offs. It’s not nostalgia just lazy writing

Not every side character needs a backstory, and making Stuart or Georgie lead a show proves television has officially lost the plot.

04.08.2026 10

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Harsh Tiwari

Longevity industry has a blind spot—older adults with spending power and willingness to engage

Investors are pouring billions into extending human lifespan through biotech and biohacking. The bigger opportunity lies in helping older adults stay...

04.08.2026 10

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Vibhav Mariwala

Why Prashant Kishor’s Bankipur victory in Bihar should ring alarm bells for Modi-Shah’s BJP

With an estimated 1.6 lakh of its 3.79 lakh voters being upper-caste Hindus, Bankipur has been a BJP stronghold for three decades. Prashant Kishor has...

04.08.2026 20

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D.k. Singh