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    Opinion - Page 3

    India forgot its idealistic roots when it broke bread with the Taliban

    Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
    19 Oct 2025 4:58 PM IST

    India’s Afghan outreach as a counter to Pak, clashes with its spirit of solidarity with beleaguered people of other nations; points to future where empathy will vanish, transactional ties will take...

    Amir Khan Muttaqi
    Opinion
    climate change, flood,
    Opinion

    India’s cities are drowning in a crisis of governance, not rains

    19 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Xi Modi and Trump are involved in a complex trade conflict
    Opinion

    Clash of titans: How US-China economic cold war is squeezing India

    18 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Narendra Modi, Donald Trump
    Opinion

    Modi’s ‘promise’ to Trump, an evasive MEA, and a fresh opportunity for Rahul

    17 Oct 2025 6:36 AM IST
    Taliban 2.0’s U-turn in ties with India, Pak, a game-changing moment for South Asia

    Taliban 2.0’s U-turn in ties with India, Pak, a game-changing moment for South Asia

    16 Oct 2025 2:55 PM IST
    Nepal Gen Z protest social media ban

    Spectre of student-led revolution: Why India must focus on education quality

    16 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    India has to cement Taliban ties as China advances, Pak reels back in Afghanistan

    India has to cement Taliban ties as China advances, Pak reels back in Afghanistan

    15 Oct 2025 6:26 PM IST
    RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Prime Minister Narendra Modi

    Decoding Bhagwat’s Vijayadashami speech: A wordy declaration of truce with Modi

    14 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Decades-old Maoist movement faces oblivion as BJP

    Why decades-old Maoist movement faces oblivion as its last stronghold is set to fall

    13 Oct 2025 9:03 AM IST
    US President Donald Trump

    Why Donald Trump could still deserve a Nobel Peace Prize

    11 Oct 2025 6:25 PM IST
    Benjamin Netanyahu

    Netanyahu can’t win Gaza war by flexing military muscle; two-state policy only fix

    11 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Gaza

    Israeli destruction of Gaza shatters myth of ‘modern, progressive’ world

    8 Oct 2025 11:04 AM IST
    Bihar election

    From Champaran to SIR to vote chori, Bihar’s electoral soul at stake

    7 Oct 2025 5:19 PM IST
    Ladakh protest in Delhi Jantar Mantar

    In Ladakh, deploy subsidiarity, not repression

    7 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Modi and Bhagwat

    RSS centenary celebrations: Modi, Bhagwat rely on duplicitous rhetoric, gloss over real issues

    Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
    5 Oct 2025 2:48 PM IST

    While patting each other’s backs and waxing eloquent on Hindu identity, PM Modi, RSS chief give selective definitions of bigotry, unity while ignoring...

    Muhammad Yunus

    What’s behind Yunus’ anti-India tirade? Fear of Awami revival, power goals

    3 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    RSS completes 100 years

    RSS at 100: Hindutva is an ideological camouflage for its Brahminical core

    2 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Mahatma Gandhi was unique in India’s Independence struggle because he was not just a politician or strategist

    How Gandhi used tact, tradition to unite elites, masses for freedom struggle

    1 Oct 2025 5:41 PM IST
    Why Modi Asia Cup post knocks sportsmanship, military valour

    How Hindu Right ends up justifying Muslim communalism

    1 Oct 2025 3:24 PM IST
    Kitchen sinks to Gaza: How two rogue powers are reshaping the world order

    Kitchen sinks to Gaza: How two rogue powers are reshaping the world order

    1 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Why Modi Asia Cup post knocks sportsmanship, military valour

    Why Modi's Asia Cup post undermines sportsmanship and military valour

    30 Sept 2025 12:49 PM IST
    TVK chief Vijay postpones Karur visit as CBI probe begins into stampede tragedy

    Karur stampede exposes ugly face of roadshow politics; is anyone listening?

    29 Sept 2025 5:36 PM IST
    India crowd youth

    India’s youth bulge risks turning into a demographic time bomb

    28 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Donald Trump tariff

    Why tariffs won’t make America a manufacturing giant again

    27 Sept 2025 9:06 PM IST
    Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump

    Trump’s inability, Putin’s intransigence take world to brink of bigger war

    27 Sept 2025 6:44 AM IST
    According to the draft rules, every institution will establish an Equal Opportunity Centre headed by an equity committee with members consisting of women, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe who are faculty members

    Karnataka caste survey, and the fear of small numbers

    26 Sept 2025 2:57 PM IST
    Yogi Adityanath

    Why is Yogi playing caste and communal cards simultaneously?

    24 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST
    home construction

    How to protect home buyers? Stop sale of homes before they are built

    22 Sept 2025 5:12 PM IST
    Modi Trump

    A $100,000 visa fee and a failed friendship: India’s H-1B reckoning

    22 Sept 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Pak Saudi deal

    Pak-Saudi defence pact, more a bark than a bite

    19 Sept 2025 2:13 PM IST
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