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REFLECTIONS | Modi, Trump & India’s Rocky American Saga

REFLECTIONS | Modi, Trump & India’s Rocky American Saga

India wasn’t an American priority and a meeting might have disappointed Indians fed on propaganda about this country...

6 Nov 2025 9:23 PM IST

Opinion| Why Cooperation, Not Fear, Must Drive the Future of Trade Ties With America

Opinion| Why Cooperation, Not Fear, Must Drive the Future of Trade...

India must uphold strategic autonomy amid US pressure, balancing cooperation with self-reliance and national interest.

6 Nov 2025 9:12 PM IST

Claude Arpi | Beijing’s Missing Generals: What Is Xi Jinping Up To?

Claude Arpi | Beijing’s Missing Generals: What Is Xi Jinping Up To?

A few days later, on September 17, Chairman Xi was seen in Beijing, when he met with representatives from various groups...

6 Nov 2025 12:16 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | SC Decision Spells End Of IPS ‘Glass Ceiling’ In Paramilitary Forces

Dilip Cherian | SC Decision Spells End Of IPS ‘Glass Ceiling’ In...

The Supreme Court’s latest refusal to review its May 2025 ruling, which ordered a phased, two-year reduction of IPS...

5 Nov 2025 11:51 PM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | The Battle For Bihar: Democracy Is Dead… Long Live Democracy!

Mohan Guruswamy | The Battle For Bihar: Democracy Is Dead… Long Live...

The democratic path depends most upon one human quality: restraint. From restraint flows the spirit of accommodation,...

4 Nov 2025 10:38 PM IST

Manash Ghosh | Yunus Bid For Silent Coup To Humiliate B’desh Army

Manash Ghosh | Yunus Bid For Silent Coup To Humiliate B’desh Army

Mr Yunus’ real objective is to raise an armed Islamic militia on the lines of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards, whose...

4 Nov 2025 10:03 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Why ‘Smart Cities’ Project Never Took Off In India, And Was Quietly Shelved

Aakar Patel | Why ‘Smart Cities’ Project Never Took Off In India, And...

The “Smart Cities” mission was set up with a concept note that said the aim was to make cities that would offer “decent...

3 Nov 2025 7:45 PM IST

Bharat Bhushan| Stalled J&K Statehood: Engineered Instability

Bharat Bhushan| Stalled J&K Statehood: Engineered Instability

Karl Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte observed that man makes history not “out of the whole cloth” but...

3 Nov 2025 7:26 PM IST

John J. Kennedy | Why Our Schools Need To Start Sex Education Sooner, Rather Than Later

John J. Kennedy | Why Our Schools Need To Start Sex Education Sooner,...

In 2009, a parliamentary committee led by M. Venkaiah Naidu even declared that sex education “pollutes young minds”

2 Nov 2025 10:25 PM IST

Manish Tewari | Global Shift In Mediation: Why West Can’t Call Shots

Manish Tewari | Global Shift In Mediation: Why West Can’t Call Shots

Today, a radical shift has occurred; European and Western actors are increasingly marginalised, while mediators are...

2 Nov 2025 9:50 PM IST

Shashi Warrier | You, I and AI In This Beautiful World

Shashi Warrier | You, I and AI In This Beautiful World

We had both become old and staid and I hoped he wouldn’t reminisce too much about the old days because Prita didn’t know...

2 Nov 2025 1:12 AM IST

K.C. Singh | Trump-Xi Interim Truce Narrows Strategic Space

K.C. Singh | Trump-Xi Interim Truce Narrows Strategic Space

The other one was the long-awaited meeting of the Chinese and US Presidents, which took place at an airbase near South...

2 Nov 2025 12:51 AM IST