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Opinion | New Front With Mamata Banerjee At Helm? Akhilesh Yadav Remarks Spark Buzz
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav's 40-minute meeting in Kolkata seems to hold kernels of a nascent effort at a front for 2029, where the Congress could be asked to take a backseat.
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Opinion | Budget 2026: No More 'Instant Gratification'
Enhancing the Indian economy to realise the audacious ambition of becoming a developed economy in the next 21 years entails unglamorous work.
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Opinion | The Real Reason Mamata Has Taken The SIR Fight To Delhi
Mamata plans to turn the SIR controversy to the Trinamool's advantage as she prepares to contest for a fourth term as Chief Minister.
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Opinion | India's Tax Burden Is Falling On The Wrong Shoulders: The Middle Class
The middle class has been doing the heavy lifting for far too long. It's time for policy to recognise and reward that contribution.
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Opinion | Budget 2026: Is 'Invisible Kerala' Paying The Price For Being 'Unaligned'?
What Kerala needs is not just sympathy or slogans. We need an alternative that commands respect in Delhi and delivers development in Kerala. Right now, we have neither.
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Opinion l The Many Shades Of Nirmala Sitharaman's Union Budget 2026
In the kaleidoscopic narrative of India's economic landscape, the release of Budget 2026 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman marked a day likely to resonate for years to come.
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Opinion | Union Budget 2026-27: Don't Look For Fireworks Here. Continuity Is The Goal
The latest Budget needs to be read as a statement of macroeconomic restraint under external stress. Its defining feature is calibration.
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Opinion | How The Economic Survey Redefines India's Growth Constraints
The Survey situates India's recent performance within a global environment characterised by persistent geopolitical uncertainty, fragmented trade regimes, and rising risk premia.
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Opinion | China's Fallen Generals: Inside Xi's Military Purge, And What It Means For The Border
A sweeping purge at the top of the PLA raises urgent questions about loyalty and border stability in China.
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Blog | "Hamberder" To "Furniture Of Children", Trump And His 'Unpresidented' English
Time and again, Donald Trump has proven that he possesses the best words. They just aren't always the ones in the dictionary.
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Blog | Sunetra Pawar: From Behind The Scenes To Pinnacle Of Power
Right now, the spotlight is not on a seasoned politician from the Pawar family, but a face that has spent decades observing the machinery of governance from behind the scenes: Sunetra Pawar, affectionately known as 'vahini' (sister-in-law).
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Book Review | 'Tell My Mother I Like Boys': Chef Suvir Saran Tells His Boldest Story Yet
'Tell My Mother I Like Boys' is not a typical chef memoir. It is not a coming-out manifesto. It is not a voyeuristic celebrity tell-all. It is something far more intimate: a life examined honestly.
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Opinion | In Trump's World, Wikipedia's Lesson On Collaboration
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's life's work rests on a proposition that feels almost subversive in 2026: that most people, given the right framework, want to collaborate in good faith.
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Opinion | Trump, Xi, Putin - In The Age Of Strongmen, The Peril For 'Middle Powers'
There is a need for democracies like India, Brazil, Europe and Canada to form new alliances; otherwise, we will have to live in a world dominated by strongmen and transactional leaders like Trump and Xi.
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Opinion | Iran Requires a Regime Change, Just Not The Kind America Wants
Trump's dreams of effecting a regime change in Iran need to be considered along two factors related to the power structures within Iran, both of which US seems indifferent to.
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Opinion | No India, No Quad: What America's New Defence Strategy Report Really Means
The absence of any mention of India and the Quad from the strategy is not a judgment on their importance, but a signal that the United States does not intend to organise Asian security through formalised coalitions or extended military guarantees.
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Opinion | An India Miscalculation, And Ego: Inside Bangladesh's Costly World Cup Exit
If the Bangladesh Cricket Board and the Bangladesh government thought that there was a genuine security threat to their players in India, why weren't these concerns raised earlier?
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Opinion | Beyond Ajit Pawar: What Happens To Sharad Pawar's 'Succession' Plan Now?
If Pawar fails to produce one last rabbit from his hat to revive his party after the massive loss of Ajit Pawar, the BJP juggernaut is bound to move in to occupy spaces vacated by the NCP.
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Opinion | Deals With EU And UK Give Tipplers and Trade Reasons To Be High
The most obvious benefit, according to industry insiders, is the growing access the market will now have to a greater variety of alcobev brands, from whisky, vodka and beer to wines, cognacs and liqueurs, at lower prices.
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Opinion | Ajit Pawar: The Politician Who Didn't Pretend
Ajit Pawar bent over backwards to be in power; when there, he commandeered it to work for the public while helping his party, of course.
