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Opinion | From Headingley, More Positives Than Negatives For India
The team management needs to stop being defensive, think positive and invest in players with proven potential and a future rather than in those on borrowed time.
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Opinion | Why Iranians Are Standing With Their Regime - Even When They Hate It
Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began, did not wait or depend on external forces to engineer a change. It was implemented by Tunisians themselves. Any Iranian Spring, too, must begin in Iran.
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Opinion | For Amit Shah, A Note On What Ambedkar, Gandhi, Azad Said About 'English'
India doesn't need less English. It needs more multilingualism, more access, and more confidence in its ability to speak in many tongues without shame or fear.
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Opinion | Why America Is Like A Teenager Who Refuses To Grow Up
American foreign policy in West Asia is a textbook example of adolescent overreach: short attention spans, cyclical memory, a belief in shortcuts to regime change, and an almost allergic reaction to complexity.
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Opinion | After Missiles, The Anxieties Taking Hold Of Iran Now
The events of the past few months and Israel's application of outright military dominance over its skies may shake up and reshape the way in which Iran's polity has functioned over the past 46 years
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Opinion | How Zohran Mamdani Has Given Indian-Americans An Identity Crisis
Suddenly, many Indians' urge to claim anyone even remotely Indian in terms of their genetic makeup for achieving anything on the global stage has turned into outright hate.
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Opinion | Why The Word 'Nuclear' Shouldn't Scare Us So
While nuclear technology for power generation holds immense potential to drive the global energy transition, it has always been haunted by its dual-use nature, as there is a very fine red line between the civilian and military use of nuclear energy.
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Opinion | Congress May Have Finally Solved Its Tharoor Dilemma In Kerala
With the Nilambur by-election in the bag, maybe the Congress can finally put the sordid Tharoor saga behind it and concentrate on the challenging panchayat and assembly elections looming ahead.
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Opinion | 50 Years Since Emergency: What Really Fuelled Indira Gandhi's Insecurity
The roots of the political crisis that led to Emergency lay in the factional politics of Congress.
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Opinion | Whose Friend Is The US Anyway?
As of 2025, many countries, big and small, view the US less as a protector and more like an unreliable patron - slow to act if at all, unsure of its commitments, often causing embarrassment, and vulnerable to distraction.
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Opinion | US, Iran And A Night Of Missiles And Fragile Messages
Trump's ceasefire declaration signals that the US does not seek further entanglement. Whether that message holds beyond a social media post remains to be seen.
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Blog | This Dehradun Workshop Makes Armour For Game Of Thrones, House Of The Dragon. And We Had No Idea
You do not expect to find the soul of House of the Dragon tucked away in Uttarakhand - but there it was. Not behind velvet ropes or inside a studio lot, but laid out on workbenches, half-built and very real.
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Opinion | The Latest G7 Was A Disaster, Thanks To Trump
With the deep differences between the US and the other six members from Trump's first term getting accentuated after his re-election, the prognostics for this summit were, in any case, not good.
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Opinion | What If Trump Has Just Started Another 'Forever War'?
Khamenei's political legitimacy rests on his ability to stand up to the 'Great Satan', the US. While America may not be targeting the regime directly, these attacks are a challenge to him, which he won't be able to let go of without a response
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Opinion | How Fringe Elements - And A Bypoll - Have Upended Kerala's Politics
As Kerala voted for the Nilambur by-election this week, communalism and dog-whistles came to dominate the political discourse of all political parties.
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On Board An Air India Flight, A Week Since The Ahmedabad Plane Crash
Terminal 3 of the Delhi airport is normally marked by a steady hum of activity. Cackling noises, crying babies, smiling faces, and the sound of movement. This day was different.
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Opinion | The Magic Of Carlos Alcaraz
Since the Open Era began in 1968, there had been only eight men who had come back from two sets down to win a Grand Slam final. Last week, Alcaraz became the ninth. The ninth man in 57 years.
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Opinion | Between Operations Gibraltar And Sindoor, A Missed Industrial Revolution
A look at some numbers to see how far India has travelled over the last sixty years, since Operation Gibraltar of 1965.
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Opinion | There's Something 26/11 Mumbai Attack Can Tell Us About Trump-Munir Lunch
Now, as India threatens that 'Operation Sindoor' is far from over, US troops on its soil are a nice bit of insurance for Pakistan against Indian fury. But that also means more terrorism, not less.
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Opinion | Iran, Israel, And The Ghosts Of A Relationship Gone Bad
In a twisted way, Iran still seems to be helping Israel. In furthering Israel's narrative of being the victim. Iran, in turn, stands as isolated today as its arch enemy Iraq once was.
