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Manish Tewari | Resilient Iran Changes Mideast Security Game

Manish Tewari | Resilient Iran Changes Mideast Security Game

An Interim Leadership Council was constituted within days. Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded his father with the backing of the...

25 July 2026 10:17 PM IST

Living Memorials: Love Out Loud, Now

Living Memorials: Love Out Loud, Now

Leaving my children behind in England, in the throes of their life-defining board exams, I flew to Kolkata to assist...

25 July 2026 9:22 PM IST

Shobhaa De | When India’s Pest Control Failed To Kill Desi Roaches

Shobhaa De | When India’s Pest Control Failed To Kill Desi Roaches

India’s youth power, led by the CJP, caught the government off guard and refused to back down

24 July 2026 9:17 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | A Stormy Reign Ahead for Andy As ‘King of the North’ Crowned

Farrukh Dhondy | A Stormy Reign Ahead for Andy As ‘King of the North’...

From devolution and defence to Trump, net zero and Reform, Burnham’s promises face reality

24 July 2026 8:59 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | The File Comes Full Circle: Will Central Secretariat Club Manage To Survive?

Dilip Cherian | The File Comes Full Circle: Will Central Secretariat...

For decades, the Central Secretariat Club has been woven into the culture of the Central bureaucracy, serving both...

24 July 2026 2:43 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | How Dhaka-Beijing-Pak Axis Poses Threat to Delhi

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | How Dhaka-Beijing-Pak Axis Poses Threat to...

In true Nehruvian style, New Delhi walked that extra mile to “improve” India-China ties, reminiscent of the “Hindi-Chini...

24 July 2026 2:28 AM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India-US FTA: Ticking The Boxes, Or Boost To Growth?

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India-US FTA: Ticking The Boxes, Or Boost To...

There are two streams of opinion. The first is that putting in place a trade deal is like installing a rail track....

23 July 2026 1:27 AM IST

Bhopinder Singh | Why Wangchuk & Leaders On India’s Periphery Have To Face A ‘Loyalty’ Test

Bhopinder Singh | Why Wangchuk & Leaders On India’s Periphery Have To...

For the State, the borderland identities can appear as potential vulnerabilities. For many communities living there,...

22 July 2026 11:42 PM IST

M.P. Nathanael | Custodial Deaths: A Growing Problem For Law-enforcing Agencies In India

M.P. Nathanael | Custodial Deaths: A Growing Problem For Law-enforcing...

R. Akash Delison, a Dalit youth, was arrested on March 5 for attempted murder by the Manamadurai police station in Tamil...

22 July 2026 1:08 AM IST

REFLECTIONS | Will Burnham, As PM, End ‘Roller-coaster’ UK Politics? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Will Burnham, As PM, End ‘Roller-coaster’ UK Politics?...

All this underlines Britain’s need for a massive building programme. Some 134,000 households, comprising 350,000 people,...

22 July 2026 12:11 AM IST

Shobha Sengupta | Rise Of The Book Club

Shobha Sengupta | Rise Of The Book Club

The US has an estimated five million book club members. India’s numbers are rising, too

21 July 2026 5:59 PM IST

Aakar Patel | The Lessons That India Learns As Wangchuk’s Fast Scuttled By Govt

Aakar Patel | The Lessons That India Learns As Wangchuk’s Fast...

This year the government was compelled to accept that there was corruption in the matter and it cancelled the exam,...

21 July 2026 1:24 AM IST