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The Indo-Pak cricket wars... are non-existent

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Won’t be a party despite Trump–Modi bonhomie

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Talk ‘naari shakti’ and make them voiceless ciphers

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Delhi riots: A post-mortem after five years

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Has India played into China’s hands?

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Why GDP is a perverse index of wellbeing

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What’s the tearing hurry to amend the Waqf Act?

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How Rajdeep Sardesai foretells PM Modi’s future

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10.11.2024 3

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PGV takes the plunge

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09.11.2024 10

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Time to pull out that saffron rag again

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The moral hazard of WhatsApp groups

There are more than 532 million WhatsApp users in India (July 2022 figures), which is 40 per cent of the population. Most of them belong to some...

09.11.2024 7

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Original East India Co. wound up; new monopolists in its place: Rahul Gandhi

The original East India Company wound up over 150 years ago but the raw fear it then generated is back, with a new breed of monopolists having...

06.11.2024 3

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Does India at the UN even have a voice worth hearing?

The United Nations Security Council has 15 members: 5 permanent and 10 elected. India has been a non-permanent member of the UNSC eight times, its...

03.11.2024 2

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When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!

The first rule of excavation is that when you find yourself in a hole, you should stop digging. It appears, however, that our venerable chief...

02.11.2024 3

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Communal dog whistles spike ahead of state polls in November

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27.10.2024 3

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Reservation as an attack on ‘merit’ (or why India lags behind)

Let’s discuss this thing called ‘merit’. The British middle class is 60 per cent of the population. The working class, the set of people...

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Harris or Trump: Still anybody’s guess

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Decoding the India-China patrolling arrangement: A beginning, no breakthrough

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Have our courts upheld our right to protest?

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A matter of national security...says who?

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Can we save the Taj Mahal?

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Even the ‘balance of terror’ is now failing

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Few takers for India’s ‘rogue RAW agent’ theory

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Costly adventurism on foreign soil

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Rajasthan: Puppet on a chain

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Is Jammu-Kashmir truly safer than it used to be?

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When will policemen who ‘framed’ Prof Saibaba be punished?

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Should the BJP thank the RSS for Haryana?

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Who’s afraid of an election audit?

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Olympic Games 2036: The surreal reality of India’s bid

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Strategic neutrality is our best bet

As tensions rise between Israel and Iran, the Middle East is once again at the precipice of a wider conflict. For India, this escalating...

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The new censorship: Books published abroad unwelcome in India?

Very few Indians read books. Even fewer read books published abroad. A handful of Indian scholars are requested by international publishers to...

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