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Saeed Naqvi | West Will Lose Its Power, But Will Leave Huge Mess Before Giving Up

Saeed Naqvi | West Will Lose Its Power, But Will Leave Huge Mess...

President James Monroe must have turned in his grave as the Monroe Doctrine, named after him, is desecrated by outside...

28 Sept 2025 10:53 PM IST

Anita Katyal | Rahul-Tejashwi Friendship Intact; Naveen Goes For Some Retail Therapy

Anita Katyal | Rahul-Tejashwi Friendship Intact; Naveen Goes For Some...

Jammu and Kashmir has faced near-total disruption for weeks on end but little is known about it to the rest of the...

28 Sept 2025 12:11 AM IST

Pavan K. Varma | India’s Democracy No Match To Nepalese Fragile Governance

Pavan K. Varma | India’s Democracy No Match To Nepalese Fragile...

In recent years, Indian public discourse has been increasingly hijacked by a troubling binary: Either one is an...

28 Sept 2025 12:03 AM IST

Shreya Sen-Handley | Can A Storm Herald The Good Winds Of Change?

Shreya Sen-Handley | Can A Storm Herald The Good Winds Of Change?

Britain, after all, is painfully conservative with monikers. Royal names are particular favourites, with ‘George’...

27 Sept 2025 11:20 PM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Looking Back At Arundhati Roy’s Role In The Saga of Bandit Queen | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Looking Back At Arundhati Roy’s Role In The...

Soon after, Michael Grade, Channel 4’s boss, called me to his office and showed me a petition signed by Ms Roy and about...

27 Sept 2025 12:28 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Trump Taking US Towards A New Race-cum-civil war?

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Trump Taking US Towards A New Race-cum-civil...

The foot soldiers of the Trump-inspired “Make America Great Again” movement, almost all of whom hold extreme rightist...

27 Sept 2025 12:13 AM IST

K.C. Singh | Trump Assaults UN, Targets All, Fuels Global Uncertainty

K.C. Singh | Trump Assaults UN, Targets All, Fuels Global Uncertainty

President Trump’s 56-minute address was meandering, critical of the dysfunctional UN escalator and teleprompter, besides...

26 Sept 2025 12:40 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Rajesh Agrawal Leading India’s High-stakes Trade Talks With US

Dilip Cherian | Rajesh Agrawal Leading India’s High-stakes Trade ...

Citing India's imports of oil from Russia, the US imposed 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods and is now seeking greater...

26 Sept 2025 12:26 AM IST

Anusuya Mohanty Chatterjee | How I Got Digitally Disenfranchised in Our Democracy

Anusuya Mohanty Chatterjee | How I Got Digitally Disenfranchised in...

I am a law-abiding citizen of India, with all the paperwork to prove it. Yet today, I do not exist in the eyes of our...

24 Sept 2025 9:50 PM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump Targets India: End to the Biggest Brain Drain?

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump Targets India: End to the Biggest Brain...

If US President Donald Trump’s brutally sudden fiat isn’t just a bargaining ploy, it has cut short what could have...

24 Sept 2025 9:38 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Trump’s H-1B Shock Jolt To Indian Techie Dreams

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Trump’s H-1B Shock Jolt To Indian Techie Dreams

Of the 1.5 million Indian engineers graduating every year, only a miniscule 0.25 per cent can avail of this opportunity...

23 Sept 2025 11:13 PM IST

Ruchira Gupta | Lesson of Nepal’s Gen Z Revolt: Can A Small Democracy Be Kept ‘Clean’?

Ruchira Gupta | Lesson of Nepal’s Gen Z Revolt: Can A Small Democracy...

What followed was both familiar and new. Familiar, as students again poured into the streets, claiming civic space that...

23 Sept 2025 11:00 PM IST