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Opinion | Bondi Bloodbath: Is Islamist Hate Whitewashed?

Opinion | Bondi Bloodbath: Is Islamist Hate Whitewashed?

This whitewashing emboldens radicals who read denial as weakness

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Opinion: Dhurandhar Exposes Not Just Pakistan, But Left-Lib Double Standards

Opinion: Dhurandhar Exposes Not Just Pakistan, But Left-Lib Double Standards

In a truly liberal country, isn’t it hypocritical to chain creativity to a politically convenient correctness?

13.12.2025 10

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Opinion | The $67-Billion Vote Of Confidence: Why World’s Big Tech Is Betting Its Future On India

Opinion | The $67-Billion Vote Of Confidence: Why World’s Big Tech Is Betting Its Future On India

India is not replacing China as the world’s manufacturing base. But in the digital economy, India is emerging as the main alternative

11.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Deepam Row: Is Opposition Impeaching ‘Justice’ For Hindus?

Opinion | Deepam Row: Is Opposition Impeaching ‘Justice’ For Hindus?

An impeachment notice against a sitting High Court judge is designed to have a chilling effect on the judiciary

10.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Restore 'Vande Mataram': A National Song Should Not Be Half Sung

Opinion | Restore 'Vande Mataram': A National Song Should Not Be Half Sung

A national song by its very definition is meant to evoke patriotic fervour. And 'Vande Mataram', which literally translates to 'Hail...

09.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Aviation Emergency: IndiGo Gets Its Exemption, Bharat Gets Betrayed

Opinion | Aviation Emergency: IndiGo Gets Its Exemption, Bharat Gets Betrayed

Citizens of Bharat deserve better than a system where the watchdog and the dominant airline act in concert to lower passenger safety, not raise it

06.12.2025 20

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Opinion | The Modi-Putin Meeting Is The Message: Western Paternalism Is On Notice

Opinion | The Modi-Putin Meeting Is The Message: Western Paternalism Is On Notice

At a time when global politics is once again being pushed into rigid blocs, India and Russia will hope to reaffirm their long-held belief: strategic...

05.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Digital Racism: Not The First Time That NDA's Desi App Faces Attack Foreign Apps Rarely Do

The opposition and some cyber experts are convinced that Narendra Modi-led NDA is also going to use Sanchar Saathi to keep track of citizens and...

03.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Eulogising Hidma At India Gate: A Warning From The Campus Frontlines

The site of the eulogy to Maoist terrorist Hidma by some university students was within touching distance of the iconic Amar Jawan Jyoti, which is a...

25.11.2025 30

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Opinion | The Debate Has Ended: Terror Has An Ideology And Umar Nabi Has Self-Identified

The question is, does the political executive have the will to empower the security agencies to devise fixes that can match the threat?

19.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Bihar TsuNaMo: Why Brand Modi Bucks The Global Anti-Incumbency Trend

Brand Modi appears to have transcended conventional identity fault lines to connect with disparate audiences

15.11.2025 10

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Opinion | 10/11 Delhi Attack: Why Pakistan’s Deep State No Longer Fears India’s Deterrence

Pakistan’s military establishment may have misread India’s restraint as weakness rather than strategic calibration

12.11.2025 10

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Opinion: Terror Has A Religion, ‘White Collar Jihad’ Tests Limits Of Political Correctness

Investigations revealed that these radicalised doctors were in contact with foreign handlers operating from Pakistan and other countries

11.11.2025 30

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Opinion | NYC For Mamdani: Why There’s No Shame If All Indians Aren’t Cheering For Him

While Mamdani may have succeeded in energising and appeasing New York’s sizeable Muslim electorate, portions of the Hindu diaspora feel he does not...

06.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Trump Drops Pak N-Test Bomb. Time India Alters N-Posture?

The claim has caused jaws to drop across the world and came in response to a question on why Donald Trump wants the United States to resume nuclear...

04.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Anthem Of Discord: In Row Over 'Amar Sonar Bangla', One Side's Pride Is Another's Prejudice?

For all its talk of tolerance, the Congress in Assam has taken the side of Bengali speakers

31.10.2025 20

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Opinion | Age Of Consent: Why 16 Is Still Too Young

It may be true that some 16- to 18-year-olds possess the maturity to decide when, where, and with whom they want to have sex. But the exception...

28.10.2025 30

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Opinion | Even Islam Can’t Undo What Pakistan Has Brought Upon Itself

If Pakistan’s rulers still believe faith alone can hold the nation together, they are mistaking dogma for nationhood

14.10.2025 10

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Opinion | 5 Reasons Why India Is Right To Change Its Mind About Taliban

Some have already begun lashing out at the Modi government for its dalliance with the Taliban

11.10.2025 10

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Opinion | Statue, Faith, And A Shoe: Has Hindu Patience Become A Burden?

The shoe-throwing incident may be the first indication that prolonged patience is being severely tested

08.10.2025 20

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Opinion | The US-Pakistan Tango Is A Reset That Has Consequences For India

Since the Cold War, the US-Pakistan relationship has always tilted in Washington's favour but never without consequences for India

07.10.2025 20

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Opinion | India Bashing Peaks In America: Not Desi Diaspora’s Duty To Speak Up?

The Indian-American community can look across to the Jewish-American community, which is highly organised politically

04.10.2025 20

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Opinion | I Love Muhammad Vs Jai Shri Ram: The Chronicle of A False Equivalence

On the surface, both slogans are religious incantations. Yet, the two are fundamentally different in origin, history, and philosophical underpinning

02.10.2025 10

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Opinion | Don’t Mistake India-Pakistan Sport For Virtue: It’s War By Other Means

The Indian team captain’s decision to not shake his counterpart’s hand in Dubai is very much in keeping with the tradition of using cricket to...

30.09.2025 10

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Opinion | ‘I Love Muhammad’ Marches & The Question Of Weaponising Piety

Those who are today citing the Constitution in defence of the parade participants are the very people who objected to mobilisation marches under the...

26.09.2025 10

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Opinion | When Silence Becomes Betrayal: Tharoor’s Call To The US Desi Diaspora

Tharoor’s invocation will only make an impression if the Indian diaspora still feels obliged to consider itself Indian.

25.09.2025 40

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Opinion | The Question Of Palestine & India’s Self-Interest

Is recognising Palestine as a state still in India’s national interest? The facts suggest otherwise

24.09.2025 10

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Opinion | Selectively Secular Gaze Blinds CJI Gavai’s Justice?

The entire post-independence project has focussed on somehow taking the ‘Hindu out of the Indian’

19.09.2025 20

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Opinion: Do UK’s Nativist Rallies Pose A Worrying Threat To Indian Migrants?

Concerns over immigration, ignored for too long, have reached a peak

17.09.2025 10

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Opinion: Handshake Snub, A Post Dedicating Win to Bharat’s Armed Forces Can’t Whitewash BCCI’s Sin

The India-Pakistan rivalry drives viewership. Viewership guarantees TV ad revenues: the real money-spinner.

16.09.2025 10

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Opinion: Not A Revolution, Mobocracy Ousted Oli-garchy In Nepal

It’s being said that the eruption in Nepal was a spontaneous coming together of long-felt resentments.

11.09.2025 10

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Opinion: A ‘Cathay-logue’ For Posterity

The question is whether Tianjin is the exception that proves the rule

08.09.2025 10

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Opinion: Trump’s Got It Wrong, Discovering Oil Will Be The Ruin Of Pakistan

Far from a lifeline, oil as a primary resource could push the state closer to the brink of implosion

21.08.2025 10

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Opinion | The Selective Amnesia On Partition

Does the Left shun Partition talk because it shatters the 'both sides equally guilty' myth?

15.08.2025 20

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Opinion | Human Rights Vs Dog Rights: Activist Ire Over SC Order Missing The Point?

Far too many are mauled by packs of prowling dogs on the capital’s streets. Most of the victims are toddlers and the aged who can’t look out for...

13.08.2025 10

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Opinion | Has Trump's Tariff Tyranny Made The Case For BRICS Stronger?

Such non-West platforms offer India diplomatic flexibility and, with that, elbow room in trade talks with America

08.08.2025 20

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Opinion | Let Trump Have It, The Nobel Has Lost Its Nobility Long Back

The question that we need to engage with is not whether US President Donald Trump will win, but how the once-coveted Nobel Peace Prize is now reduced...

05.08.2025 8

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Opinion | Malegaon Verdict Decimates A Narrative Project To Stigmatise Sanatan

With the exoneration of Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Purohit, and five others in the Malegaon blast case, the myth of “Hindu terror” lies dead and buried.

01.08.2025 10

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Opinion | ‘Call Trump A Liar’: Why PM Modi Has Done Well By Ignoring Rahul’s Dare

To call upon Prime Minister Modi to publicly label the head of a partner nation—a key strategic ally—as a liar is shallow, inflammatory, and...

31.07.2025 50

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Opinion | Shukla’s Liftoff Renews India’s Once Self-Imposed Moratorium On Thinking Big

Nations that stop innovating, regenerating, and reimagining themselves fade into history. This is true for even civilisations

26.06.2025 10

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Opinion: India Has Got The Balance Right In West Asia

In the Israel-Iran fight to the brink of cataclysm, neutrality is not a byword for indecisiveness

24.06.2025 20

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Opinion | What's Behind The MELODI Meme Fest?

When two leaders with a fawning fan following like PM Modi and PM Meloni meet, they not only immediately light up the formal media sphere but also the...

20.06.2025 10

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Air India Plane Crash: Is Boeing The New Union Carbide? | Opinion

The essay compares Boeing to Union Carbide, citing corporate negligence and impunity, drawing parallels between Boeing's 787 Dreamliner crash in...

17.06.2025 20

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Opinion | Loss Angeles! How A Crazed Wokeism Connects America And India

From Delhi to DC, the Left now views illegal immigration as a moral cudgel to beat down ideological opponents and snatch political turf

11.06.2025 10

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Opinion | Beating Retreat Resumes: Let’s Stop Normalising Pakistan’s Terror Army

By reviving this pageant of synchronised stomping, we’re not projecting power, but we’re performing a dangerous dance of denial

21.05.2025 10

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OPINION | The Indo-Pak 'Understanding' Is An Undeclared Indian Win

Pakistan now understands that any future reliance on terrorism will invite a full-spectrum declaration of war from India.

12.05.2025 10

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Opinion | Operation Sindoor: Modi Rewrites The Rules Of Deterrence

Operation Sindoor shows retaliation need not always be static; that it can be agile, pre-emptive, assertive yet contained

09.05.2025 9

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Opinion | Post-Pahalgam: The Pakistan-Turkey Tango & India’s Unnoticed Strategic Play To Outflank Both

New Delhi’s latest tactical gambit will help outflank Pakistan — and by extension, even blunt the emerging Pakistan–Turkey defence axis

29.04.2025 20

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Opinion | A Short History Of What Really Ails Kashmir And Why The NDA Is Going Wrong

It is now clear that development is not the path to deradicalisation

24.04.2025 8

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Reality Check: India’s Ties With Saudi Arabia Will Ever Only Be Based On Conditional Trust. But That’s Okay

The fact is that Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, may be reliable partners in economic and technological spheres, but as geopolitical allies,...

23.04.2025 20

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