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Opinion | Dalai Lama Flashpoint Is Part Of ‘Managed Rivalry’, Won’t Derail India-China Relations

The Dalai Lama’s blunt announcement about continuing with the tradition of reincarnations without letting China meddle in it will spike tensions...

03.07.2025 10

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Opinion | Kolkata Law College Rape Shows Chilling Rot On Campuses In TMC Rule

The brazenness of it all—as in the case of the RG Kar rape and murder—reeks of political syndicates at work on West Bengal’s campuses

01.07.2025 30

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Opinion | As Mumbai Mutes Loudspeakers, ‘Secular’ Politicians Back Errant Mosques

Opinion | As Mumbai Mutes Loudspeakers, ‘Secular’ Politicians Back Errant Mosques

Islam’s self-appointed political guardians are religiously rooting for the noise nuisance to return

30.06.2025 40

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Opinion | Time For India To Stop Wearing The ‘Secular’ And ‘Socialist’ Labels

Opinion | Time For India To Stop Wearing The ‘Secular’ And ‘Socialist’ Labels

One is a colonial, Western construct weaponised against India’s civilisation; the other, an infatuation with Soviet Union and its oppressive...

28.06.2025 20

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Opinion | Nine Deadly Scenarios After US Attack On Iran’s Nukes Which May Reshape Middle East

Is peace going to descend on the Middle East, or is the stormy sea of unending turmoil going to get redder and wider?

24.06.2025 10

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Opinion: As Trump Basks In Fordow Afterglow, Kremlin Has A Counterpoint

Russians believe Trump will scramble for peace in a hurry to hog credit for stopping Israel-Iran war. But Iran will invest all its energies to get...

23.06.2025 10

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Opinion | ‘South Asian’ A Term Coined To Bury Pakistanis' Crimes & Indians’ Feats

If one wanted to be historically accurate, Indian subcontinent is a more precise term because almost all of it was once part of undivided India that...

22.06.2025 10

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Opinion: Why India Should Wish Trump Luck As He Flirts With Pakistan And Asim Munir

Americans have been raising the red flag against unquestioned aid to Pakistan for nearly two decades

20.06.2025 10

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Opinion | XX Factor Of Narendra Modi’s 11 Years: Five Unsung Gems For Women

The force that nurtures Bharat and makes up for half her people is quietly rising, and transformation is happening even in the remotest parts of the...

18.06.2025 10

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Opinion | Delayed Polls, Secret Doha Talks: Yunus Wants To Keep Power At Any Cost

The Nobel laureate today stands like a moral pauper, begging for more time to transfer power, surrendering governance to jihadis, and trying to make...

10.06.2025 10

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Opinion | As Trump's Musk Falls Off At Home, US Reveals Its Two-Faced Foreign Policy

While Trump rode to power lashing out against Islamist terror and the US Deep State’s policy of nurturing it across the world, he has chosen the...

07.06.2025 10

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OPINION | Rahul Gandhi Or Shashi Tharoor: Will The Real Congress Please Stand Up?

While Rahul Gandhi continues to undermine the government, Shashi Tharoor has led India’s most fierce and sophisticated global PR campaign to counter...

06.06.2025 10

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OPINION | How Yogi’s UP Became New Home Of BrahMos Missiles That Destroyed 11 Pakistani Airbases

It was Yogi Adityanath, during the recent inauguration of the BrahMos Aerospace facility in Lucknow, who confirmed the use of the missile in India’s...

31.05.2025 10

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Opinion | How PM Modi’s Idea Of An All-Party Squad After Op Sindoor Works On Five Levels

It is one of India’s strongest shows of bipartisan unity between the government and the Opposition in many decades

29.05.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Yunus’s Each Day In Office Puts Bangladesh, India & Region At Risk

Bangladesh’s economic collapse can set the region in turmoil. To top it, Yunus and his student advisers have facilitated growing jihadism and...

28.05.2025 10

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Opinion | Rahul Gandhi Is Doing Pakistan A Big Favour By Attacking Operation Sindoor

Gandhi has again pulled out in the public domain the Congress’s long and embarrassing list of capitulation and missed the opportunity to be seen as...

22.05.2025 10

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How Jaishankar’s Book Foresaw Trump’s Megalomacy, China And Pakistan’s Psy War

The good news is that the chaos would not have caught the MEA and its boss by surprise. The better news is that much of what we see around us are...

20.05.2025 10

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Opinion | India Won The War, But Lost Narrative Battle To Pakistani & Western Lies

It is time for India to up the PR ante, spend money on building presence in international media, and counter the global negative narrative more...

13.05.2025 30

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OPINION | India’s Operation Sindoor Against Terrorists In Pakistan Is All About Geopolitical Timing

The Indian counterstrikes come at a time of a Trump tariff-induced uncertainty and hectic global trade deals to tide over it.

08.05.2025 10

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Opinion | Satyajit Ray Through Hindu Lens: The Brahmo Who Never Gave Up Brahman

This May 3, Satyajit Ray’s cinema turns 70. The maestro, incidentally, would have turned 104 on May 2

04.05.2025 10

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Opinion | Six Reasons Why Modi Government Has Green-Flagged The Caste Census

The BJP under Modi is an elephant which is astonishingly fast on its feet, and adept at taking sharp political turns. It thinks, consults, mulls, and...

03.05.2025 10

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OPINION | How Congress’s Headless Poster Completes Islamists’ Throat-Slit Metaphor

The Indian National Congress’s social media handles carried a headless image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the caption, ‘Gayab’, or missing.

30.04.2025 20

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Opinion | PM Modi’s Proactive Diplomacy Will Come In Handy When India Responds To Pahalgam Terror

While the Indian Opposition has often criticised PM Modi’s foreign visits, it has been repeatedly proven that his energetic and strategic global...

28.04.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Pahalgam Terror Attack Has Hit India’s Urban, Educated Class So Hard

Pahalgam 22/4 has not only violated the middle and affluent classes’ false sense of safety, but it has struck at the heart of their both intrinsic...

25.04.2025 10

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Opinion | India Needs To Avenge Pahalgam Decisively, But Avoid Geopolitical Landmines

India needs to strike at the heart of the enemy with disproportionately high force and with a strong element of surprise to cripple it permanently

24.04.2025 10

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Opinion | West Bengal Violence Is Straight Out Of Islamists’ Direct Action Day Playbook

Protests have broken out in politically chaotic Bangladesh against the Waqf issue in India, reactivating the Islamist umbilical cord still running...

19.04.2025 20

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Opinion | Aspirations Over Appeasement: PM Modi Decodes Politics Of New India At Rising Bharat 2025

At 74, Narendra Modi knows that he must listen to the new India for his politics and ideas to stay young

09.04.2025 20

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Opinion | Trump Tariffs On India: Cheaper Bourbon And A Rich World Of Opportunities

The Trump administration may have slapped tariffs on India as some sort of equaliser for the country's high tariff card for most US products, but...

08.04.2025 10

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Opinion | Passing Waqf Despite Coalition, PM Modi Proves Bold Decisions Will Not Stop

The Waqf amendments are probably a bigger civilisational reform than lifting Article 370 from J&K because their impact is direct and nationwide

06.04.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Did Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra Evade Waqf Bill Debate?

Insiders say that Rahul — and most likely Priyanka as well — was advised by close aides to desist from delivering a fiery defence of the old Waqf...

06.04.2025 10

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Opinion | Mothabari, Jhaubona Signal Another Blood Storm In West Bengal Before 2026 Elections

Almost every year, Ram Navami and other Hindu festivals invite fresh waves of jihadist violence in West Bengal. But just about a year ahead of the...

01.04.2025 20

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Opinion | Studio Ghibli And Snow White: Why Japan, Korea Best The West In Pop Culture

The West's influence, once wielded by Disney's Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, is in decline. It is because American and European studios have...

31.03.2025 20

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Opinion | Kunal’s Karma And Why Free Speech Absolutism Will Not Work For India

Words must be weighed by adults before being spoken. And once the arrow is released, its consequences must be weighed. The archer cannot simply walk...

29.03.2025 10

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Opinion | When Toys Trigger Nationalism, Outrage, And Spooky Geopolitical Games

The latest edition of the video game Assassin’s Creed, ‘Shadows’, has rocked Japan. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has lambasted the game,...

22.03.2025 10

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Opinion | PM Modi & Snatches Of Plato’s Philosopher-Ruler In Lex Fridman Podcast

The prime minister copiously used metaphors, analogy, deductive and inductive reasoning, argumentation, and problem-solving approaches, which provided...

18.03.2025 20

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Opinion | Time Is Ripe For A Delhi-NCR Drive To Deport Illegal Bangladeshis, Rohingyas

Currently, the BJP has a government in every state in NCR—Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana. It runs the national government at the Centre. All this...

17.03.2025 10

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Opinion | Kashmir Regresses Over Gulmarg Fashion Show As Saudi Embraces Modernity

Unless Kashmir rises from its cloistered and violent baggage of Islamism and embraces modernity, all the splendid roads, tunnels, and railway bridges...

12.03.2025 10

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Opinion | Bangladesh Islamists Start Caliphate Demand; Army Or Anarchy Next?

A period of Army rule, followed by an election involving the BNP, Awami League, Jatiya Party, Jamaat, and all political stakeholders, increasingly...

10.03.2025 10

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Opinion | Jaishankar Attack: India Must Make It Costly For UK To Host Khalistan Movement

The UK has to start bearing the consequences of harbouring anti-India groups and movements. One would have thought a semblance of introspection and...

08.03.2025 10

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Hear The Drumbeats From India’s Forests — Our Wildlife Is Booming

India’s jungles are growing, while not swamping the nation’s road to business and enterprise. And India’s industry, on its part, has not been...

06.03.2025 20

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Opinion | Mamata Banerjee Scores Self-Goal By Stirring Up Voters’ List Issue

If there is indeed brutal scrutiny of the West Bengal voters’ list, it may weed out a large chunk of her devoted voters

04.03.2025 10

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Opinion | DMK’s War Against Hindi: Divorcing Logic, Marrying Prejudice

Given DMK and the Periyar ideology’s long history of attacking Sanatana Dharma and tireless efforts to keep the artificial North-South divide alive...

02.03.2025 30

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Opinion | Modi Started India’s Own DOGE A Decade Ago, But Chainsaw Needed For Bureaucracy Now

Modi government’s quiet and effective drive predated Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s ongoing spectacle to save cost and increase efficiency by 10...

01.03.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Assam Is Such A Crucial Piece In BJP’s Blueprint, PM Modi’s Vision

Assam is being revived and reclaimed. It may not be as dramatic and lightning-quick as Lachit Borphukan’s slaying of the Mughals on the Brahmaputra...

27.02.2025 10

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Opinion | India-Pakistan Cricket Rivalry Is Dead, As We Are No Longer 'Rivals'

India versus Pakistan is today a battle of unequals. A fight with a foregone outcome. There is just the nostalgia of rivalry

25.02.2025 30

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Opinion | FOMO To Reel Filters To Faith: Why Maha Kumbh Is Drawing Gen Z

The sheer number of selfies and shorts on social media suggests there is a steep spike in interest among very young adults

21.02.2025 10

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Opinion | New Waqf Bill Is Civilisational Reform, Benefits Women, Pasmandas, Shias, Ahmadis

The new Waqf Bill, if passed in Parliament, will turn the clock on perhaps the worst legislation of independent India

17.02.2025 20

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Opinion | Joining The Dots: USAID, Pop Culture, Idea Of ‘Cool’, And Ranveer Allahbadia

DOGE is exposing the Deep State’s dark purse. We need to uncover how those dollars silently waft into our collective consciousness to tear us...

15.02.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Did Winning Delhi Matter So Much For PM Modi And BJP?

Delhi provides the perfect topping for its performances in Haryana and Maharashtra and gives it great momentum for Bihar later this year

11.02.2025 30

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Opinion | PM Modi Hints He Will Keep Working Beyond 2029, Till He Walks Into History

06.02.2025 5

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