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Opinion | Who Wants Peace, Anyway? On War And The People Who Fuel It
The war industry cannibalises all others, and there's no shortage of hypocrisy in today's global security discourse. Powerful states lament instability while fuelling it through arms sales and proxy wars.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Jun 30, 2025 16:38 pm IST
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Opinion | How Zohran Mamdani Has Given Indian-Americans An Identity Crisis
Suddenly, many Indians' urge to claim anyone even remotely Indian in terms of their genetic makeup for achieving anything on the global stage has turned into outright hate.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Jun 25, 2025 15:22 pm IST
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Opinion | Whose Friend Is The US Anyway?
As of 2025, many countries, big and small, view the US less as a protector and more like an unreliable patron - slow to act if at all, unsure of its commitments, often causing embarrassment, and vulnerable to distraction.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Jun 24, 2025 12:50 pm IST
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Opinion | Iran, Israel, And The Ghosts Of A Relationship Gone Bad
In a twisted way, Iran still seems to be helping Israel. In furthering Israel's narrative of being the victim. Iran, in turn, stands as isolated today as its arch enemy Iraq once was.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Jun 20, 2025 15:21 pm IST
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Opinion | Is This How India Will 'Dehyphenate' Itself From Pakistan?
Rather than setting the paradigm, India is seen as playing catch-up in its diplomatic oeuvre.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Jun 12, 2025 13:28 pm IST
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Opinion | Musk-Trump Saga is Not A Biblical Or Pop Culture Event. It's Dangerous
If the James Bond movies are to be trusted, your most vicious enemy happens to be a jilted lover or a close accomplice.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Jun 06, 2025 18:38 pm IST
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Opinion | What Quick (De)Escalation Between India-Pak Teaches Us About War And Peace
The wanton public wants war one moment and peace the next. The state ought to eschew the urge to base its decisions on this wantonness.
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Nishtha Gautam
- May 12, 2025 17:04 pm IST
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Opinion | Op Sindoor, India-Pak, And What Sahir Or Faiz Can Tell Us About Wars
When we forget about the wounds of war, we don't think twice before waging one. The poems of Kishwar Naheed, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, and many more offer a jolt to such public amnesia.
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Nishtha Gautam
- May 08, 2025 13:16 pm IST
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Opinion | Ground Zero, Pahalgam, And A Conundrum Of Pain In Kashmir
If Ground Zero succeeds in making even a single member of the audience revisit their presumptions and prejudices, as one of the characters does before the climax, it should be deemed a hit, despite the box office verdict.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Apr 25, 2025 16:24 pm IST
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Opinion: What Has JD Vance's India Visit Achieved?
Apart from the minor detail that the US is India's largest trading partner, there's this critical matter of matrimony.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Apr 22, 2025 15:00 pm IST
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Opinion | What Ambedkar's Raised Finger Is Really Trying To Tell You
Ambedkar's raised finger, though routinely vandalised in different parts of the country, keeps the hope alive against all hopes.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Apr 14, 2025 10:04 am IST
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Opinion | Why Is Trump Invoking JFK? Hint: Russia
Now that the Trump administration is avowedly in favour of peace with Russia, invoking JFK's memory works in their favour.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Mar 21, 2025 17:43 pm IST
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Opinion | Can India And China Ever Really 'Dance' Together?
China keeps insisting that India is not a significant security threat. Yet, reportedly, it has significantly amped up its surveillance capabilities over India.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Mar 10, 2025 17:04 pm IST
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Opinion | Mo, Diversity, And The Indian Immigrant In The US
If an alien were to gain insights into the immigrant situation currently playing out in the US, the Netflix show Mo would act as a good gateway. Except, it might lead the alien to believe that there are no Indian immigrants, legal or illegal, in US
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Nishtha Gautam
- Feb 19, 2025 15:57 pm IST
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Opinion | Trump's Second Coming: When American Anxiety Met The Fist
A casual chat with a healthcare aide working for one of the largest health service conglomerates in Pennsylvania reveals several of the anxieties that explain Trumps stellar comeback as the POTUS.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Jan 20, 2025 14:46 pm IST
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Opinion | Are You 'Pretending' To Work? It's Not Entirely Your Fault
Hiring people who appear to work or forcing people to appear to work are problems that are created by the heads of organisations, rarely by the hands.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Jan 13, 2025 14:38 pm IST
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Blog | Of Smoking, 'Style', And New Year's Resolutions
Headlines around the Milan smoking ban have underscored the paradoxical association of smoking with style.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Jan 08, 2025 14:05 pm IST
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Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy, Former MAGA Darling, Learns Something About Politics
Why is anyone surprised that Ramaswamy is facing racial slurs from his fellow MAGA supporters? The adage "nobody is free until everyone is" needs to be paid more heed to make sense of this mayhem.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Dec 31, 2024 13:11 pm IST
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Opinion | Blake Lively To Gisele Pelicot, The Illusion That Is Women's Safety
Womens lives are shattered by multiple metaphorical car crashes, and they mostly go unnoticed. If women demand safety, they are labelled as destructive, difficult, delusional or deranged, depending on what the flavour of the month is.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Dec 25, 2024 12:35 pm IST
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Opinion | The Fall Of Damascus And Lessons In Liberalism For Delhi
The undermining of liberal values by liberals themselves, the ascent of conservative forces, the politics of exclusion, we have seen it all.
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Nishtha Gautam
- Dec 11, 2024 12:20 pm IST
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