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    TK Arun
    About the AuthorTK Arun
    TK Arun is a senior journalist based in Delhi.
      Donald Trump tariff
      Opinion

      Why tariffs won’t make America a manufacturing giant again

      27 Sept 2025 9:06 PM IST
      Real estate home construction
      Opinion

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

      22 Sept 2025 5:12 PM IST
      Data centres
      Opinion

      Why data centre industry doesn’t need any tax holiday

      16 Sept 2025 6:20 AM IST
      India is up against a diplomatic and economic challenge while dealing with the USs steep tariffs imposed for buying crude oil from Russia.
      Opinion

      A second chance from Trump? Embrace it with caution

      10 Sept 2025 4:35 PM IST
      GST revision
      Opinion

      GST reform shows how indirect taxes can be made even more indirect

      4 Sept 2025 3:40 PM IST
      2024 polls, BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, West Bengal,Lok Sabha polls
      Opinion

      Why 130th Constitution Amendment Bill reeks of a red herring

      25 Aug 2025 4:02 PM IST
      Effective September 22, Goods and Services Tax (GST) has become a two-tier structure of 5 and 18 per cent
      Opinion

      Spotlight on prospective GST rate cuts pushes current sales into the dark

      20 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST
      Onus is on EC to prove voter ineligibility, not the citizen
      Opinion

      Onus is on EC to prove voter ineligibility, not the citizen

      14 Aug 2025 6:09 PM IST
      SC to hear plea on sexually explicit content on OTT, social media on April 28
      Opinion

      Vote theft controversy: Why the Supreme Court must step in

      13 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST
      India-US trade deal
      Opinion

      Why India should stand up to Trump, emerge a better economy

      31 July 2025 7:35 AM IST
      Bihar SIR
      Opinion

      Bihar electoral roll revision: Elitist and arbitrary, SIR!

      26 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
      Trump always chickens out T-shirt
      Opinion

      Why America's trading partners should wait for Trump to chicken out

      18 July 2025 3:14 PM IST
      Why World Banks claim of declining inequality in India seems ludicrous
      Opinion

      Why World Bank's claim of declining inequality in India seems ludicrous

      7 July 2025 6:30 PM IST
      English in Indian schools
      Opinion

      Make English ubiquitous for it to shed its halo of power and privilege

      30 Jun 2025 6:30 AM IST
      The multiple casualties of US attack on Iran
      Opinion

      The multiple casualties of US attack on Iran

      22 Jun 2025 6:19 PM IST
      Israel-Iran war
      Opinion

      West’s domination of the rest at the core of Israel’s attack on Iran

      17 Jun 2025 6:30 AM IST
      Under Modi Raj, economy has suffered structural retrogression, lost dynamism
      The Federal Special

      Under Modi Raj, economy has suffered structural retrogression, lost dynamism

      9 Jun 2025 7:52 AM IST
      cartoonist EP Unny
      Opinion

      Cartoonists: Putting art to the practice of everyday resistance

      26 May 2025 2:42 PM IST
      A comment on the Presidential reference
      Opinion

      A presidential reference too low

      19 May 2025 1:46 PM IST
      KBC hosts Sofiya Qureshi, Vyomika Singh for Independence day, sparks row
      Opinion

      When Operation Sindoor exposed the dysfunction of Hindutva

      15 May 2025 1:39 PM IST
      Operation Sindoor pahalgam terror attack
      Opinion

      Discredit Pak army, don’t push people so hard that they rally around it

      10 May 2025 2:11 PM IST
      For India, a dark lesson from an Iberian blackout
      Opinion

      For India, a dark lesson from an Iberian blackout

      1 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
      trade deficit
      Opinion

      Much ado about India’s trade deficit with China

      21 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
      Piyush Goyal
      Opinion

      Mr Piyush Goyal, what Indian startups have achieved is despite the system

      8 April 2025 3:55 PM IST
      President Trump, PM Modi
      Opinion

      Why retaliatory tariffs on US do not make sense for India

      3 April 2025 4:16 PM IST
      Stalin DKS Pinarayi
      Opinion

      Call for delimitation freeze is fair, but here is what South should realise

      24 March 2025 6:30 AM IST
      Russia-Ukraine war
      Opinion

      What Ukraine deal highlights: Saudi Arabia’s new image and Russia’s old grouse

      16 March 2025 6:30 AM IST
      Indian scripts
      Opinion

      Hindi will spread on its own if people stop pushing it down reluctant throats

      8 March 2025 6:30 AM IST
      AI and students
      Opinion

      Use AI to make Indian youth its wielders rather than its victims

      25 Feb 2025 6:30 AM IST
      India, US, Europe, China, Munich Security Conference
      Opinion

      What is bad news for Europe could spell geopolitical cheer for India

      17 Feb 2025 5:52 PM IST
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