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Chop and Change

India should not align itself with the American camp. It should continue to assert its strategic autonomy

7 min  |

September 21, 2025
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Has the Maharaja Stopped Dancing?

To his credit, Rajinikanth made the transition from cinema that was made for single screens and their unruly audiences to new-age films in which we see his young, VFX version

7 min  |

September 21, 2025
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Two to Tango

Keeping relations on an even keel with China is important for India's economic growth, but joining a world order led by it would be suicidal

5 min  |

September 21, 2025

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Multipolarity or a New Bipolarity?

Even as Beijing continues to challenge conventional notions of democracy and human rights, America will have to decide what it stands for and what it wants from the world

7 min  |

September 21, 2025
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You Have no Enemies, you say?

India’s interests lie in a closer strategic partnership with the US, just as any American administration cannot ignore the world’s most populous country that is in a critical geography and has economic and military potential

4 min  |

September 21, 2025
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How Fragile we are

Tariff turbulence and India's pursuit of strategic autonomy

9 min  |

September 21, 2025

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Chasing a Chimera

India, China and Russia as well as most of the developing countries are committed to a multipolar world where policies are not decided by just one or two countries, but there are several power poles

7 min  |

September 21, 2025
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Behind the Mask

There is a pressing need to map the gaps between branding claims and effective achievements on the foreign policy front, based on the parameters set by the Modi government itself

7 min  |

September 21, 2025
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The Tianjin Trifecta

Is India the face of the forces directed by Russia in a new, turbocharged geopolitical vehicle designed and built by China?

7 min  |

September 21, 2025
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Lyrically Yours

A remarkable travelogue across Indian cities through the years

5 min  |

September 11, 2025
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Many Riders in the Bihar Caravan

Fear of disenfranchisement due to the revision of electoral rolls is driving large numbers to the INDIA bloc's Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar, but that's no guarantee of a spike in anti-BJP votes

5 min  |

September 11, 2025
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A Chink in the Edifice

Democracy itself, to a great extent, is allowed to rest in the hands of the Election Commission

5 min  |

September 11, 2025
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Not by the Textbook

The new school textbooks in India have turned into walls that stand between students and the world of reality and truth

5 min  |

September 11, 2025
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Staking Claim to the First Spot

Letters to the Election Commission of India, election petitions in court and Right to Information queries—the opposition bloc has done it all since the Maharashtra Assembly polls last year

5 min  |

September 11, 2025
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Authentic Memory

The growing silence between father and son becomes almost a theme in its own right in Jey Sushil's Dukh Ki Duniya Bhitar Hai

5 min  |

September 11, 2025
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Politics of Slogans

From high-profile slogans to structural reforms, India's Opposition finds it difficult to sustain outrage over corruption

5 min  |

September 11, 2025

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Captured on Camera

In the 1980s and 90s, booth capturing in Bihar was a threat to democratic functioning. Men with their faces covered and holding guns told people their votes had been cast. Now, voters in Bihar feel the Special Intensive Revision is another way to disenfranchise them

8 min  |

September 11, 2025

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Translating Resistance

The translation of Kannada writer and activist Banu Mushtaq's work is not only an aesthetic act; it is a public intervention

5 min  |

September 11, 2025

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Keep the Faith

Religion and mental health need not be adversaries. One speaks the language of spirit, the other of science. But both seek the same thing: healing

6 min  |

September 11, 2025
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Ganga-Cauvery Rhythm

At first glance, it seemed like a meme.

1 min  |

September 11, 2025
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Attack on Past & Present

School textbooks present a version of history at odds with Kashmiri recollections

6 min  |

September 11, 2025
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The Iron in the Institutions

The Election Commission failing the test of democracy is a bad turn for our Republic

5 min  |

September 11, 2025
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How Free and Fair?

By presiding over processes that narrow democratic participation, the Election Commission of India betrays the very idea of universal adult suffrage

4 min  |

September 11, 2025
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“Un”suitable Histories

What is the impact of distortions in historical textbooks on institutions?

4 min  |

September 11, 2025
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Mahadevapura: Where Strangers Came to the Rolls

At ground zero of Rahul Gandhi's campaign against 'vote theft', electoral rolls have long been an arena of political contest and controversy

6 min  |

September 11, 2025
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A Class of Controversies

The NCERT has released new modules titled 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day' for Classes VI to XII, stirring debate

5 min  |

September 11, 2025
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As Goalposts Shift

The Opposition accuses the Election Commission of furthering the ruling establishment's political agenda. The ECI dismisses the charges as politically motivated

7 min  |

September 11, 2025
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A Dulling of Memory

Books live beyond bans. In the digital age, measures like banning books are not only moot, but also reiterate that the state continues to fear ideas

5 min  |

September 11, 2025
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The Penalty Checkmate

India can possibly absorb the 25 per cent tariff; our economic growth will not be materially affected. All eyes are now on the 25 per cent penalty tariff

6 min  |

September 01, 2025

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The Fable of Free Trade

The BJP regime's foreign policy successes have come unstuck with Trump's announcement of fifty per cent tariffs

6 min  |

September 01, 2025