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Opinion | <i>IC 814</i> Row: What's In A Name? Just A Reason To Outrage

Opinion | IC 814 Row: What's In A Name? Just A Reason To Outrage

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday September 04, 2024

What truly merits outrage is how the systems disallowed a timely follow-up on multiple intelligence warnings.

Blog | Why Do You Think Your Dog Needs You? Because You're Selfish

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday August 28, 2024

We need dogs to remind ourselves of our potential. Dogs teach us how to be better versions of ourselves. Therapy dogs work because they dissipate the human urge to navel-gaze

Opinion | The Realism We Are Missing In Modi's Ukraine Trip

Nishtha Gautam | Saturday August 24, 2024

By maintaining its stance of strategic neutrality, India is securing self-interest-driven allies in Europe and Asia without the overlordship of the US.

Opinion | Trump, Musk, And The Importance Of 'Exaggeration' In Storytelling

Nishtha Gautam | Friday August 16, 2024

Trump's conversation with Musk needs to be seen not as a "rambling" one which has significantly undermined his presidential prospects but as a tested strategy aimed at his constituents and swing voters.

Opinion | Vinesh Phogat, The Darned Woman Athlete Taking Our Breath Away

Nishtha Gautam | Thursday August 08, 2024

Phogat will soon be forgotten. She won't appear on India's list of Olympic medallists' and nobody will care for what she went through. Spectacles, as stated earlier, are important to engage fickle collective memory.

Opinion | Sheikh Hasina: When The Hunted Is Also The Hunter

Nishtha Gautam | Monday August 05, 2024

Sheikh Hasina, one of the longest-serving heads of the government in the world, has demitted office after a month of bloodshed in Bangladesh. Her life seems to be coming full circle.

Opinion | India's Neglect Of Its Athletes Is Also An Olympic-Time Story

Nishtha Gautam | Monday July 29, 2024

What should winning at the Olympics mean for Indians beyond the immediate photo ops? And what about the promised infrastructural and systemic reforms that would allow Indian children to even think of sports as a real choice?

Opinion | Kamala Harris, The Woman Left To Clean Up Joe Biden's Mess

Nishtha Gautam | Thursday July 25, 2024

Choosing Kamala Harris over Joe Biden is a tactical course-correction for Democrats, but it may have come a bit too late. Her strengths may not get optimised, her weaknesses are for all to see.

Opinion | Hugs Aside, This Is How Much India And Russia Really Mean To Each Other

Nishtha Gautam | Friday July 12, 2024

How much do Russia and India matter to each other today? This question can be answered only after stripping it of all the romanticism defining the India-Russia relationship.

Opinion | Hathras And The Making Of Superhero 'Babas'

Nishtha Gautam | Monday July 08, 2024

Unfortunately, the very hope and goodness of Indian spiritual traditions has been long exploited by charlatans or the babas and matas pretending to be superheroes.

Opinion | Cricket, Power, And India's T20 Glory In Barbados

Nishtha Gautam | Monday July 01, 2024

The history of cricket in India must undertake what Galeano says in the context of football: "a sad voyage from beauty to duty". India has a duty to - and only India can - protect cricket's beauty.

Opinion | Delhi Heat Crisis Is Behind Us. It's Time To Forget About It, Again

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday June 26, 2024

Delhi has a habit of slinking into complacency when 'terrible' becomes just a notch better and gets categorised as 'bad'.

Opinion | Yoga: Teachers, Tough Love, And The Twinning Of Mind And Body

Nishtha Gautam | Friday June 21, 2024

What is a modern yogi or yogini ought to look for before even embarking on this journey? As a regular practitioner now, all I can say is the possibility of annihilation of ego is a good goal to begin with.

Opinion | ABCD Of Coalition Government: Where Do We Go From Here?

Nishtha Gautam | Thursday June 13, 2024

First things first: coalition governments are the norm not an anomaly for India. The history dates back to the pre-independence years.

Opinion | Arrogance, EVMs And Uttar Pradesh: Key Lessons From Election 2024

Nishtha Gautam | Wednesday June 05, 2024

This election has been a moment of reckoning for everyone who wore arrogance as a second skin. It won't be hyperbolic to say that the humble, vulnerable, taken-for-granted voter had the last word, delivering a coup de grace.

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