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Reshmi Dasgupta

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Opinion | Why Mamata Banerjee Behaved Badly With The President Of India

Opinion | Why Mamata Banerjee Behaved Badly With The President Of India

With a policy of non-cooperation set by the CM herself, it is not surprising that Droupadi Murmu was insulted in West Bengal and the event she graced...

08.03.2026 10

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Opinion | How INSV Kaundinya Is Reviving Memory

Opinion | How INSV Kaundinya Is Reviving Memory

By coming to life from images on ancient coins, carvings and murals, this stitched ship has become tangible proof of India’s long-sidelined maritime...

04.03.2026 10

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Opinion | Ex-Prince Andrew Arrest: Why Only Andy And Not Mandy?

There is something fishy about arresting Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor for ‘misconduct in public office’ but letting Lord Mandelson off the hook.

20.02.2026 40

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Opinion | How The Holy Ganga Forcibly Became Secular Hooghly

Bengal must restore the sanctity of the river by calling it once again by its traditional name

15.02.2026 20

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Opinion | Why The Epstein Files Don’t Matter To India

India came onto Epstein’s radar only after 2014, and even then his interest in India was hardly intense

09.02.2026 40

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Opinion | Why The Three Antique Bronzes Underline Western Complicity

Museums, dealers, galleries and collectors abroad used the Indian government’s previous slow pace and lack of records to ‘legitimise’ trafficked...

31.01.2026 9

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What's in a SIRname Anyway?

30.01.2026 8

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Opinion | Why Private Conservation Funding For Monuments Is A Public Need

Because ASI, running on shoestring government allocations simply cannot do the needful

29.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Why America Needs To Target Guns, Not People

For anyone living in a country like India where most police personnel—let alone civilians—do not carry arms, the inescapable conclusion is that...

28.01.2026 20

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View: Pollution and solution are collective matters

24.01.2026 20

The Economic Times

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Opinion | Why Tilak Is Once Again Part Of A Freedom Movement

Many schools in Britain allow hijabs; how many allow tilaks or even understand why they should be considered on par with other faith symbols?

23.01.2026 10

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Opinion | What’s The Truth Behind West Bengal’s Enormous Families?

Details of the list of ‘logical discrepancies’ flagged by the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Review promise noteworthy insights

22.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Why Abhishek Banerjee Is Always Right In Bengal

The TMC Lok Sabha member’s glaring historical blunder on sati has become a telling commentary on political hubris and the steady erosion of...

21.01.2026 10

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Opinion | Why Iran Can Never Be Home Again For Zoroastrians

Even if there is ever a secular regime there, the majority faith will remain Islam and chances of a grand revival of Zoroastrianism are thus remote

20.01.2026 50

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Leaving palates in a pickle: Lack of familiarity is often behind food discrimination

17.01.2026 10

The Economic Times

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It's all about (re)turning to alternatives: Move more, eat smart, drop the food myths

09.01.2026 10

The Economic Times

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Opinion | Why What Mahmud Ghazni Did 1,000 Years Ago Must Not Be Forgotten

His destruction of Somnath set off a millennium-long assault; that it stands proudly again is a testament to the quiet determination of the children...

08.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Why Mamdani Is Deliberately Talking Up Umar Khalid

Because the Nobel Peace Prize is the main qualification for ‘international’ candidates for top national political office

05.01.2026 30

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Indian air travel woes: Delays, cancellations & airport design flaws

26.12.2025 10

The Economic Times

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Opinion | Why Dhurandhar Has Really Alarmed Pakistan

Because it highlights deep divisions within the 'qaum' there and posits an Indian agent as the provocateur

17.12.2025 40

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Opinion | Why India Must Reiterate Its Vegetarian Legacy

For far too long India has been diffident and followed western norms of diplomatic dining

16.12.2025 30

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Trash & tourism are not symbiotic

12.12.2025 10

The Economic Times

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View: Is there cooperation in the air?

06.12.2025 10

The Economic Times

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Opinion | Why Abdul’s ‘Misguiding’ At Ellora Highlights A Bigger Issue

Inadequately-informed, inarticulate guides and sanguine visitors make for a double whammy of trouble and tension at monuments

30.11.2025 10

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The responsibility of remembrance

28.11.2025 10

The Economic Times

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Opinion | Why Has Iran’s Islamic Regime Resurrected A Zoroastrian Emperor?

One of the dangers of erasing history is that a Pandora’s box can be opened unwittingly

28.11.2025 10

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Bhooth-proof elections

24.11.2025 20

The Times of India

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Opinion | Lessons For Dynasts From The Tejashwi Yadav-Rohini Fallout

Good relations between brother-sister politicos hinge on the latter assuming the ‘trad’ lesser role; but that pact is disappearing

23.11.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Shourya Patil’s Suicide May Not Change Anything

The parallels to Rouvanjit Rawla’s suicide in 2010 in Kolkata are evident but all the accused teachers were exonerated by the court in 2012

23.11.2025 20

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Opinion | What Sara Sharif’s Death Portends For The UK

A state within a state is evolving there, building on its majority community’s guilt over the supposed rise of Islamophobia

19.11.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Prince William Must Desist From Any Earthshot Potshot At India

Even as the world’s third largest ‘polluter’, India is far behind China and the US, and Indians’ per capita emissions are really minuscule

14.11.2025 40

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Opinion | Is BBC Really Doing The World A Service?

The resignations and accusations suggest otherwise

12.11.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Harmanpreet’s Team Have Reclaimed India’s Lost Legacy

Because Indian women’s participation in sports and games from ancient times is more real than Leftist academics have posited for a long time

09.11.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Usha Vance Needs To Keep The Faith

As a pragmatic, political, Hindu spouse, she has all the tools to weather this storm

05.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Why Andrew’s Downfall Was Bound To Happen

Impoverished bluebloods and social climbing hucksters make a deadly combination

04.11.2025 10

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Cheers for that fine cuppa

31.10.2025 10

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Opinion | Why Henry VIII May Be Irked By Charles III’s Ecumenism

The first king dumped Catholicism and created the Church of England so that he could divorce and remarry; now the second may undo all that

28.10.2025 20

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Opinion | Why India Must Stop Tolerating White Supremacy In Academia

Indology has been dominated for far too long by non-Indians; it is time to reclaim it

25.10.2025 10

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Of contrived controversies & simulated ire

24.10.2025 10

The Economic Times

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Opinion | Why Prince Andrew's 'Punishment' Is Very Exemplary

He may never stand trial in a 'common' court but being divested of royal titles is a death-like penalty for a prince

21.10.2025 30

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Opinion | Why Just The Obvious Guys May Not Be Chinese Spies

The cases of Tellis in US and the two Christophers in UK prove that China’s tentacles reach even the most unlikely places

19.10.2025 20

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No good excuses for bad behaviour: A boy's bumptiousness at a TV game show highlighted where our society is going wrong

17.10.2025 7

The Economic Times

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Opinion | Why Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Was Meant To Be A Turning Point

The killer may not realise exactly how many equations were changed by his deed

24.09.2025 20

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Opinion | Why US Right-Wingers Should Thank Brigitte Macron

Because her defamation case could finally provide a definition of sex and gender, currently contested by transgender advocates

22.09.2025 10

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What good is bad language?

20.09.2025 10

The Economic Times

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Opinion | Will Britain Beat A Retreat As Multiculturalism Trumps Tradition?

In today’s toxic UK climate, how long before music is deemed too ‘white’, offensive to faith or culture, or branded as colonial oppression?

19.09.2025 10

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Opinion | Why Royal Allure Remains Britain’s Trump Card

The British have pulled out all the stops to give a right royal welcome to Donald Trump — arguably the most Anglophile US President in recent memory

17.09.2025 20

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Opinion | Why Charlie Kirk’s Murder In A University Was Not Surprising

Cancel culture, subversive indoctrination and Antifa activism on US campuses are bound to have tragic consequences

14.09.2025 10

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Opinion | Why ‘The Bengal Files’ Has The State’s Rulers In A Real Panic

Because Vivek Agnihotri has shone a harsh light on the past so that its glare also reveals similar monsters flourishing in the dark corners of the...

10.09.2025 20

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Opinion | How Mahua Is Taking A Cue From Mamata On Bangla Neologisms

West Bengal’s Chief Minister is no longer the only one meaningfully contributing to the advancement of Bangla; hopefully, Moitra’s head will not...

05.09.2025 20

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