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Opinion | What The IndiGo Crisis Reveals About The Fragility Of Indian Aviation
The indelible images of passengers sleeping rough on cold terminal floors, captured and broadcast across every channel, will outlast a thousand corporate advertising campaigns by IndiGo. The urgent push for reform can no longer be ignored.
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Opinion | IndiGo Crisis Is What Happens When Market Power Becomes Market Arrogance
IndiGo now is a de-facto monopoly in India's skies. And what comes with monopolies is conceit and extortion.
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Opinion | Putin In India: The Elephant, The Bear And The Burning Forest
Vladimir Putin's visit to New Delhi highlighted something the world often forgets: India's relationship with Russia is older, deeper and more structurally rooted than contemporary commentary allows. It has endured for decades.
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Blog | It Was My Birthday. I Had A Funeral To Attend
On my birthday, I first attended a funeral, and then went to a food festival. Aunty would have had a big laugh. That's the kind of woman she was: prone to hearty laughs, and the warmest hugs.
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Opinion | Navigating the Tightrope: Why Putin's Visit Is A Masterclass In India's Foreign Policy
India's engagement with Russia is not without risks. Its decision to host the summit, nonetheless, and continue its trade ties despite overt disapproval from the West, is a clear exercise of strategic autonomy.
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Opinion | A Complex Problem For BJP: Constitution vs Constitution
The BJP's own constitution, rooted in its basic philosophy - Integral Humanism - conflicts with the country's Constitution. And it is not about the differences over the Preamble.
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Opinion | India's 12-Hour Workday Is The Wrong Kind Of Capitalism
While the rest of the world frets over artificial intelligence and how it could hollow out demand for human effort, a zeitgeist-defying idea is taking hold in India.
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Opinion | Putin In India: Why A Fuming Europe Must Accept Its Problems Aren't Of India's Making
The initiative of the three European envoys to write an article in an Indian daily maligning Putin and Russia just before the Russian president's visit served no real purpose. It was diplomatically unwarranted.
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Opinion | Americans Are Starting To Lose Faith In Trump
On November 4, Democrats scored decisive victories across state and local elections, turning what many considered local contests into a national referendum on the president's leadership.
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Opinion | India, Russia And A New Geometry of Global Trade
What is emerging is a multi-layered global economy - not a bifurcated East vs West model, but a world of overlapping networks. For India, this is not a threat but an opportunity.
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Opinion | The Anti-Putin 'Op-ed': Why Europe Must Stop Lecturing India Like It's 1905
Europe has had it easy for centuries. Today, two non-European powers - the US and Russia - are deciding its fate. What really stings the old continent today is this acute feeling of impotency, a sense of irrelevance.
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Opinion | India Still Needs Something Like Sanchar Saathi - Just Not Like This
India is experiencing what authorities describe as a "peak menace" of digital fraud. The Supreme Court recently took suo motu cognisance of digital arrest scams after victims collectively lost approximately Rs 3,000 crore.
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Opinion | West May Fume, But India Has More Than Enough Reason To Keep Putin Close
Maintaining strategic ties with Russia, even while deepening partnerships with the US and the EU, makes for an especially difficult phase for India. It will have to figure out ways to square the circle.
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Opinion | Sanchar Saathi Mess: 5 Lessons From The Centre's Spectacular Misfire
It's worrying that nobody in authority had the brains to anticipate the outrage that has dominated the public discourse in the last two days. In a way, the government has brought this blowback upon itself.
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Opinion | Guns To Rallies, How 'Drug Money' Is Fuelling Khalistani Extremism In Canada
Since 2007, more than 200 gang-related homicides in British Columbia alone have been linked to rival Punjabi-Canadian gangs fighting for control of the lucrative cross-border drug trade
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Opinion | Scindia's Ghost Is Haunting Congress Again - This Time In Karnataka
As Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar stakes his claim to the top post, the party's high command is walking a tightrope, acutely aware that one misstep could lead to a repeat of the catastrophic loss it suffered in Madhya Pradesh in 2020.
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Opinion | The Absurdity Of Banning 'Jai Hind' And 'Vande Mataram' In Parliament
As a member of the August house, it hurt and angered me deeply that a British-era rule, which we fought against with these very slogans, is now being replicated in Independent India's Parliament.
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Opinion | Dharmendra: The 'Pehelwan' Who Was A Poet
Dharmendra described himself as a 'mitti ka beta' (son of the soil). But some of his most memorable roles were those of a man of words, a teacher or a poet.
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Opinion | Idli, Dosa Done, Raagi Mudde And High Command Next In Karnataka
Was, and is, the Congress Karnataka power tussle settled? Is there clarity on whether Siddaramaiah will complete a five year term or will he give in and allow DK Shivakumar to take charge in the next few months?
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Opinion | Congress's Greatest Enemy Isn't BJP, But Itself
As the Congress grapples with its existential crisis, one is left to ponder: can a party so steeped in its own legacy navigate the turbulent waters of contemporary politics? Or is it destined to retrace its steps into irrelevance?
