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Brazil’s test

Brazil’s test

President Lula da Silvas election to a fourth presidential term exposes Brazils central political dilemma: a clear electoral outcome in a deeply...

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Prestige schools

Prestige schools

Britain’s elites schools are turning to India, bringing celebrated names and centuries-old traditions into a market shaped by rising incomes and...

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Foreign Hand

Foreign Hand

When governments face dissent, blaming outsiders can be more convenient than confronting the grievances at home. India’s latest unrest has revived...

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Energy Leverage

Energy Leverage

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Jamnagar highlights an emerging reality in India-US relations: energy infrastructure has become a...

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Beyond the Hype

Beyond the Hype

Jio Platforms’ entry into the stock market marks a significant moment in the evolution of Indian capitalism. Built by Mukesh Ambani, the company has...

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Data Divide

Data Divide

India’s emergence as a supplier of human-generated data for artificial intelligence presents an economic opportunity, but also a familiar danger:...

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Illusion of peace

Illusion of peace

The pursuit of peace in Ukraine risks becoming an exercise in diplomatic theatre if the principal parties mistake the willingness to negotiate for a...

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Digital faultlines

Digital faultlines

The greatest danger in the digital age may not be the invention of new ways to attack computer systems, but the discovery of weaknesses that have...

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Human Cost

Human Cost

Immigration policy is an exercise of national sovereignty, but its consequences extend far beyond government offices and corporate hiring decisions....

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Bonds of dissent

Bonds of dissent

The detention of two leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), followed by their release after a week in custody, raises questions that extend...

25.10.2026 20

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Fear Returns

Fear Returns

The shooting attempt on actor Tiger Shroff has revived an uncomfortable question about Mumbai: can a city that symbolises India’s commercial and...

24.10.2026 20

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Festival Betrayed

Festival Betrayed

Nineteen deaths at a Durga Puja pandal have shattered an assumption that generations of Kolkatans took for granted: that the city’s greatest annual...

24.10.2026 20

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Himalayan Imperative

Himalayan Imperative

The Himalayas pose a stark test for India and China: can strategic rivals cooperate when inaction threatens lives, livelihoods and regional security?...

23.10.2026 10

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Ukraine Squeezed

Ukraine Squeezed

President Donald Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine into halting attacks on Russian oil refineries risks producing an outcome opposite to the stated...

23.10.2026 10

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Stabilising economies

Stabilising economies

The award of the 2026 economics Nobel to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford recognises a body of research that has transformed how central banks...

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Shared Stakes

Shared Stakes

Bangladesh’s engagement with China is not inherently a threat to India, nor should Dhaka be expected to subordinate its economic choices to New...

22.10.2026 10

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Coercive Peace

Coercive Peace

Pakistan’s attempt to tighten its grip on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa exposes a familiar contradiction in the country’s political order: the state invokes...

20.10.2026 20

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Water Politics

Water Politics

The meeting between Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay highlights a pressing challenge...

20.10.2026 20

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NH-148A

NH-148A

National Highway 148A, in its original form, connects Delhi to Gurgaon through what is known as the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road. It is one of a handful of...

19.10.2026 20

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Courts under test

Courts under test

A democracy’s freedoms depend not merely on constitutional guarantees, but on whether those guarantees can be enforced when the government finds...

19.10.2026 20

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Trump’s Test

Trump’s Test

The US midterm elections on November 3 will test whether President Donald Trump’s political dominance can survive the consequences of his own...

18.10.2026 20

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Women resist

Women resist

The growing prominence of women in Delhi’s protests signals more than another episode of student unrest or opposition mobilisation. It reflects a...

18.10.2026 20

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Factory Test

India’s manufacturing ambitions have survived successive disappointments. Now, stronger industrial growth and rising exports offer fresh grounds for...

17.10.2026 20

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Inflation’s Warning

The renewed rise in American inflation exposes the fragility of economic stability and threatens President Donald Trump’s promise to make life more...

17.10.2026 20

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Talent at Home

India takes understandable pride in the achievements of its diaspora. From Silicon Valley boardrooms to laboratories and universities, professionals...

16.10.2026 20

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Foreign Money

India’s foreign portfolio investment story is becoming less comfortable than the headline numbers suggest. The important issue is not simply that...

16.10.2026 20

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Maritime Peril

The Black Sea is becoming a test of how far a regional war can spread without drawing neighbouring states into direct confrontation. Repeated drone...

15.10.2026 20

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Behind barricades

A democracy is tested not when its institutions enjoy public confidence, but when citizens challenge them. The escalating confrontation in Delhi over...

15.10.2026 20

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Sweet and sour

India’s festive economy depends on more than consumer confidence. It also rests on the affordability of the ingredients, gifts and rituals through...

14.10.2026 20

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Open Skies

India’s emerging satellite internet market presents a test of whether the country can reconcile national security commercial competition and the...

14.10.2026 20

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Talent under siege

The Trump administration’s action against Microsoft and seven other technology companies exposes a fundamental contradiction in America’s economic...

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Dissent Detained

The response to the Cockroach Janta Party’s protests exposes a deeper democratic problem: when young people lose faith in institutions, suppressing...

13.10.2026 20

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Grey War

Europe is being forced to confront an uncomfortable reality: the next major security crisis may not begin with tanks crossing a border. It may begin...

12.10.2026 10

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Botched attempt

An execution is designed to leave no uncertainty. The state announces a death sentence, prepares a procedure intended to cause death, administers the...

12.10.2026 10

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Patekar’s legacy

Nana Patekar’s death marks the passing of an actor who never quite fitted the conventional idea of a Bollywood star. He was not built around...

11.10.2026 20

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A New Captain

Harmanpreet Kaur’s departure from the captaincy of India’s women’s cricket team is an awkward decision precisely because it comes at the wrong...

11.10.2026 20

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Growth Gap

India’s economy may be expanding at a pace that commands global attention, but its stock market is telling a less comfortable story. The divergence...

10.10.2026 30

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Digital Franchise

India’s electoral democracy is entering a new phase in which the most consequential decisions about voting may be made not at the polling station...

10.10.2026 30

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A New Window

The deepest significance of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine lies not simply in what Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg...

09.10.2026 30

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Cost of Stability

The Reserve Bank of India’s decision to raise the repo rate to 5.5 per cent marks more than a routine adjustment in the price of money. It signals a...

09.10.2026 20

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Drunken driving rules must be data-driven

India does not have a road safety problem. It has a road safety catastrophe. Every three minutes, someone dies on its roads. This is a country with...

09.10.2026 20

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Brazil’s choice

Brazil’s presidential election has entered its decisive phase with a result that says as much about the country’s political transformation as it...

08.10.2026 20

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Failing Monsoon

India’s 2026 monsoon should not be judged simply by the national rainfall deficit. The more consequential fact is that the monsoon has once again...

08.10.2026 30

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Diesel Warning

The global energy crisis has entered a revealing new phase. The G7’s decision to release up to 100 million barrels of oil and diesel from strategic...

07.10.2026 20

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Test of Trust

India’s Election Commission was created to ensure that political competition does not become a contest over who controls the machinery of the...

07.10.2026 20

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Police Power

The treatment of women journalists at a political protest is not a peripheral matter of crowd control. It goes to the heart of the relationship...

06.10.2026 30

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Forex pressure?

India’s foreign exchange reserves have crossed an important threshold ~ not because their absolute level is inadequate, but because the speed at...

06.10.2026 20

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Chilling Effect

Maharashtra’s new anti-conversion law raises a question considerably larger than whether the State should prevent people from being coerced into...

02.10.2026 30

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Journalism’s test

The crisis facing journalism is often described as a crisis of business, technology or public trust. It is all three. But beneath them lies a more...

02.10.2026 30

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Himalayas speak

Nepal has done something important at the United Nations: it has tried to turn a natural disaster into a political argument about the unequal costs of...

01.10.2026 30

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