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Opinion | Are We Seeing The First Signs Of A Musk-Trump Rift?
After a whirlwind seven weeks, during which Trump has managed to wreck relationships and destabilise long-standing institutions, the stock-taking might have begun.
- Friday March 7, 2025
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | RSS And AAP, A Short Love Story
While Kejriwal adopted Hindutva lite, a chasm emerged between the RSS and the BJP, which peaked during the Lok Sabha elections when party president JP Nadda said the party didnt need the RSS anymore.
- Thursday February 13, 2025
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | Move Over Middle Class, 'Replicants' Are Coming
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang envisions everyone in India using AI, creating momentum for an AI flywheel. Or turning India into a token factory for future Replicants, akin to those in the Harrison Ford-starrer 'Blade Runner'.
- Monday February 10, 2025
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | DeepSeek Shows Why Nandan Nilekani Is Right
India's track record suggests that building AI models could run up against scaling and capital challenges. A better strategy might be what Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani proposed last year.
- Monday February 3, 2025
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | Is There A Saudi Cameo In The Israel-Hamas Deal?
While the Saudi aspectif it existsof the ceasefire deal may eventually be revealed, it is clear that the US and major powers in the Gulf have decided to militarily ring-fence Iran.
- Friday January 17, 2025
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | Milei, Trump, Erdogan: The Three Radicals Of 2024
Whether unconventional leaders have been good or bad for their countries is debatable, but they definitely change the course of history.
- Monday December 23, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | RSS Leaps Into Baby Politics
Why does Bhagwats Sunday statement seem to suggest that the RSS has not-so-subtly shifted its stance from controlling the population of non-Hindus to increasing the population of Hindus?
- Tuesday December 3, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | Musk Is The Risk
Musk, however, is also a risk to Trump as his business interests may clash with US foreign policy. For instance, Teslas largest factory is in Shanghai, and another one is in Berlin. Both countries are bracing for higher tariff barriers under Trump.
- Thursday November 7, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | China Or India: Which Is A Better Handshake?
Apples overtures show how China, unlike India, remains an un-bypassable economy for global corporations. Which is why it is Apple that is wooing China, not the other way round.
- Thursday October 24, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | EY Saga, And The Tyranny Of Work
There is no end to greed and it is stacked up from the supervisors at the lowest level, whose job it is to extract the most from their workers, all the way to the top of the food chain, the fat return-seekers who put up the dough.
- Monday September 23, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | RSS vs BJP: Under The Cover Of Friendly Fire
The BJP is nothing but an instrument in a much larger mission that transcends five-year election cycles and mortal leaders, their occasional delusions notwithstanding.
- Monday June 24, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion | BJP Manifesto: Medium Is The Message
The 2024 manifesto is markedly different from previous versions. There are 52 photographs of PM Modi. A key departure from previous documents is the prominence given to Hindu religious symbols, including the Ram Temple.
- Thursday April 18, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion: Why The 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Will Be A Decisive Verdict
If Modi is able to manifest the kind of victory he is aiming for, the country will cross the rubicon to a level of one-party dominance that will be difficult to reverse.
- Monday March 11, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion: Karpoori's Formula, Modi's Alchemy
This background of elite inclusion makes Thakur's choice for Bharat Ratna an interesting one for its timing.
- Monday January 29, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan
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Opinion: Managing Ram Temple Push with Five Trillion-Dollar Economy Quest
The consecration of the Ram Temple is the crowning glory of the strategy of merging unabashed Hindutva with business success.
- Thursday January 18, 2024
- Opinion
- Dinesh Narayanan