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Syed Ata Hasnain | 2025: Conflicts Unresolved Amidst Global Security Drift

Syed Ata Hasnain | 2025: Conflicts Unresolved Amidst Global Security...

One of the clearest lessons of 2025 was that having military power is not enough. What matters is when it is used, where...

30 Dec 2025 10:56 PM IST

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 1:45 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 12:38 AM IST

In this photo provided by World Vision Solomon Islands, a house in Kirakira, Solomon Islands, is damaged after an earthquake. (Photo: AP)

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 1:32 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 2:32 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 2:23 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 12:56 AM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | Why Is India Still So Dirty And Polluted?

Mohan Guruswamy | Why Is India Still So Dirty And Polluted?

The Ashok Mehta committee in 1977 was tasked with evolving an effective and decentralised system of development...

26 Dec 2025 12:42 AM IST