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Opinion | What Are India's Options As Bangladesh Erupts - Again?
Bangladesh must demonstrate - through actions rather than assurances - that it intends to preserve its relationship with India and uphold regional stability.
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Opinion | The 'SHANTI' Bill Is A Radioactive Gamble With India's Future
The Bill shields foreign suppliers from being sued. It blocks citizens from the courts. It looks like a law written by the nuclear lobby, for the nuclear lobby.
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Opinion | Good vs Evil: Will Vijay's Tamil Nadu Election Pitch Succeed?
By framing the upcoming election as a battle between good and evil, Vijay is deliberately reviving memories of the Jayalalithaa-Karunanidhi rivalry - an intense, deeply personal feud that defined Tamil Nadu politics until they died.
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Opinion | After Bondi Beach Attack, Some Hard Questions For The Muslim World
The Muslim ummah needs to confront the anger, denial and victimhood narratives that create the environment in which extremists begin to believe their violence is righteous.
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Opinion | What Vijay's First Rally In Tamil Nadu Post-Karur Stampede Really Means
Mission Erode was bulk-order political messaging, aided suitably by geography.
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Opinion | India's Aviation Model Is Cracking Under Its Own Weight
When airlines strain against duty hour limits, when safety oversight suffers from understaffing, when passenger protection exists only on paper, the aviation system functions dangerously, accumulating risks that eventually manifest as crises.
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Blog | "It Was A Shell From My Tank": When A Father Met The Pak Soldier Who Killed His Son
"He stood like a rock before our Patton tanks," Brigadier Naser (retd) told Madan Lal Khetarpal, almost three decades after his son was killed in battle.
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Opinion | The Dangerous Logic Behind America's $1.25 Billion 'Mining' Deal With Pakistan
Rhetoric seems to have eclipsed the grim realities of Pakistan, once again.
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Opinion | Will Congress 'High Command' Fumble Another State? Possibly
Significantly, Karnataka is the fourth Congress-ruled state seeing such mayhem under Kharge.
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Opinion | Why Big Tech Has Committed Almost $80 Billion To India In Two Months
India has attracted more than $80 billion in fresh tech pledges within weeks. And this is on top of India's already strong post-pandemic annual FDI inflow of more than $80 billion.
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Opinion | India's Exclusion From US' Pax Silica Club Isn't A Snub - But It Matters
India is not part of the initial grouping. Some see this as a snub. Others say it doesn't matter. Both reactions miss the point. The issue is not optics. It's whether India is moving fast enough to be treated as a partner rather than a customer.
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Opinion | A City Without Water Is A Harbinger Of A Thirsty Planet
In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in East Asia and the Americas.
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Opinion | Usha Chilukuri Vance: The Hindu Republican America Can't Quite Define
Why shamerica keeps trying to squeeze Usha Vance into a box that was never made for her.
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Opinion | What India Can And Cannot Control About The US-Pak Deal On F-16s
Regardless of how India perceives the F-16 issue, history shows that Indian concerns have rarely been decisive in the American military-industrial calculus.
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Opinion | Pakistan's Push For An India-Less 'SAARC' Is Pure Delusion
Pakistan may want to shed its "Naach na Jaane, Aangan Tedha" mentality for its own good.
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Blog | Shivraj Patil: The 'Always Dapper' Home Minister, Brought Down By 26/11
A Sonia loyalist, Patil was known for his impeccable style and elegance. But nothing could prepare him for the aftershocks of the dastardly 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.
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Blog | The Real Ikkis Story: The 21-Year-Old Who Kept Pak Away From Jammu In 1971
Khetarpal denied the Pakistan Army a vital breakthrough on December 17, 1971, on India's western border, and kept them from gaining control of the road to Jammu. Indira Gandhi wrote a heartfelt letter to his father, honouring his bravery.
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Opinion | The Miami 'Purge': India Must Decide Its Seat As Trump 'Restructures' The G20
The restructuring of G20 reflects Trump's transactional worldview and his administration's impatience with multilateral forums that require consensus-building with developing economies.
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Opinion | Why India, Which Sends Rice To 170 Nations, Must Ignore Trump's Basmati Blues
India exported over 20 million metric tonnes of rice in 2024 to more than 170 countries. It is easily the world's largest rice exporter, bigger than the next four countries combined. The US buys only a sliver of India's shipments.
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Opinion | There Is An Unexpected 'Mentor' Guiding Rahul Gandhi These Days
Dipankar Bhattacharya, general secretary of the Communist Party of India [Marxist-Leninist] seems to be the newest friend, philosopher, guide of Rahul Gandhi, filling the void left behind by the late Sitaram Yechury.
