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Opinion | Michel Danino: The Quiet Giant Of Our Time

Opinion | Michel Danino: The Quiet Giant Of Our Time

Danino has created a substantial and qualitative scholarly legacy in his own lifetime and continues quietly on his chosen path away from public glare,...

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Opinion | Rajaji Utsav And The Forgotten Revolt Against Nehru

Opinion | Rajaji Utsav And The Forgotten Revolt Against Nehru

Rajaji Utsav has reopened an old debate about Chakravarthy Rajagopalachari’s legacy and the political order that emerged under Jawaharlal Nehru...

06.03.2026 20

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Opinion | Rahul Gandhi Waving General Naravane's Book Is Part Of An Old Script

To hear him hurl allegations at the armed forces or brand his colleagues as traitors is to witness a very old game being played with very new, and...

13.02.2026 10

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Opinion | AR Rahman’s Victim Card, Clarification And The Backlash

In light of AR Rahman’s mask falling off, one waits to see whether the makers of the upcoming Ramayan will rethink their decision of retaining him...

21.01.2026 20

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Opinion | When Acharya Kavindra Took The Battle To Shah Jahan

Acharya Kavindra Saraswati Vidyanidhi, 17th-century Benares’s foremost Pandit, fearlessly challenged Shah Jahan’s religious tyranny, forcing the...

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Opinion | How ‘Dhurandhar’ Has Exposed India’s Critics And Pakistan’s Truth

‘Dhurandhar’ is also the first Indian movie that shows Pakistan as an Islamic theocratic state masquerading as a democracy

16.12.2025 10

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Opinion | Jizya Under Shah Jahan And The Pious Service Of Kavindra

Apart from the notable exception of Akbar, every Sultan and Nawab levied Jizya

11.12.2025 9

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Opinion | Siddaramaiah Vs Shivakumar: Congress Meltdown In Karnataka Is A Repeat Of Its Dark History

In the end, no matter who wins in this disgusting political paralysis, the assured losers are the people of Karnataka

27.11.2025 10

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Opinion | Sanatana Surge In South: Tamil Nadu’s Quiet Revolt Against Dravidianism

The groundswell that the Atti Varadaraja festival attracted was, in a way, a signal event that portended this resurgence

03.11.2025 20

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Opinion | Tamil Nadu, Dravidian Cult And The Role Of Missionaries

Tamil Nadu is a survivor of two cultural holocausts, both of which are intertwined

19.10.2025 10

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Opinion | The Idli On Your Plate: How An Obscure Food Became A Global Name

Idli has today become one of the greatest weapons in the arsenal of India’s soft power

08.09.2025 20

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Opinion | The Idli On Your Plate: Vedic Origins, Global Exploits

Even a century ago, Idli was a dish largely confined to the Tamil-speaking regions. This is rather intriguing given the fact that the Idli’s origins...

11.08.2025 10

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Opinion | Karna: The Evil Counsel Of A Jealous Master

Karna's disgraceful conduct on countless occasions is the earliest and perhaps the perfect case study in the theory and practice of Communism

14.07.2025 10

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Opinion | How Karna Consciously Chose Evil

The subliminal message that the origins of the Duryodhana-Karna friendship gives us is clear: Duryodhana recruited Karna but did not befriend him

25.05.2025 20

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Opinion | Karna And Duryodhana: Much Ado About A Phoney Friendship

If the claim is that the Duryodhana-Karna relationship is a paragon of true friendship, the truth is that it was anything but friendship.

13.04.2025 10

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Opinion | Bureaucracy In Ancient India And Now: Relearning From The Past

Perhaps we wait in vain for the day when the long-overdue reform of our bureaucracy will finally become a reality —one that incorporates...

11.02.2025 10

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