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    Opinion - Page 4

    India must recalibrate its Pakistan policy as isolation strategy fails

    Seema Guha
    29 May 2026 7:00 PM IST

    With the muscular strategy hitting a dead end and Washington favouring Islamabad, the Modi government must find a way to pivot without looking weak at home

    Modis India must recalibrate its Pakistan policy as isolation strategy fails
    Opinion
    India’s Nepal challenge: From ‘neighbourhood first’ to strategic uncertainty
    Opinion

    India’s Nepal challenge: From ‘neighbourhood first’ to strategic uncertainty

    29 May 2026 10:00 AM IST
    The duplicity behind Trumps push to disarm Iran
    Opinion

    The duplicity behind Trump's push to disarm Iran

    28 May 2026 4:00 PM IST
    Congress needs introspection after avoiding a near fiasco in Kerala
    Opinion

    Winning a poll is only half the battle for Congress, as Kerala CM row showed

    26 May 2026 6:48 PM IST
    With Vijay, Satheesan at helm, Muslim representation moves from tokenism to power-sharing

    While North India corners its Muslims, Tamil Nadu gives them Cabinet seats

    26 May 2026 1:47 PM IST
    US-Iran conflict MOU to be signed

    US-Iran interim deal may be hailed, but imponderables loom

    25 May 2026 11:37 AM IST
    Delhi Gymkhana’s fall is the establishments final triumph over the English-speaking elite

    Delhi Gymkhana Club eviction: Bulldozing the ballroom

    25 May 2026 8:50 AM IST
    Why India’s crucial UNSC bid lost out to Meloni-Modis toffee diplomacy

    Between Toffee and Coffee, a missed chance for India’s UNSC bid?

    24 May 2026 5:24 PM IST
    PM Modi opponents have vanished

    Where have Modi’s rivals gone? The slow erosion of India’s Opposition

    24 May 2026 10:02 AM IST
    Great Nicobar islands

    Great Nicobar project: Strategic dream or ecological gamble?

    24 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Auqib Nabi Dar

    If Ranji excellence isn’t enough, what is the route to Team India today?

    21 May 2026 4:00 PM IST
    Sabarimala

    Preserving 'civilisation' shouldn't come at the cost of women's rights

    21 May 2026 6:20 AM IST
    Donald Trump, Xi Jinping

    Now, Trump looks at rival Xi to bail him out of Iran mess

    19 May 2026 10:00 AM IST
    From Basu’s warning to Bengal ballot: How Bangladesh turmoil fuelled BJP’s eastern rise

    From Basu’s warning to Bengal ballot: How Bangladesh turmoil fuelled BJP’s eastern rise

    19 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
    RSS idea to disenfranchise Muslims for rejecting UCC is cutting both ways

    No choice, no voice: Indian Muslims driven to both accept UCC and lose franchise

    Vivek Deshpande
    18 May 2026 9:00 AM IST

    MG Vaidya's advocacy in 2016 of conditionally taking away Muslims' right to vote is being turned into a chilling reality today by Modi government...

    How Suvendus BJP government in Bengal is appropriating Tagores legacy

    Why Suvendu's BJP govt in Bengal can never truly claim Rabindranath Tagore

    18 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
    India and Pakistan flags

    What Hosabale’s dialogue pitch means for India-Pakistan ties

    17 May 2026 11:00 AM IST
    Manipur killings

    Hostage logic, killing fields: How horizontal ethnic conflicts eclipse Northeast vertical struggles

    17 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
    Bengal heist: How BJP captured the state by hollowing out democracy

    Bengal heist: How BJP captured the state by hollowing out democracy

    13 May 2026 6:00 PM IST
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi with West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari

    TN, Kerala beyond BJP’s reach now, but for how long?

    13 May 2026 6:20 AM IST
    Vijays coalition government on thin ice

    Why Tamil Nadu’s new coalition government is standing on thin ice

    12 May 2026 1:35 PM IST
    Why PM Modis austerity plea undermines Indias stature on global stage

    Why PM Modi's 'austerity' plea undermines India's stature on global stage

    12 May 2026 12:20 PM IST
    PM Modi in West Bengal ahead of elections

    Yogi, Himanta or Suvendu: Who will succeed Modi?

    11 May 2026 10:46 PM IST
    Sir David Attenborough and the limits of his witness statement

    Attenborough sees the wound but misses who wielded the knife

    8 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
    UDF, Kerala Assembly Elections 2026

    Kerala polls: How secular consolidation defeated the Left's social engineering gambit

    8 May 2026 6:20 AM IST
    Will TMC rebellion, DMK ire help BJP push delimitation, other key bills?

    Opposition deficit, rather than BJP triumph, is the message

    4 May 2026 8:52 PM IST
    Umar Khalid event in Bengaluru the state of freedom of speech in India

    Rumpus at Umar Khalid book event shows fragile state of free speech in India

    3 May 2026 3:56 PM IST
    Protest in Manipur against bomb attack that killed two children

    Three years on, Manipur’s hope for peace is shaken amid fresh unrest

    3 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
    From Fan Frenzy to Political Reality – The Vijay TVK Test

    Vijay's political gamble: Big crowds, bigger questions

    29 April 2026 4:23 PM IST
    Amid a fuel crisis, the case for new energy service companies in India

    Amid a fuel crisis, the case for new energy service companies in India

    27 April 2026 6:19 PM IST
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