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Blog | Of Smoking, 'Style', And New Year's Resolutions
Headlines around the Milan smoking ban have underscored the paradoxical association of smoking with style.
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Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy, Former MAGA Darling, Learns Something About Politics
Why is anyone surprised that Ramaswamy is facing racial slurs from his fellow MAGA supporters? The adage "nobody is free until everyone is" needs to be paid more heed to make sense of this mayhem.
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Opinion | Blake Lively To Gisele Pelicot, The Illusion That Is Women's Safety
Womens lives are shattered by multiple metaphorical car crashes, and they mostly go unnoticed. If women demand safety, they are labelled as destructive, difficult, delusional or deranged, depending on what the flavour of the month is.
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Opinion | The Fall Of Damascus And Lessons In Liberalism For Delhi
The undermining of liberal values by liberals themselves, the ascent of conservative forces, the politics of exclusion, we have seen it all.
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Opinion: High Time Men In Military Accepted Women As Equal
Time and again, a harsh but obvious truth asserts itself - men cannot stand women. The latest example is the outgoing Corps Commander (17 Corps) Lt Gen Rajeev Puri's five-page letter to the Army Headquarters flagging his concerns about women.
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Opinion | Delhi's Air Pollution Situation Is Like A Bad Marriage
On a good day, such as today, the AQI reading in Delhi is 407. We are jubilant at the sickly sunshine trickling through the slightly dissipated smog. At least its not 1600.
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Blog | How To Grieve During A Global Crisis? Leave It Untamed, Like Sandhya Mridul
I dont think about legacy. The only thing that I do is stay honest on an everyday basis. Maybe thats what creates a legacy of truth," Mridul says about her legacy as an artiste and now writer.
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Opinion | Why Did Kamala Harris Lose? Because Democrats Guilt-Tripped Americans
Kamala Harriss campaign raised and spent more money than Donald Trump, but what was the substance? The political messaging barely managed to escape the rhetoric of Save America from Trump.
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Opinion | Harris vs Trump: The Unbearable Absurdity Of US Presidential Polls
The US presidential election was once a lesson in how democracy asserts itself. In 2024, it has become something else: a glorified version of Hulk Hogan wrestling with his shirt.
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Opinion | Rohit Bal And The Grandiosity Of Grief
Designer Rohit Bal's growing cynicism around the fashion world went hand in hand with his growing commitment to creativity. Despite his health issues, he wanted to do more and more - like adding layers to his unisex skirts.
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Opinion | India And China: Let LEDs, Microchips Lead The Way
The path forward hinges on recognising the interdependence that trade fosters. As India and China navigate an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape, it's the microchips and the LEDs that will light up the negotiating tables.
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Opinion | India At BRICS And The Curious Case Of Iran
During the Modi-Pezeshkian bilateral, India was urged to play a more substantial role in the Middle East peace process. But what are New Delhis realistic options? Calling for peace does not usher in peace; arm-twisting the stakeholders does.
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Opinion | India-Canada Showdown: When Fiction Is As Important As Facts
What has compelled Canada to make public its investigations in the Nijjar assassination case and hold India responsible? Has there been a slight or a breach of trust, intended or otherwise, behind the scenes that a public show is to be put up?
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Blog | Ratan Tata's Last Weekend, In Goa: Seeing The Universe In A Grain of Sand
I happened to be the last journalist who witnessed Mr Tata living out his much-talked-about values of humility until his last breath, quite literally.
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Opinion | Jammu & Kashmir Shows The World Democracy Is Not An Optional Activity
The BJP may not feel warm and fuzzy about the assembly poll results, but New Delhi has all the reasons to rejoice. This is what 'normalcy', an oft-touted catchword of the current dispensation, looks and feels like.
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Opinion | You Got An iPhone, Now Think Of 'Envy Imperialism'
Apple's iPhone's rapid global penetration of the global mobile sector is incumbent mainly not so much on the end users marvelling at its technological leaps but on their ability to flaunt it as a possession.
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Opinion | New Delhi's Air Quality Can Choke Its Geopolitical Influence
Already, India is being decried as one of the world's most significant polluters. Our prickliness and denunciation of such proclamations cannot mitigate their reputational damage.
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Opinion | Why Netflix's Kaos Is The Perfect Primer On Today's Geopolitics
A present-day adaptation of several stories from Greek mythology, this new Netflix series is being binge-watched for all the obvious reasons.
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Opinion | Trump-Harris Debate: It's About Entertainment, Stupid
The fact that both Trump and Harris were unable to offer any policy framework during the debate and mounted only personal attacks against each other leaves a discerning audience with a sense of impending doom.
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Blog | 'Don't Do Drama': My Story Of Online Sexual Harassment Isn't Mine Alone
Women are made to watch over their shoulders even more in digital space. I have written multiple times about the intellectual moorings of this trend of making women invisible by either blocking women's entry to, or bullying them out of public spaces.
