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India In The Age Of AI: Producer, Consumer, Or Bystander?
The US and China were burning hundreds of billions on foundational model development. India's competitive advantage, the argument ran, lay in its deep software services capability, its cost efficiency and its ability to build applications serving specific markets and verticals.
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Opinion | Britain Seems To Have A New National Hobby: Firing Its Prime Ministers
Britain's Prime Ministers are dropping like mayflies, and nobody seems to be able to stop the mayhem.
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Opinion | Will Bhagwant Mann's 'Video' Row Become A Larger Punjab Battle?
The politics of 2026 shares little with that of 1982. But the phrase does not carry politics alone; it carries memory. Once invoked, it can turn a political disagreement into a moral confrontation that is much harder to resolve or step back from.
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Opinion | Iran War: Has New Delhi Lost Out, And Has Pak Really Gained? By Shashi Tharoor
To imagine a Nobel Peace for the terrorist-sponsoring Field Marshal Asim Munir may be a fantasy too far. The world sees clearly the difference between an autonomous actor and a message-carrying stool-pigeon.
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Opinion: El Nino Is Set To Further Disrupt India's $300 Billion Farm Economy
The interaction between the numerous factors affecting the monsoon isn't fully understood, but it's unlikely that El Nino, first declared just a few weeks ago, is the key driver of its late onset.
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Opinion | Why Indian Parties Are Beginning To Look Like Political 'Spare Parts'
India has thousands of political parties on paper. Some are genuine vehicles of aspiration. But others are beginning to look like political spare parts: useful when the main engine needs reassembly. Maharashtra and West Bengal are examples.
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Opinion | The Iran Paradox: 2 Things That Can Derail The Peace Process
The possibility of talks extending for months and years on two crucial issues may turn this 'roadmap' into a never-ending saga.
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Opinion | Meta Makes A $900 Million Super-App Move In India
Cred's founder and Chief Executive Officer Kunal Shah will move to Meta as the head of its flagship messaging service.
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CRED, Kunal Shah, And The Questions That Won't Go Away
Founded by Shah in 2018, CRED was built to reward creditworthy Indians for responsible financial behaviour.
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Blog | We Have Not Lost Ourselves - Notes From A Kashmiri Pandit
I was seventeen the night I left Kashmir. It was January 19, 1990. My father woke me at three in the morning. I can still feel that hand on my shoulder in the cold.
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The AI Overhaul: What India Can Learn From China's Massive University Shakeup
China has carried out the most sweeping university overhaul in the past five years. It has eliminated 12,200 undergraduate programmes and introduced 10,200 new ones. We in India need to sit with this news for a moment.
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Opinion | Why Pakistan Is Becoming Harder To Isolate - Despite India's Push
Pakistan's willingness to sell itself to the highest bidder explains its curious positioning in the world. India's only option now is to get creative as it tries to isolate it globally.
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Opinion | The Great Surrender: Why This Is America's Worst Humiliation In Over 50 Years
There is no precedent in recent US history for an American president accepting such humiliating terms as in the Iran deal.
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Opinion | Main Vaapas Aaunga Will Be Called A Masterpiece One Day, And It Should Be Today
I don't want to revisit Main Vaapas Aaunga in 2035 and announce that it was misunderstood. I would rather acknowledge what it is right now. A masterpiece.
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Ending Child Marriage by Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Exploitation
Child and women's rights are inseparable: poverty, gender bias and social norms fuel child marriage and dowry, robbing girls of education and agency
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Opinion | Raped At 14, Then Hounded By Perpetrator: The Story Of Shweta And A Failing System
After the FIR was recorded, Rahul, since he was a child in conflict with law (CCL), was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) and immediately granted bail. Therein lies the blindspot in India's juvenile justice law.
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Opinion: Why Gen X Must Police Authenticity In The Age Of AI
In the bazaars of Mughal India, the muhtasib walked the lanes each morning with a unique authority. He carried no sword but only a set of weights and a practised eye. His tasks were unglamorous such as to check that the trader's scale was honest, that the ghee remained free of any added fat, that the silk sold as Banarasi was genuine, rather tha...
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Opinion | Uddhav Sena, Trinamool Crises: A Grim Reminder And Mockery Of Voter Choices
The parallel defection dramas playing out in West Bengal and Maharashtra should worry us as voters. They not only serve as a grim reminder of the growing crisis in an electoral democracy but also make a mockery of our choices in the polling booth. Defections are not new. But the rate at which political parties have been splitting and regrouping ...
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Safe...For Now: Rohit Sharma And The Curious Art Of Delaying The Inevitable
By the time Rohit Sharma had walked out to bat in Chennai on Saturday evening, he would have known the conversations about him.
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Building Safer Futures: Reimagining Child Protection with Artificial Intelligence
Raksha AI pinpointed a trafficking corridor in Jharkhand, enabling the rescue of two missing sisters, 52 more children, 21 arrests, and a dismantled network
