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Blog | Hey Bollywood, What Is It With The 'Bong Babe' Fetish?
Unlike what might be suggested, 'liberalism' is not stuffed in our potatoes, nor is it a virus Bengali women are born with. One is not born but becomes Rani Chatterjee or Madhu Bose.
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Opinion | Snapback To Reality: On Iran's 45-Year Slog To Nowhere
Vietnam chose wisely. It invited its old enemy to build factories, sign defence pacts and invest in peace. Tehran must decide: does it want to be the next Vietnam - or the next North Korea?
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Blog | From A Goldman Sachs Job To OnlyFans, The Lure Of The 'Creator Economy'
The rise of the creator economy has subtly brutalised the psyche of the toppers, the achievers, the ones who did everything right. Their skills and knowledge are barely valued in a world where content outperforms competence.
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Blog | Why Radhika Yadav Case Should Force Us To Redefine 'Honour' Killings
That people have turned Radhika's case into a Hindu-Muslim debate on social media only shows how narrow our definition of honour killing is.
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Opinion | Air India Crash: Exactly Whom Are The Two 'Leaks' And The Probe Report Helping?
The speculation, allegations and mythmaking around the AI-171 crash threaten to muddy the truth irreversibly. Who benefits from this mess?
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Opinion | The Anguish Of Nimisha Priya And The Imperative Of Compassion
Nimisha's story is, sadly, one that epitomises the hopes and vulnerabilities of many Keralites who seek opportunity in distant lands.
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Opinion | Barak Valley In Crisis - Call for Connectivity, Equity, And National Integration
Decades of infrastructural neglect and recurring monsoon disasters demand a transformative development package for Assam's Barak Valley.
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Opinion | Can India And China Be 'Frenemies'?
The question that needs to be asked is, why did China risk a major conflict with India? What was the purpose? Was it to force India to come to the negotiating table, as Mao had told his generals in October 1962?
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Opinion | China, Pakistan, And The Trouble With Keeping Snakes In Your Backyard
While declaring that China opposes all forms of terrorism, its foreign ministry asserts that it seeks to foster amity. Does Beijing really think it can present itself as an honest broker even as it acts like a behind-the-scenes instigator?
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Opinion | Why Are Maruti, Tata, Mahindra Making Fewer EVs?
If rare earth shipments don't resume soon, Indian manufacturers may be forced to import fully built motors from China, raising costs by 5-10%.
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Opinion | Heroes Don't Always Win. At Lord's, That Was Ravindra Jadeja
Team India need to sort out quite a few things in this week-long break before the fourth Test starts in Manchester on July 23. But, the one thing they dont need to think about at all is what Ravindra Jadeja will bring to the table.
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Opinion | The Great Indian IT Crash: Why You, An Engineer, Still Can't Find A Job
In Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, you will find PG hostels full of jobless coders, waiting, scrolling job portals, wondering what happened to their cherished IT dream. This is a story of a generation staring up a ladder that no longer reaches the sky
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Opinion | Karnataka Is A Test For Rahul Gandhi - And He's Failing Badly, Again
There is an imminent danger of the Rajasthan scenario repeating itself in Karnataka unless the party takes decisive steps to hammer out an understanding between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar. But Rahul Gandhi doesn't seem up to the task.
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Blog | Witch, Warrior, Woman: Radhika Apte Is Done Playing Nice
Apte is a phenomenon - an actor whose range, though often confined to the thematic corridors of thriller and horror, quietly defies the limitations imposed by the very industry that should champion her.
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Blog | Is Your Hobby Worth Anything? No? Find Something Else
When did hobbies become an intellectual contest among peers? Why can humans, bred and raised on social media, not simply enjoy and be and, as my good friend says, pluck grass in a green field with not a thought to spare?
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Blog | The Opposite Story: On The Tragic End Of Radhika Yadav's Dream Life
The story of Radhika Yadav is one of cultivation with potential to grow in abundance, but chopped as she got to bloom.
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Blog | The Longest Fight: The Unseen Struggles To Save Nimisha Priya In Yemen
The case of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse from Kollankod in Kerala's Palakkad district, sentenced to death in Yemen, is not just a legal battle-it is a deeply human story of a mother's tears, a daughter's suffering, and a society's moral conscience.
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Opinion | How Are Pak Terrorists Moving Money? Hints From An FATF Report
A recent FATF flags, for the first time, state-sponsored terrorism, though it admits it has not yet developed a typology for this.
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Blog | Deporting Elon Musk? What Happens If Trump Actually Does It
Let's be honest - scrolling through an endless stream of headlines can feel like deja vu on loop. After a while, every story starts to blur, your eyes glaze over, and your brain is begging for something that actually makes you sit up straight.
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Opinion | Gurugram And Its 'Manhattan' Dreams: Fake It Till You Flood It
While news pages are moaning about waterlogged roads in the city, there is a builder boldly advertising, in a newspaper jacket, "luxe suites" in an imaginatively titled "South of Gurugram".
