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Bharat Bhushan | Vande Mataram Won’t Hide Temple Graft, Gen Z Revolt

Bharat Bhushan | Vande Mataram Won’t Hide Temple Graft, Gen Z Revolt

Nationalism may struggle to eclipse temple accountability, jobs and Gen Z’s exam frustrations

23 Aug 2026 10:11 PM IST

Manish Tewari | Pakistan and Its Quagmire of Alliances

Manish Tewari | Pakistan and Its Quagmire of Alliances

Pakistan, for all its fascination with West Asia, remains fundamentally divorced from the region’s core power dynamics.

22 Aug 2026 7:49 PM IST

Bhopinder Singh | Our Republic of Perpetual Manufactured Outrage

Bhopinder Singh | Our Republic of Perpetual Manufactured Outrage

Social media has turbocharged this process.

22 Aug 2026 7:47 PM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Hear This! Vinyl Is Back, and Music Is Cool Again!

Ranjona Banerji | Hear This! Vinyl Is Back, and Music Is Cool Again!

But it was mind-blowing, even if it was simple.

22 Aug 2026 7:43 PM IST

Shobhaa De | Politics Changed; ‘Gen G’ Must Step Up, Or Go Home

Shobhaa De | Politics Changed; ‘Gen G’ Must Step Up, Or Go Home

Now that the sound barrier has been boldly breached, not just by Gen Z but Gen Alpha as well… we can safely assume...

22 Aug 2026 12:46 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Nathan Cofnas, Race-realist Who Led Witch-hunt Against Jason Arday

Farrukh Dhondy | Nathan Cofnas, Race-realist Who Led Witch-hunt...

Cofnas is an unabashed racist. He has made no secret of his view that black individuals “can only excel at sport and...

21 Aug 2026 11:05 PM IST

John J. Kennedy | Tech Not Enough; For Effective Exam Reform, Strengthen Capacity of NTA

John J. Kennedy | Tech Not Enough; For Effective Exam Reform,...

The public administration has always distinguished between good policy design and the organisational capacity needed to...

21 Aug 2026 1:56 AM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Time To Dispel The Myths Over Liberalisation Of 1991

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Time To Dispel The Myths Over...

In 1996, five years after Annus Mirabilis, economists Amit Bhaduri and Deepak Nayyar in their book titled The...

21 Aug 2026 1:42 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Tata at Crossroads: Noel or Still Chandrasekaran?

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Tata at Crossroads: Noel or Still...

Tata succession race puts family ties, governance and leadership under scrutiny

20 Aug 2026 12:27 AM IST

M.P. Nathanael | Can Police Use of Pellet Guns Be Fully Banned?

M.P. Nathanael | Can Police Use of Pellet Guns Be Fully Banned?

Five injured protesters revive concerns over the risks of pellet guns and non-lethal alternatives

20 Aug 2026 12:26 AM IST

K.C. Singh | Iran War Stymieing New India-Taliban Relations

K.C. Singh | Iran War Stymieing New India-Taliban Relations

India then saw the Taliban as a Pakistani ally, if not proxy. Besides Pakistan, only two countries then recognised the...

19 Aug 2026 12:40 AM IST

Anil Tyagi | How the Capital Panic-planned For The Great Cockroach Bite

Anil Tyagi | How the Capital Panic-planned For The Great Cockroach...

At the American Embassy, five to six kilometres from South Block, cables flickered. An alert went out for American...

19 Aug 2026 12:24 AM IST