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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Air India’s Black Thursday: Many Questions to Answer

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Air India’s Black Thursday: Many Questions to...

Any crash of this magnitude, avoidable or unavoidable, is a gross flight safety failure of/by the airline, in this case...

16 Jun 2025 9:56 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Will a Transactional, Opportunistic Foreign Policy Doctrine Help India, or Damage It?

Aakar Patel | Will a Transactional, Opportunistic Foreign Policy...

The manifestoes of the BJP from the very beginning, in its Jan Sangh avatar in the 1950s, have little to offer in terms...

16 Jun 2025 9:54 PM IST

Sunil Gatade | After Op Sindoor: Will BJP’s Heady Cocktail Work This Time For Modi?

Sunil Gatade | After Op Sindoor: Will BJP’s Heady Cocktail Work This...

Any action against Pakistan is generally a sure-shot winner for the BJP, which has always thrived on emotional issues....

15 Jun 2025 10:44 PM IST

Manish Tewari | India, Pakistan No Longer Hyphenated In World Eye

Manish Tewari | India, Pakistan No Longer Hyphenated In World Eye

The larger point, however, is that Pakistan, because of its state sponsorship of terror, has created ungoverned spaces...

15 Jun 2025 10:35 PM IST

John J. Kennedy | Rebuilding Trust In Public Education: How To Stop Drift To Private Schools

John J. Kennedy | Rebuilding Trust In Public Education: How To Stop...

Teacher availability and quality also play a critical role. Government schools face issues like teacher absenteeism,...

15 Jun 2025 1:27 AM IST

K.C. Singh | Israel-Iran Feud: India’s ‘Tilt’ Weakens Peace Role

K.C. Singh | Israel-Iran Feud: India’s ‘Tilt’ Weakens Peace Role

According to the New York Times, this assessment led to Iran becoming smug -- that Israel was unlikely to attack while...

15 Jun 2025 12:43 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Why I’d Rather Live In The Global South

Ranjona Banerji | Why I’d Rather Live In The Global South

But we are the brown and black people, hence South. It is never clear to me where the Chinese stand on this, because...

15 Jun 2025 12:31 AM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Uncertainty Of Monsoon Continues To Haunt India

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Uncertainty Of Monsoon Continues To Haunt...

Agriculture is a key factor in the growth rate of the economy. The Economic Survey 2023-24 noted that agriculture...

14 Jun 2025 12:14 AM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | The Elon-Donald Comic Soap Opera: Who’ll End On Top? Amid UK Tussle… | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | The Elon-Donald Comic Soap Opera: Who’ll End...

How “rising” is this political party? One is tempted to call it extreme right-wing, with its anti-immigrant rhetoric,...

14 Jun 2025 12:07 AM IST

Pradeep S. Mehta | Despite Pakistani Army Provocation, Communal Amity Prevailed In India

Pradeep S. Mehta | Despite Pakistani Army Provocation, Communal Amity...

Unlike Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, Muslims in the Indian subcontinent have mainly Arabic and Persian names....

12 Jun 2025 11:36 PM IST

Claude Arpi | A New Life For Nalanda: Reviving Its Old Glory?

Claude Arpi | A New Life For Nalanda: Reviving Its Old Glory?

A place like the Vulture Peak seems to have preserved the peace and serenity that a man captured more than 2,500 years...

12 Jun 2025 10:52 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | Planes, Trains & PMS: Ashwani Lohani’s Career Comes Full Circle

Dilip Cherian | Planes, Trains & PMS: Ashwani Lohani’s Career Comes...

Ashwani Lohani to head PM Museum, ending a career that spans trains, planes, and politics

11 Jun 2025 11:07 PM IST