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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: After Ukraine, imperialism is now the norm

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BJP's Delhi challenge and the Capital's future

BJP's Delhi challenge and the Capital's future
20.02.2025 4

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BJP's Delhi challenge and the Capital's future

Perhaps the starting point for thinking about governance is to not begin with a list of schemes, but the contradictions that Delhi must manage.

20.02.2025 8

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Trump wants to show the world who is boss

06.02.2025 10

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Bhanu Mehta writes: Trump wants to show the world who is boss

05.02.2025 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: India’s delusion of relevance

01.02.2025 50

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India's growth slowdown is a signal of declining confidence in government

14.01.2025 8

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Express view on inflation data: Slim pickings for the RBI

14.01.2025 7

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Express view on 2024, the world’s hottest year: Be on alert

14.01.2025 8

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The Third edit: Your serve, Australian Open

14.01.2025 7

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India's growth slowdown is a signal of declining confidence in government

14.01.2025 10

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PB Mehta writes: Five vibes — in politics, economics and creativity — that will shape 2025

These are not predictions; it would be presumptuous to claim omniscience or even foresight. But here are five trends more in the realm of how the...

01.01.2025 4

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Express View: The new year needs a new political imagination

India's 2024 verdict told both Government and Opposition to reset, rethink. Hopefully, that will happen in 2025.

01.01.2025 4

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Express View on ISRO’s SpaDeX mission: A tryst in space

SpaDeX's success will place India in an elite group of nations with space docking capacity, which currently includes only the US, Russia and China.

01.01.2025 4

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The Third Edit: In 2025, self-improvement beyond Ozempic and AI

Technology and its bros may promise placid perfection. But people must make their own New Year resolutions

01.01.2025 3

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The prime minister who read the spirit of the age better than anyone

Manmohan Singh secured developmental space for India and positioned India brilliantly. It is capital that we are still living off.

27.12.2024 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Manmohan Singh was an ideal Nehruvian progressive

Manmohan Singh secured developmental space for India and positioned India brilliantly. It is capital that we are still living off.

27.12.2024 20

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The Third edit: Just Chill

Chilling can be hard work, as the creator of the Chill Guy meme has recently demonstrated

04.12.2024 3

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In a deep ideological sense, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh are once again joined at the hip

Ironically, in a deep ideological sense, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh are once again joined at the hip

03.12.2024 30

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DY Chandrachud personified this age in which civil political rights are acts of personal beneficence

Supreme Court justices demitting office are often subject to a legal scorecard. Assessments go through their rulings and catalogue the good, the...

12.11.2024 30

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In Trump, stronger and bigger, America has chosen The Great Disruption. Brace for the ride

The American electorate has, decisively, chosen to trust their destiny in the hands of Donald Trump. From being written off after January 6, 2020,...

06.11.2024 8

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With both Congress and BJP, Bibek Debroy managed to remain his own person

When Bibek Debroy resigned from the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies and PHDCCI, the Centre for Policy Research smelled an...

02.11.2024 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Haryana shows BJP's slide is overstated. In J-K, National Conference's resilience wins

Haryana is a small state. But the BJP’s historic victory, for a third term, has significant consequences nationally. For one thing, this election is...

09.10.2024 6

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Suffering unleashed by Israel in Gaza, Lebanon is made possible by complicity of Great Powers, including India

The international system’s licence to Israel to act with impunity in Gaza, and now Lebanon, will come back to haunt it. Israel has a right to...

26.09.2024 5

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Kolkata doctor’s murder: The unfreedom of being a woman

The rape and murder of a young doctor who was working at Kolkata’s R G Kar Hospital, on August 9, overshadowed this Independence Day. Several...

21.08.2024 30

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Kolkata rape and murder case: Why it’s not enough to hold protests and candle-light vigils

August 14 was a long night. A night of protests, marches, of women demanding “freedom” as they ushered in Independence Day. Thousands of them —-...

21.08.2024 7

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Kolkata doctor’s death reminds us, the personal is still political

India is once again raging against a brutal rape and murder, this time of a 31-year-old PG resident doctor in Kolkata. Protests have erupted in...

21.08.2024 20

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It stands out for being a beacon of nuclear stability, even as the country's neighbours are indulging in behaviour that encourages an arms race

Within 15 months of its nuclear tests – Pokhran II — India was ready with a draft nuclear doctrine. On August 17, 1999, K Subrahmanyam, convenor of...

20.08.2024 3

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Bangladesh is unique in degree to which students retain the aura of legitimacy in challenging authoritarianism

07.08.2024 2

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A public culture where invocation of caste becomes a substitute for serious thinking will not serve the cause of social justice or healthy institutions

It is an obvious fact that caste is still the oppressive social reality of India. Despite far-reaching changes in our economy, politics and...

31.07.2024 20

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Focus on his persona is obscuring the fact that he is undercutting Democrats on their own terms

The horrific attempt to assassinate Donald Trump will turbocharge the polarisation of American politics. The security lapses are already grist for...

18.07.2024 4

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