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    TK Arun
    About the AuthorTK Arun
    TK Arun is a senior journalist based in Delhi.
      Mamdani wins, and his supporters cheer in New York
      Opinion

      Why Mamdani’s New York win resonates well beyond the City — and the US

      6 Nov 2025 3:03 PM IST
      US President Donald Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping
      Opinion

      Trump talks of G2, but dual global hegemony is whimsy for now

      31 Oct 2025 6:53 PM IST
      Oil tanker
      Opinion

      India should keep buying Russian oil, but not from Rosneft and Lukoil

      25 Oct 2025 5:13 PM IST
      US President Donald Trump
      Opinion

      Why Donald Trump could still deserve a Nobel Peace Prize

      11 Oct 2025 6:25 PM IST
      Ladakh protest in Delhi Jantar Mantar
      Opinion

      In Ladakh, deploy subsidiarity, not repression

      7 Oct 2025 6:30 AM IST
      Donald Trump tariff
      Opinion

      Why tariffs won’t make America a manufacturing giant again

      27 Sept 2025 9:06 PM IST
      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
      US sanctions on Russian oil companies
      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
      Supreme Court
      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
      Make English ubiquitous for it to shed its halo of power and privilege
      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
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