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Opinion | How Not To Make A Dog’s Breakfast Of The Stray Issue: First-World Lessons

Opinion | How Not To Make A Dog’s Breakfast Of The Stray Issue: First-World Lessons

Stopping dogs from roaming the streets is not an act of cruelty, but of empathy. The most developed, disciplined, and considerate countries do it.

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Opinion | Why Congress Can Never Put RSS, Taliban-Muslim Brotherhood In Same Box

Opinion | Why Congress Can Never Put RSS, Taliban-Muslim Brotherhood In Same Box

In spite of 100 years of unsparing, often violent efforts of so-called secular forces, the RSS has got legitimised

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With Putin Dominating Alaska Summit, Trump Is Running Out Of Moves Against India

With Putin Dominating Alaska Summit, Trump Is Running Out Of Moves Against India

The India-US ties will survive Trump, but it will need unnecessary time and energy to rebuild

18.08.2025 10

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Opinion | PM Modi’s Speech Signals Clear Counteroffensive In Demographic War

The next elections—maybe up to 2029 and beyond—will be fought on demography, the biggest marker of Bharat’s destiny

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Opinion | Shibu Soren’s Broken Legacy: How 'Jamai Tolas' Now Pose Existential Threat To Tribals

Opinion | Shibu Soren’s Broken Legacy: How 'Jamai Tolas' Now Pose Existential Threat To Tribals

The illegal influx of Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims is wrecking Jharkhand’s demography, gobbling up the same tribal land that Soren once fought...

09.08.2025 10

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Opinion | Maulana Chhangur & The Kerala Story: When the Real Submits A Thousand Proofs For The Reel

Opinion | Maulana Chhangur & The Kerala Story: When the Real Submits A Thousand Proofs For The Reel

Even in the face of a million denials, there is no escape from the truth: the demographic war against Hindu-majority India has intensified

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Opinion | India Can Beat Trump Tantrums With Atal Doctrine: Stay Calm, Build Own Capability

In spite of being in a coalition government, Vajpayee went ahead with the nuclear tests in May 1998, knowing fully what was to come.

01.08.2025 10

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Opinion | Congress Bowled PM Modi A Full Toss With Debate On Operation Sindoor

The debate was a perfect foil for the BJP government to strut its foreign policy successes and show up Congress’s soft-on-terror image

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Opinion | How Assam Is Fighting Back In The 1,000-Year Demographic War Against India

Using a 1950 law, Assam has so far cleared more than 42,000 acres of encroached land and reportedly pushed back thousands of illegal Bangladesh and...

30.07.2025 10

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Opinion | As Second Longest Consecutive Serving PM, Modi Signals End Of Nehruvian India In 3 Simple Ways

Nehruvian socialism in many ways subsumed Leftist ideals, just as Modi’s welfare outreach blunts the claims and protestations of Nehruvian socialists.

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Opinion | Plane Tragedy Reminds Bangladesh Of A Friendly India, Failing Yunus Regime

Ordinary Bangladeshis are slowly beginning to see how, despite all the brickbats from across the border, Bharat calmly stands with a helping hand in...

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Opinion | NCERT Shows Up The Mughals As Leftist Whitewash Falls Off History Textbooks

Decolonisation of the mind and learning the whole truth about one’s past are as essential in nation-building as sunlight and water are to gardening

20.07.2025 10

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Opinion | SIR, Could We Have Voters’ List Reforms With Some ICE, Please?

Just cleaning voter lists is not enough. Since the process is making large-scale detection of illegals possible, it should be followed by detention...

17.07.2025 10

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Book By Paul Kapur, Trump’s South Asia Pick, Captures Pakistan’s Jihad Strategy & India’s Response

Kapur’s 2017 book 'Jihad as Grand Strategy' is more than an analysis of Pakistan’s use of jihad as state policy. It anticipates much of...

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Opinion | Renewed Attack On Yoga And Ayurveda Stems From Insecurity, Intolerance

The civilisational knowledge and wisdom of thousands of years that have healed generations cannot be simply mocked away

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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