Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | Nitish Kumar, And The Great Bihar Promise That Never Came
Nitish Kumar had the chance to transform Bihar. He had built enough political equity and developed administrative chops to bring about real change. Yet, he did not.
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Opinion | How America Is Quietly Profiting Off The Oil Chaos In Gulf
In 2008, the high oil prices had helped kickstart the shale oil industry in the US. Something similar may be happening now.
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Opinion | The Paradox Of India's 'YOLO' Consumer
The higher weightage for personal care, transport and intoxicants draws the picture of a consumer with a YOLO (you-only-live-once) approach.
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Opinion | Bitumen: A Crude Item's Curious Link To Trump's Venezuela Strike - And India
What China stands to lose after Trump's Venezuela blitz, India may soon be building at home.
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Opinion | A Complex Problem For BJP: Constitution vs Constitution
The BJP's own constitution, rooted in its basic philosophy - Integral Humanism - conflicts with the country's Constitution. And it is not about the differences over the Preamble.
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Opinion | Who Moved My Tech?
The business of technology has rewired the very logic of market behaviour, rewarding first movers and creation of dependencies more than even revenue and returns.
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Opinion | Trump Tariffs May Have An Unlikely Gainer In India - RSS. Here's How
The American onslaught on Indian exports and workers has provided the Modi administration an off-ramp to align closer to the RSS swadeshi ideology and perhaps bridge the widest and oldest rift between the RSS and its political arm.
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Opinion | RSS At 100: Contradictions Of Imagination
Bhagwat said that except for certain core tenets, everything in the RSS is open to change. That flexibility will be useful for the RSS leadership, which has its job cut out as it tries to steer the ship into open international waters.
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Opinion | Who Is Scott Bessent - Tariff Hawk, Yen Man, And India's New Headache?
Recently, Bessent told Europe that it is not doing its part because it is yet to join the US in imposing secondary tariffs on India. "It's put up or shut up time," he told Europe.
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Opinion | What Recent Mumbai Flooding Should Teach Us About Climate
Extreme weather events have become more frequent across the world and barely anyone is spared. While Mumbai was dealing with a deluge, a glacier collapsed in Switzerland, dumping mud and ice into a valley and burying the village of Blatten.
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Opinion | Musk Is Out Of DOGE, But Not Without Doing What He Had To
Musk was the battering ram that cracked open Washington for the privateers from the Valley. That job is complete.
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Opinion | Trump Just Gave The World A Wartime Demo Of The 'Art Of The Deal'
Trump has demonstrated in the past two weeks that he will court anyone willing to give him a deal, even arch rivals and a designated terrorist who spent five years in a US-run jail.
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Opinion | There Is A 'Third' Player In The India-Pakistan Conflict
In an interview with Karan Thapar, former editor and part-time politician Najam Sethi said the issue was no more about Pakistan and India. There is a third player, China, which will go to great lengths to protect Pakistan's interests.
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Opinion | Piyush Goyal's Deep Tech 'FOMO' Is Not Unique
The Indian minister wants entrepreneurs to join the wave of nationalism sweeping through the world, across China, Europe, and America.
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Opinion | Are We Seeing The First Signs Of A Musk-Trump Rift?
After a whirlwind seven weeks, during which Trump has managed to wreck relationships and destabilise long-standing institutions, the stock-taking might have begun.
