Mir Altaf

When communal violence reduced his home and manuscripts to ashes, Bashir Badr could have become a poet of grievance. Instead, he became a voice of reconciliation, br...

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Rajeev Narayan

There are moments in the life of every rising nation when noise threatens to overwhelm perspective. Markets fall. Currencies weaken. Headlines darken. Commentat...

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Pallab Bhattacharyya

In the annals of rural development in India, few initiatives have attempted to challenge gender stereotypes as boldly as Assam’s Lakhimi Mistri prog...

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Tariq Mansoor

These days, news space is saturated with news about controversies on the examination systems – from cancellation of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2026 to disruptions in Common Univ...

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Aditi Bhaduri 

Recently, in Delhi, where he had come to attend the BRICS Foreign Ministers' meet, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is ready to rest...

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Rajeev Narayan

This week, the world watched a humble toffee become geopolitics. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Mel...

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Mir Altaf

A few months ago, during an informal interaction with students in Kashmir, a teacher asked: What inf...

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Zafar Sareshwala

A large section of Hindus believe that consuming beef is a virtuous act for Muslims. This has no basis. Islam never says that a believer must ear beef. Eating...

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Aditi Bhaduri 

A drone strike caused a fire at a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, officials in Abu Dhabi said yesterday, Sunday, 17th May. This comes at a...

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Rajeev Narayan

There are moments in a nation’s journey when economics ceases to be the preserve of policymakers and enters everyday life. Not through taxation or regulat...

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Rajeev Narayan

India is no longer navigating the global order; It is rewriting its rules. For long, New Delhi’s foreign policy was caricatured as hesitant, overly ca...

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New Delhi

The election outcome has upended the established political calculations in West Bengal. The BJP’s resounding victory was not confined to its traditional strong...

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Amir Suhail Wani

The Heart of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a deeply reflective work that seeks to recover the spiritual and intellectual essence of Islam when the religion ...

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Rajib Handique

From the outset, the electoral contest in Assam was widely seen as a cakewalk for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA. It was an unmistakably asymme...

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Sushma Ramachandran

The global economy continues to face severe disruptions due to the US–Israel conflict wit...

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