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Aakar Patel | Amid ‘Apathy’ Of The Vast Majority, ‘Intent’ Will Always Hold Upper Hand

Aakar Patel | Amid ‘Apathy’ Of The Vast Majority, ‘Intent’ Will Always...

To those who are new to this: What does the BJP’s ideology seek? It wants to persecute and harm minority Indians,...

30 Dec 2025 1:46 AM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Synchronise The AI Pace, Robotics, Population Fall

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Synchronise The AI Pace, Robotics, Population Fall

For half a century after the Second World War, ideology did fashion coordinated political action — the liberal, free...

30 Dec 2025 12:39 AM IST

Claude Arpi | Planet In Trouble: Climate Risks Are Ignored Amid Push for ‘Development’

Claude Arpi | Planet In Trouble: Climate Risks Are Ignored Amid Push...

On December 8, Japan’s Meteorological Agency announced that a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook northeastern...

29 Dec 2025 1:34 AM IST

Bharat Bhushan | 2025: The Year When The Opposition Lost Its Mojo

Bharat Bhushan | 2025: The Year When The Opposition Lost Its Mojo

The Congress’ failure in leading the Opposition alliance was partly because it was electorally irrelevant in key states,...

29 Dec 2025 12:45 AM IST

Devi Kar | Let’s Be Selective On ‘Facts’ We Ask Kids To Remember, Maybe Memorise

Devi Kar | Let’s Be Selective On ‘Facts’ We Ask Kids To Remember,...

Memorising is not at all a bad thing, if the purpose and application are sensible and meaningful. It is indeed beautiful...

28 Dec 2025 1:42 AM IST

Shreya Sen-Handley | Six Reasons Why 2025 Wasn’t A Total Disaster

Shreya Sen-Handley | Six Reasons Why 2025 Wasn’t A Total Disaster

But 2026, by its very name, deserves at least six bequests of hope from 2025, to give it something to build on. The six...

28 Dec 2025 1:22 AM IST

Manish Tewari | Too Big To Compete: How Duopolies Are Killing India’s Markets

Manish Tewari | Too Big To Compete: How Duopolies Are Killing India’s...

From aviation and e commerce, to digital payments and food delivery, duopolies have become the hidden architecture of...

28 Dec 2025 12:29 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Mumbai On Verge Of Being Bartered To Highest Bidder?

Shobhaa De | Mumbai On Verge Of Being Bartered To Highest Bidder?

The BJP and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are already in a celebratory mood, seeing the warring cousins on the...

27 Dec 2025 2:33 AM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | 2nd Open Letter to Usha Vance… (as yet only) 2nd Lady of the USA | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | 2nd Open Letter to Usha Vance… (as yet only)...

I speculate that the conversion of JD, perhaps influenced by your very perceptive and predictive self, to MAGA nonsense...

27 Dec 2025 2:24 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Gujarat Babus Get A Message And A Deadline

Dilip Cherian | Gujarat Babus Get A Message And A Deadline

On paper, this looks like routine governance, review meetings, status reports, and coordination memos. In reality, it...

26 Dec 2025 12:57 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Centre vs State: G-Ram-G Fresh Thorn in Torn Flesh

Shikha Mukerjee | Centre vs State: G-Ram-G Fresh Thorn in Torn Flesh

New G-RAM-G law shifts welfare burden to states and weakens rights-based employment

24 Dec 2025 11:30 PM IST

Bhopinder Singh | Bangladesh, Under Yunus, Appears To Be Sinking Rapidly Into Planned Chaos

Bhopinder Singh | Bangladesh, Under Yunus, Appears To Be Sinking...

Violence, extremism and historical revisionism threaten the nation’s fragile future

24 Dec 2025 11:04 PM IST