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Opinion | China, Now Trump: Pakistan And The Art Of Somehow Finding Patrons
Pakistan has successfully lobbied Western capitals into believing in its indispensability in the regional strategic landscape. The US continues to buy this narrative for various reasons, not discounting the naivete among them.
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Opinion | Pakistan Is Fast Becoming A Security Burden For China ... But Are We Suprised?
A Chinese official's latest statement should be seen as underlining Beijing's genuinely waning patience with Pakistan's perceived security inadequacies, and not just as diplomatic rhetoric.
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Opinion | 429 Dog Bite Cases A Day, In One Hospital Alone: How Did Delhi Reach Here?
At last count (2022-23), the capital's stray dog population was around 10 lakh. According to one newspaper report, Safdarjung Hospital has already registered 91,009 cases of dog bites so far this year.
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Opinion | Terror Accused To MP To Acquittal: Behind The Fall And Rise Of Pragya Thakur
"Blessing in disguise" and "opportunity in adversity" are phrases that have proven true for Pragya Singh, the saffron-clad woman from Madhya Pradesh, whom her followers address as a sadhvi.
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Opinion | 'TACO' Routine, And Other Explanations For Trump's Great India Meltdown
Trump had already pushed the initial deadline for the tariffs from July to August, and another extension would further entrench the belief in the 'TACO' - 'Trump Always Chickens Out' - theory.
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Opinion | A Rude Awakening For India: Navigating The Trumpian Tempest - By Shashi Tharoor
To simply buckle under US pressure would be a profound miscalculation for India, yielding not just economic ground but strategic dignity.
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Opinion | Trump Tariffs: Diplomacy Is Dead. Long Live Social Media Theatrics
Trump's playbook is vintage. He first extends his hand as a friend, then strikes with the force of a bully. His tariffs are not about the principle of fairness. They are a blunt instrument wielded for selfish reasons, for dominance and spectacle.
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Silence Is Violence: Speak Up and Act to Stop Child Trafficking
Human trafficking is the second-largest crime in the world. It generates $150 billion a year, according to global estimates
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Opinion | All The Ways Epstein Continues To Haunt Donald Trump
No matter how far President Trump flies - whether to Mar-a-Lago, Manhattan or the manicured golf greens of Scotland (from where he returned on Tuesday) - the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein refuses to part with him.
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Opinion | Trump Tariffs: The West Botched Up Russia ... And Now Wants India To Foot The Bill
The West has grudgingly recognised its inability to persuade India not to buy Russian oil. However, anti-Russian lobbies continue to apply pressure on New Delhi, seeing that their goal of imposing a strategic defeat on Russia has proved illusory.
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Blog | Instagram Friends, Then Humiliation: On The Tragic Death Of Two School Students In Hyderabad
The deaths by suicide of two young Class X students in Hyderabad, who studied in the same school, within five days of each other, is a stark example of precisely that world.
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Opinion | How Cholas Laid The Groundwork For Microlocal Governance In Southeast Asia
Chola models of governance played a significant role in opening up a participatory democratic structure within local contexts.
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Excerpt | Revolver That Was Silent For 21 Years: Life Of 'Encounter Specialist' Daya Nayak
Daya Nayak, an encounter specialist in the Mumbai Police, has not fired a single shot from his revolver in the last 21 years. He last used it in 2004 to kill an alleged gangster in Malad.
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Opinion | Counter View: A Clarification On Iran's Strategic Path And Historical Resolve
Iran always welcomed negotiation, provided to be fair and equal and its rights to be respected, and no nation should be expected to trade sovereignty for survival.
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Opinion | Lunch, Now A State Award: What's With The Growing Pakistan-US Lovefest?
After years of being ignored publicly by recent American administrations, the turnaround in established policy is baffling. What gives?
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Opinion | How Many Dead Babies Does A War Need?
Given New Delhi's historical support for Palestine, its supposed 'neutrality' today in the face of death, starvation, and genocide, citing a strategic relationship with Israel, is incongruous.
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Opinion | The Draw That Hurt More Than Defeat - Ask Ben Stokes
There is a winner in this contest; there is that last man standing; someone did indeed have the last laugh. If you are fighting for survival, that is the kind of cut that you want to inflict. And that is what Team India did at Old Trafford.
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Opinion | The 'Real' Bengali: On Migrant Politics In Bengal And Assam
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has exhorted her party members to continue the "movement" against the detention of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in other states. But will that be enough to bring in votes?
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Blog | Saiyaara, And The Taming Of The Tortured-Male-Rockstar
Mohit Suri's film flips the script, in that it allows the girl to bypass conventions and extract an Aditya Chopra hero, prone to seeing the divine in the person he loves, from Sandeep Reddy Vanga's universe of God-complexed lovers.
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Opinion | Trade Deals vs WTO: Is Trump Hastening The World Trade Organization's Demise?
The current Trump tariffs may not be mimicking the pre-WWII period, but they are certainly reminiscent of that.
