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Opinion | US-Iran MoU Collapse: Why The Strait Of Hormuz Is Back On The Brink
Why did the ceasefire fail? Could it have been prevented? The answer to many of these questions lies in the framing of the 14-Point MoU and the uneven playfield that it created.
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Blog | Amaira, And The Daily Goodbye Every Parent Takes For Granted
I kept thinking about that moment every parent knows so well. The one where you watch your child disappear through the school gate, believing they will come home.
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Opinion | By Trump, For Trump: Inside The Murky Election Crisis America Is Sleepwalking Into
Trump has learnt that overturning an election after losing is extraordinarily difficult. This time, he is shaping the battlefield before America votes.
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Opinion | DMK's Strength Is Becoming Its Weakness - And Nobody Is Happier Than Vijay
DMK is fast closing doors that perhaps needed to be kept open.
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Opinion | Mamata Banerjee's Bitter Loss And The Great Bengal 'Eggsplosion'
Bengali word for egg is "dim". Let's not slip into a "dimocracy"
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Opinion | Satluj To Santosh To Padmaavat, How Getting Offended Became India's Favourite Hobby
There are three reasons why films based on real incidents or beloved myths depart from the truth
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Opinion | Thanks To Trump, Saving The US-Iran Islamabad Deal Is Now Harder Than Ever
Neither side wants more war. But neither side seems able to stop itself from marching towards one.
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Opinion | After US-Iran, Why Is Pakistan Suddenly 'Brokering' Peace In Libya Now? Hint: $4 Billion
According to reports, Pakistan became one of the interlocutors alongside the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.
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Opinion | Prashant Kishor Is Now Facing The Hardest Test Of His Entire Career
The strategist who once told parties how to win must now prove that he knows how to do that himself.
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Opinion | Pak Has A Kashmir Crisis - And It May Already Be Planning To Export It To India
The lie of 'Azad Kashmir' is fast catching up with Pakistan. But it might just use it to push India into a tough spot.
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Opinion: India's SpaceX Moment Is Here; Vikram-1 And The Startup Rocket Revolution
Vikram-1 is a serious technical undertaking, not a symbolic gesture. The seven-storey, carbon-composite rocket has been developed largely in-house, with solid, liquid and upper-stage propulsion technologies under Skyroot's Kalam, Raman and Dhawan programmes.
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Ringside View | Portugal's Greatest Mistake Was Making The World Cup About Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is still a great player, but he is nowhere near where he used to be. Other teams do not fear him as much as they used to.
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Opinion | America, Trump, And The Politics Of Belonging In A Connected World
Many commentators view the current debate as another chapter in Donald Trump's political story. That explanation is incomplete.
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Opinion | Vladimir Putin Hasn't Looked This Desperate In Over 25 Years
As the Russian position weakens, there is possibility of a coup against Putin, for whom just too many things have gone wrong in the last four years.
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Opinion | Decoding Zoonotic Spillover Through A 'One-Health' Approach
The next pandemic threat may already be circulating silently at the human-animal-environment interface. Whether it remains localised or escalates into a global crisis will depend on our ability to understand and address its drivers.
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Opinion | Uniform Civil Code And The Primacy of Constitutional Rights Over Personal Laws
In the context of Muslim personal law, state intervention is neither arbitrary nor majoritarian but is triggered when certain rules produce systemic rights-violations, particularly gender-based discrimination.
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What Cities Owe Their Anganwadis
From cramped rented rooms to purpose-built commons: anganwadi centres are the invisible infrastructure of Indian cities. Recognise and invest in them, and you rebuild urban life from the ground up
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Opinion | America's Battlefield Dominance Is Under Serious Threat
Warfare, strategy and weapons systems are morphing at extraordinary speed. The US still possesses by far the most capable military.
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Opinion | What Modi's Jakarta Visit Means For The Small Seller And The Small Buyer
India's digital public infrastructure, anchored in Aadhaar for identity, UPI for payments, and more recently the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) for digital transactions, has become one of the most closely studied government-built technology stacks in the world
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Opinion | Satluj, Jaswant Singh Khalra, And When Disappearance Is The Story
Jaswant Singh Khalra followed the dead to restore their dignity. Three decades later, a film on his life briefly appeared and then disappeared from Indian screens.
