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Opinion | Trump-Zelensky Face-Off: Boys, Uninterrupted

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Opinion | Mo, Diversity, And The Indian Immigrant In The US

Opinion | Mo, Diversity, And The Indian Immigrant In The US
19.02.2025 4

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Opinion | Trump's Second Coming: When American Anxiety Met The Fist

20.01.2025 5

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Opinion | Are You 'Pretending' To Work? It's Not Entirely Your Fault

13.01.2025 10

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Blog | Of Smoking, 'Style', And New Year's Resolutions

(Warning: Smoking is injurious to health) It looks like Milan beat everyone to the New Year's resolutions this time. As the clock struck midnight...

08.01.2025 10

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Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy, Former MAGA Darling, Learns Something About Politics

Vivek Ramaswamy may just be the saviour Indians with an American Dream have been waiting for. Or is he the enfant terrible who's going to ruin it...

31.12.2024 30

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Opinion | Blake Lively To Gisele Pelicot, The Illusion That Is Women's Safety

What is the common thread joining the Bangalore car crash claiming five lives, Blake Lively's sexual harassment complaint against her It Ends With...

26.12.2024 3

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What the Pelicot rape case tells us

The Pelicot rape trial has reminded the world of the tenuousness of a woman’s sense of safety. Gisèle has done her bit. But where do we go from...

24.12.2024 3

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Opinion | The Fall Of Damascus And Lessons In Liberalism For Delhi

Damascus has fallen. Once again. One of the oldest cities in the world has fallen. To rise again from its rubble, heralding a new order. In its...

11.12.2024 3

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Opinion: High Time Men In Military Accepted Women As Equal

Time and again, a harsh but obvious truth asserts itself - men cannot stand women. The latest example is the outgoing Corps Commander (17 Corps) Lt...

01.12.2024 4

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Opinion | Delhi's Air Pollution Situation Is Like A Bad Marriage

We, the people of Delhi, are in a bad marriage with the city. This marriage is beyond redemption, but both parties dither in calling it quits....

22.11.2024 2

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Blog | How To Grieve During A Global Crisis? Leave It Untamed, Like Actor Sandhya Mridul

“My brother forced my pen to move.” That's what Sandhya Mridul, a Hindi cinema and TV artist, says about the motivation behind her debut book of...

15.11.2024 2

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Opinion | Why Did Kamala Harris Lose? Because Democrats Guilt-Tripped Americans

It's not misogyny that defeated Kamala Harris. There is a certain insincerity lurking behind this explanation for the decisive victory of the...

08.11.2024 2

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Opinion | Harris vs Trump: The Unbearable Absurdity Of US Presidential Polls

All of us can be forgiven for mistaking 2024 as the year of the longest-running live TV entertainment. Thankfully, one leg of it is over. As the...

06.11.2024 5

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Opinion | Rohit Bal And The Grandiosity Of Grief

“Irreparable loss,” the phrase that leapt out for this author from economist and author Bibek Debroy's last piece of public writing published...

02.11.2024 2

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Opinion | India And China: Let LEDs, Microchips Lead The Way

In the annals of history, few narratives illuminate the dynamics of international relations as vividly as trade. The East India Company's interest...

30.10.2024 3

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Opinion | India At BRICS And The Curious Case Of Iran

All eyes have been on Iran for more than a year. Naturally, the first BRICS summit with Tehran's membership is bound to breed speculation about...

24.10.2024 2

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Opinion | India-Canada Row: When Fiction Is As Important As Facts

"We're not so different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weakness in one another's systems. Don't you think it's time to...

17.10.2024 50

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Blog | Ratan Tata's Last Weekend, In Goa: Seeing The Universe In A Grain of Sand

"If it's good for Ratan Tata, it's good for us" was my saintly-strictly in the sense of being indifferent to extravaganza-husband's winning line...

10.10.2024 30

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Opinion | Jammu & Kashmir Shows The World Democracy Is Not An Optional Activity

"It's good these people are in jail," a fruit seller shared his frustration, keeping his shop open despite a lowered shutter in response to the...

09.10.2024 2

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Opinion | You Got An iPhone, Now Think Of 'Envy Imperialism'

Typing this essay on a MacBook Air, tethered to an iPhone Pro (not the latest model) for accessing the internet, reeks of hypocrisy. Yet, certain...

06.10.2024 3

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What P Diddy-Bieber history says about male sex abuse

The problem with sexual abuse, as suspected in the Diddy-Bieber case, is twofold — the impact and the perpetrator-victim dynamic

03.10.2024 3

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Opinion | New Delhi's Air Quality May Choke Its Geopolitical Influence

In an ongoing hearing, the Supreme Court of India has decried the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) for not serving its purpose. The...

30.09.2024 5

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Opinion | Why Netflix's Kaos Is The Perfect Primer On Today's Geopolitics

"You should have married me," the lover said ruefully.  "Then I'd be doing this with him." 'This' being a sweaty steamy rendezvous on a yacht.  It...

19.09.2024 4

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Opinion | Trump-Harris Debate: It's About Entertainment, Stupid

Votaries of the US presidential debate - including many of our senior politicians - may want to hold their horses. The first presidential debate...

12.09.2024 4

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Blog | 'Don't Do Drama': My Story Of Online Sexual Harassment Isn't Mine Alone

I'll be 39 in exactly ten days. I'm a mother of two daughters-21 and 15. I have all the privileges that you can count-caste, class, religion, skin...

10.09.2024 3

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Opinion | IC 814 Row: What's In A Name? Just A Reason To Outrage

(In light of the controversy over the Netflix series 'IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack', here is a view on the 1999 hijack and its aftermath. Click here...

04.09.2024 2

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Blog | Why Do You Think Your Dog Needs You? Because You're Selfish

"Could we really scan a dog's brain to figure out what it was thinking? Would we find proof that dogs love us?" In the prologue to his trailblazing...

28.08.2024 2

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Opinion | The Realism We Are Missing In Modi's Ukraine Trip

The Russia-Ukraine war started exactly two years ago. The very next day, on February 25, 2022, India abstained from voting on a draft resolution in...

24.08.2024 3

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Opinion | Trump, Musk, And The Importance Of 'Exaggeration' In Storytelling

"Why harp on the facts, it's the exaggerations that makes a tale interesting!" A favourite aunt once exclaimed when I tried to fact-check a funny...

16.08.2024 2

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Opinion | Vinesh Phogat, The Darned Woman Athlete Taking Our Breath Away

Some victories are sweeter than others, some defeats more bitter, whatever the arena be. But what about the cruelty of fate? How does one take...

08.08.2024 3

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Opinion | Sheikh Hasina: When The Hunted Is Also The Hunter

'In my beginning is my end.'  There is no situation in the world that cannot be explained through poetry in general, T.S. Eliot's in particular....

05.08.2024 2

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Opinion | India's Neglect Of Its Athletes Is Also An Olympic-Time Story

So what if our team turned up in an eyesore of a formal kit at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics? Our shaadi ceremonies are way grander...

29.07.2024 1

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Opinion | Hugs Aside, This Is How Much India And Russia Really Mean To Each Other

Everyone loves a good host. Everyone loves a powerful host. Everyone loves a host who gives guided tours. In this limited regard, the Prime...

12.07.2024 1

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