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Opinion | From Control To Complexity: Rethinking Power In A Fragmented World
In a world defined by complexity, rigid frameworks are unlikely to endure. But nor can a purely power-driven system provide the stability that global markets and societies require.
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Opinion | What's Behind Araghchi's Visit To China Right Before Trump-Xi Meeting?
Beijing remains indispensable to Tehran as an economic backer and diplomatic shield, but it is not prepared to become its war ally.
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Blog | Subrata Gupta: Once Rejected By Mamata Banerjee, Now Suvendu Adhikari's Aide
Subrata Gupta earned a reputation for honesty, transparency, and professionalism.
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Opinion | Team 60: Yogi Plays A Sixer Off Akhilesh's Yorker
Eye on 2027 elections, BJP expands Yogi cabinet with a Mandal tilt
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Opinion | Stalin, Mamata And The Limits Of 'Regional Identity' Politics
The claim that the DMK was the sole custodian of Tamil pride, capable of protecting it from Hindutva, had been the party's primary electoral plank. The same was true for the TMC in Bengal. Yet, they collapsed.
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Opinion | KC Venugopal, And The Paradox Of Being The Man Rahul Can't Do Without
The tragedy for Satheesan, if he doesn't get the post, would be that he helped create the victory that made Venugopal possible. The danger for Venugopal is that everyone in Kerala knows it.
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Opinion: Suvendu Adhikari And the Promise of Bengal's 'Second Renaissance'
This election saw the BJP increasingly adapting its political language to Bengal's cultural ethos, blending symbolism around fish, Durga and Kali with promises of economic revival.
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Opinion | Vijay Gets Math Right, But Trust Deficit Can Be His Government's Achilles' Heel
After twists and turns that would put a Kollywood potboiler to shame, TVK chief Vijay can finally show the 120 MLAs-elect in his support to Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Arlekar.
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Opinion | No Permanent Rivals In Politics As Vijay Turns Tamil Nadu Into 3-Way Battle
Back in 2006, when former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa formed an alliance with MDMK chief Vaiko, she told waiting reporters that "there are no permanent friends or allies in politics."
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Blog | Suvendu Adhikari: The Man Who Never Forgot How He Was Denied A Stage In 2011
The story of Suvendu Adhikari begins in 2011 - from a stage in Dharmatala that made him invisible and denied him the limelight he thought should've been his.
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Analysis | What Are Vijay's 5 Big Options Right Now? Look At Maharashtra, Bihar, And Karnataka
Governor's 'discretion' can play a big role in what happens after an assembly election. Three states have seen that happening.
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Opinion: At The Edge Of The Map, A Bet On Power: Why India Is Building In Great Nicobar
To planners in New Delhi, Great Nicobar Island is a hinge point between the Indian Ocean and the Indo-Pacific, a vantage over the world's busiest sea lanes, and potentially, a lever of both economic and strategic power.
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Opinion | One Year Of Op Sindoor: Why 'Round 2' Will Be A Different Beast Entirely
Another Op Sindoor - highly likely - would have to be framed and executed in quite a different milieu.
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Opinion | Is INDIA Bloc Set To Split After Tamil Nadu, Bengal Results? A Look At The Mess
Reportedly, Rahul was quick to realise his folly of not siding with Vijay sooner, the day votes were cast across Tamil Nadu. By April 24-25, he had told a close aide, "We made a blunder in Tamil Nadu."
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Opinion | 'Who Else?' - The Hubris That Shattered The Left In Kerala
The LDF's slogan, "Matt aarunde?" ("Who else is there?"), complete with towering portraits of Pinarayi Vijayan, was intended to project stability and a lack of alternatives. Instead, it projected an arrogance that voters found stifling.
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Opinion | Wrong To Delay Vijay 'Sarkar', Two Leaves Must Blow The Whistle
This is a clear case - Vijay's TVK is the number one party by a mile in a hung verdict and needs to have the chance to prove its numbers on the floor of the house
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Opinion | Bengal's Critical Turn: How 2026 Redrew Electoral Loyalties
In Bengal, tradition is not the same as stagnation. It's the way people carry lessons forward. After 2026, Bengalis will likely carry a new lesson: that the electorate can remake its loyalties.
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Opinion | The Dam Breaks: Kerala Didn't Reject The Left, It Rejected What It Had Turned Into
This verdict is not merely an anti-incumbency wave, but also a moral correction issued by a politically literate electorate against the tone of power.
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Opinion | Mafia, Scams and Shifting Loyalties: How Mamata Banerjee Lost The Plot
It was not a single misstep. It was the cumulative weight of multiple changes - some gradual, some sudden - that altered the outcome.
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Opinion | The Vijay Paradox: How A 'Welfare State' Still Ended Up Dissatisfied
The TVK will have to go the extra mile to deliver the goods, over and above the DMK's slew of welfarist measures that were generally comfortable, but not enough for the voter who simply said, 'Yeh Dil Maange More'.
