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Blog | Why You Should Let Your Child Fail, And Falter, And Learn
Are we preparing our children for the world, or preparing the world for them? Because the world will not always bend.
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Opinion | A Star Targeted? Why Jana Nayagan Row Might Be A Gift In Disguise For Vijay
Ultimately, 'Jana Nayagan' will get a certification and will be released. But the damage - or the momentum - may already be inflicted. And, when it does, all this courtroom drama will only bolster its opening at the box office.
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Opinion | The Pawars Are Talking Again, And So Are Thackerays. Here's Why
Maharashtra's political landscape is witnessing unprecedented realignments as the state prepares for municipal corporation elections across 29 bodies, a poll that comes four years behind schedule.
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Opinion | Is Jana Nayagan The Right 'The End' For Vijay The Actor?
Is Jana Nayagan the right kind of story for Vijay to end his stellar movie career with? Would the film satisfy his fans and the regular movie-goer alike?
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Opinion | Kerala's Minerals May Be India's Key To Long-Horizon Strategic Independence
Kerala's heavy minerals include monazite, ilmenite, rutile, zircon, and sillimanite - materials indispensable to energy transition, defence manufacturing, electronics, and advanced metallurgy. And yet, India has barely begun to value this endowment.
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Opinion | Indore, Gandhinagar, Bengaluru: Why Your 'Clean' City Doesn't Have Clean Water
The recent loss of lives in Indore, the outbreak of typhoid in Gandhinagar, and water contamination-linked illness cases in Bengaluru expose a deep systemic failure - one that forces us to question what 'clean' and 'well-managed' truly mean in India.
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Blog | Madhav Gadgil: The 'Durable Optimist' Who Believed Science, Too, Has Obligations
Gadgil, despite decades of frustration and bureaucratic sidelining, believed that people could organise, that knowledge could travel, and that democracy, however delayed, could still correct its course.
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Blog | What's Stopping Vijay's Film? 6 'Conspiracy Theories' About Jana Nayagan
In Tamil Nadu, it turns out you don't need a release date for the promise of a blockbuster. Sometimes, just a missing censor certificate is enough.
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Opinion | The $700-Billion-Big China Problem Behind Trump's Venezuela Blitz
Venezuela is only part of the story. China has assembled a formidable economic footprint across Latin America. Trade between China and the region crossed $518 billion in 2024, making Beijing the largest trading partner for much of South America.
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Opinion | Why 10-Minute Delivery Model Is Under Pressure In India
Indias booming quick-commerce industry is on notice. In a New Years Eve flash strike, more than 200,000 riders refused to ferry food, grocery and other orders nationwide.
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Opinion | The Misplaced Priorities Of Zohran Mamdani
As New York City's newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani shoulders the immense responsibility of governing a metropolis of over 8 million people. Yet, strikingly, he has chosen to immerse himself in the minutiae of Indian politics.
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Opinion | US, UK Are Losing Their Professionals To A City They Once Mocked
Many are fully aware of what Dubai is not. But they are equally clear about what it offers.
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Opinion | There's A Question About Trump India Hasn't Asked Yet After Venezuela
Beyond mere criticism of alliances, Donald Trump has created deep insecurity among partners once reliant on American stability.
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Blog | A Story Not Told in 'Ikkis': What Arun Khetarpal Did With His Rs 685 Army Salary
Four months after young Arun wrote a moving letter to his grandfather, he was martyred on December 16, the last day of the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
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Opinion | China's "Core Interests": What It Means, And Why Arunachal Is Now A Part Of It
India should be cautious of the possibility of China's new 'low-risk-high-returns' approach towards the border: delegitimising the nationality of Indian travellers from Arunachal and the use of proxy actors acting at its behest.
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Opinion | Suresh Kalmadi: The Man Behind The Legendary 5-Star Dinner That Unnerved Even Sonia Gandhi
Kalmadi proved that in Indian politics, the man who controls the guest list often has more power than those whose names appear on it.
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Opinion | Five Questions About Money to Ponder in 2026
Stablecoins had their ChatGPT moment in 2025. Payment tokens that were until now used mostly by crypto traders are raring to go mainstream, and not just in the US, where they got regulatory blessing through the Genius Act.
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Opinion | US' Trumped-Up Tariffs Have No Effect On Global Trade
Last year was supposed to mark the moment international trade was dismantled. President Donald Trump's tariffs, we were told, were so unprecedented in scale and ambition that they might stop globalisation in its tracks.
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Opinion | Might Is Right, Again: On America's 'Kidnapping' Of A Sitting President
The barrage of visuals showing Maduro, inelegantly dressed, in handcuffs on American soil, are startling but nothing new in the US playbook. Remember Gaddafi and Saddam? Only, the theatre is the neighbourhood and not the faraway 'Middle East'.
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Opinion | How Venezuela's China-Made Weapons Failed To Keep The US Away
Unlike post-Operation Sindoor, when Beijing hailed Pakistan's air-defence operations against India as a success of Islamabad's "Made in China" military force, there is an eerie silence within Beijing this time.
