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Opinion | Ground Zero, Pahalgam, And A Conundrum Of Pain In Kashmir
If Ground Zero succeeds in making even a single member of the audience revisit their presumptions and prejudices, as one of the characters does before the climax, it should be deemed a hit, despite the box office verdict.
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Opinion: What Has JD Vance's India Visit Achieved?
Apart from the minor detail that the US is India's largest trading partner, there's this critical matter of matrimony.
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Opinion | What Ambedkar's Raised Finger Is Really Trying To Tell You
Ambedkar's raised finger, though routinely vandalised in different parts of the country, keeps the hope alive against all hopes.
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Opinion | Why Is Trump Invoking JFK? Hint: Russia
Now that the Trump administration is avowedly in favour of peace with Russia, invoking JFK's memory works in their favour.
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Opinion | Can India And China Ever Really 'Dance' Together?
China keeps insisting that India is not a significant security threat. Yet, reportedly, it has significantly amped up its surveillance capabilities over India.
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Opinion | Trump-Zelensky Face-Off: Boys, Uninterrupted
What the world saw at the Oval Office was a performance that suited everyone involved. Or so they thought.
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Opinion | Mo, Diversity, And The Indian Immigrant In The US
If an alien were to gain insights into the immigrant situation currently playing out in the US, the Netflix show Mo would act as a good gateway. Except, it might lead the alien to believe that there are no Indian immigrants, legal or illegal, in US
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Opinion | Trump's Second Coming: When American Anxiety Met The Fist
A casual chat with a healthcare aide working for one of the largest health service conglomerates in Pennsylvania reveals several of the anxieties that explain Trumps stellar comeback as the POTUS.
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Opinion | Are You 'Pretending' To Work? It's Not Entirely Your Fault
Hiring people who appear to work or forcing people to appear to work are problems that are created by the heads of organisations, rarely by the hands.
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Blog | Of Smoking, 'Style', And New Year's Resolutions
Headlines around the Milan smoking ban have underscored the paradoxical association of smoking with style.
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Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy, Former MAGA Darling, Learns Something About Politics
Why is anyone surprised that Ramaswamy is facing racial slurs from his fellow MAGA supporters? The adage "nobody is free until everyone is" needs to be paid more heed to make sense of this mayhem.
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Opinion | Blake Lively To Gisele Pelicot, The Illusion That Is Women's Safety
Womens lives are shattered by multiple metaphorical car crashes, and they mostly go unnoticed. If women demand safety, they are labelled as destructive, difficult, delusional or deranged, depending on what the flavour of the month is.
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Opinion | The Fall Of Damascus And Lessons In Liberalism For Delhi
The undermining of liberal values by liberals themselves, the ascent of conservative forces, the politics of exclusion, we have seen it all.
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Opinion: High Time Men In Military Accepted Women As Equal
Time and again, a harsh but obvious truth asserts itself - men cannot stand women. The latest example is the outgoing Corps Commander (17 Corps) Lt Gen Rajeev Puri's five-page letter to the Army Headquarters flagging his concerns about women.
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Opinion | Delhi's Air Pollution Situation Is Like A Bad Marriage
On a good day, such as today, the AQI reading in Delhi is 407. We are jubilant at the sickly sunshine trickling through the slightly dissipated smog. At least its not 1600.
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Opinion | Ground Zero, Pahalgam, And A Conundrum Of Pain In Kashmir
If Ground Zero succeeds in making even a single member of the audience revisit their presumptions and prejudices, as one of the characters does before the climax, it should be deemed a hit, despite the box office verdict.
-
Opinion: What Has JD Vance's India Visit Achieved?
Apart from the minor detail that the US is India's largest trading partner, there's this critical matter of matrimony.
-
Opinion | What Ambedkar's Raised Finger Is Really Trying To Tell You
Ambedkar's raised finger, though routinely vandalised in different parts of the country, keeps the hope alive against all hopes.
-
Opinion | Why Is Trump Invoking JFK? Hint: Russia
Now that the Trump administration is avowedly in favour of peace with Russia, invoking JFK's memory works in their favour.
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Opinion | Can India And China Ever Really 'Dance' Together?
China keeps insisting that India is not a significant security threat. Yet, reportedly, it has significantly amped up its surveillance capabilities over India.
-
Opinion | Trump-Zelensky Face-Off: Boys, Uninterrupted
What the world saw at the Oval Office was a performance that suited everyone involved. Or so they thought.
-
Opinion | Mo, Diversity, And The Indian Immigrant In The US
If an alien were to gain insights into the immigrant situation currently playing out in the US, the Netflix show Mo would act as a good gateway. Except, it might lead the alien to believe that there are no Indian immigrants, legal or illegal, in US
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Opinion | Trump's Second Coming: When American Anxiety Met The Fist
A casual chat with a healthcare aide working for one of the largest health service conglomerates in Pennsylvania reveals several of the anxieties that explain Trumps stellar comeback as the POTUS.
-
Opinion | Are You 'Pretending' To Work? It's Not Entirely Your Fault
Hiring people who appear to work or forcing people to appear to work are problems that are created by the heads of organisations, rarely by the hands.
-
Blog | Of Smoking, 'Style', And New Year's Resolutions
Headlines around the Milan smoking ban have underscored the paradoxical association of smoking with style.
-
Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy, Former MAGA Darling, Learns Something About Politics
Why is anyone surprised that Ramaswamy is facing racial slurs from his fellow MAGA supporters? The adage "nobody is free until everyone is" needs to be paid more heed to make sense of this mayhem.
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Opinion | Blake Lively To Gisele Pelicot, The Illusion That Is Women's Safety
Womens lives are shattered by multiple metaphorical car crashes, and they mostly go unnoticed. If women demand safety, they are labelled as destructive, difficult, delusional or deranged, depending on what the flavour of the month is.
-
Opinion | The Fall Of Damascus And Lessons In Liberalism For Delhi
The undermining of liberal values by liberals themselves, the ascent of conservative forces, the politics of exclusion, we have seen it all.
-
Opinion: High Time Men In Military Accepted Women As Equal
Time and again, a harsh but obvious truth asserts itself - men cannot stand women. The latest example is the outgoing Corps Commander (17 Corps) Lt Gen Rajeev Puri's five-page letter to the Army Headquarters flagging his concerns about women.
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Opinion | Delhi's Air Pollution Situation Is Like A Bad Marriage
On a good day, such as today, the AQI reading in Delhi is 407. We are jubilant at the sickly sunshine trickling through the slightly dissipated smog. At least its not 1600.
