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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
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Opinion: India's New Surveillance Challenge From Pakistan Lies 500 km Above Earth
A US-based firm recently shared a post on LinkedIn explaining how Pakistan's earth observation satellite, PRSC EO3, is an anomaly because of its orbit. The US-based company COMSPOC found that the electro-optical imagery satellite, which requires sunlight to capture images of the ground, was placed in a 38-degree inclined orbit around Earth. The orb...
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Opinion | Reform Without Rupture: Narendra Modi Through A Burkean Conservative Lens
PM Modi comes from a distinctly Indic political and intellectual background, not the Anglo-European conservative tradition. Even so, a comparison can help highlight certain similarities in how both approach tradition, change and political authority.
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Opinion: In PM Modi's Tarakeshwar Visit, A Battle For Bengal's Memory
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting West Bengal's Tarakeshwar on June 20 for three major reasons. The first and most important reason is the celebration of West Bengal Day. The BJP government under Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has declared June 20 as the official "West Bengal Day", beginning from 2026. The date carries historical signifi...
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Opinion: The 'Strategic' In India-US Partnership May Have Changed
The highly anticipated meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the mercurial US President Donald Trump is over, and the Ministry of External Affairs can heave a sigh of relief. No disruptive comments were noted, and Trump, in fact, was lavish in his praise of the longest continuously serving democratically elected Prime Minister. Everything pla...
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US Has No Regrets. Indian Sailor Killings Collateral Damage For Them
Three Indian mariners on a merchant ship off the coast of Iran and Oman are killed by the US Navy, but the US did not think it politically appropriate to express regret at this loss of life. Whatever the circumstances that led to this killing, some words of regret from the US would have been normal. After all, the merchant ship was unarmed and was ...
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Social Media Monopoly Looked Unbreakable For A Decade. It Doesn't Anymore
The real question about X was never about the platform. It was always about the architecture Elon Musk envisioned around it.
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Trump's Iran War: Was It Worth It?
President Donald Trump attacked Iran to weaken the Islamic Republic, crush its ambitions and neuter it as a regional threat. But he leaves the battlefield with his adversary strategically stronger and forcing compromises. There's been no regime change and a new version of the old rules still. Also, no descent into oblivion and no abject surrende...
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Ringside View | FIFA World Cup 2026: Magic Of Cristiano Ronaldo Missing — But Why?
On a day when Lionel Messi found the net, Kylian Mbappe delivered again and Harry Kane added his name to the scoresheet, Cristiano Ronaldo's was conspicuously absent.
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Public Assets, Private Capital: India's Next Reform Step
That gap between what India's sovereign assets are worth and what they currently earn is central to India's location in the low-middle income bracket.
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Haunted Or Hunted? Why The Ghosts Of 2015 Continue To Shadow Sukhbir Badal
Sukhbir Singh Badal may have completed the religious punishment imposed upon him, but his party is still being made to serve a political punishment.
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Opinion| Did Trinamool Congress Collapse For Want Of Clear Ideology?
The dramatic collapse of the Trinamool in West Bengal following the poll defeat has reignited a debate - was the party's collapse inevitable because it never possessed a coherent ideological foundation of its own?
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Inside The "Rational Frenzy" Driving The AI Super-Cycle
AI investment has become a macroeconomic fact in the West. The forces that make it impossible to escape are the same ones that have stopped the market from pricing it.
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Opinion | Heir Not-So-Apparent: The New Reality Of Indian Politics
Trinamool's turmoil is a warning to regional parties that legacy can open the door, but only legitimacy keeps the house from breaking.
