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Opinion | War Or Peace: What Will Become Of Middle East In 2025?
West Asia in 2024 stands at a crossroads. While the region faces numerous challengesfrom political instability to economic dependence on oil there are also opportunities for transformation.
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Opinion | How BJP Managed Allies In 2024
This year demonstrated the BJP's capacity to drive negotiations with its coalition partners in its favour. With crucial state elections in 2025, it will be closely watched whether this trend continues or if there will be a reversal.
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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 | World Cup Win To NZ Loss, The Rollercoaster Indian Cricket Was In 2024
The T20 World Cup win gave Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli the perfect opportunity to bring the curtain down on their T20I careers. On the other hand, New Zealands Test series win was a gut punch.
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Opinion | Laapata Bollywood: How 2024 Became The Year Of Banality
Budgets are getting amped up, more investment is tailored for VFX and Hindi films are getting bigger. Yet, one would be hard-pressed to distinguish between the trailers of Baby John and Animal.
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Opinion | A Murky Rivalry Is Brewing In India's Neighbourhood
Remember Hillary Clinton's famous jibe in 2011 about the dangers of Pakistan keeping snakes in its backyard that would inevitably turn around and strike its benefactor? This seems to be it.
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Opinion | Manmohan Singh, Who Brought The India Story To World Stage
Manmohan Singh transformed India, and did so with an uncommon level of integrity, personal incorruptibility and simple decency that were wholly admirable and moved all who had the privilege of knowing him.
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Book Excerpt | How Manmohan Singh Helped India Beat China To Mars
How India's maiden mission to Mars became 'Mangalyaan': Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 2012 speech written in Urdu hid the answers.
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Opinion | Tote Bags To Caps, Politics For The 'Gram
If there is no true intention of bringing about change and its only for the social media buzz, then it does ruin the sincerity of fashion taking a stand, as is often the case with our present netas
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Opinion | Arjun vs Reddy: What Happened When Politicians Clashed With Stars In The Past
The Arjun vs. Reddy battle mirrors a familiar narrative in southern Indian politics: the clash between a star and a powerful politician.
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Opinion | Manmohan Singh: The Thinking Person's Politician
Dr Singh's contributions to the country are such that he and his legacy stand vindicated in the short period of a decade. When he said, amidst widespread bad-faith media criticism, that history would judge him kindly, he was right.
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Opinion | India In 2024: The Great Balancing
At a time when the Middle East is riven with various fault lines and sits on the precipice of a region-wide war, New Delhi's ability to maintain close ties with all the key stakeholders speaks volumes about its diplomatic success.
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Blog | "There Are No Permanent Villains": What Shyam Benegal Told Me About Bollywood's Bad Men
"The hero was shifting. He had grey characters. Hitherto, the heroes were all unblemished ones. But now the hero was not the totally morally, unblemished hero anymore," Shyam Babu told me.
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Blog | How Shyam Benegal Rediscovered India
India had to be rediscoveredfour decades after its tryst with destiny. No one could have done the job better than Shyam Benegal.
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Opinion | Indian Test Cricket Is On The Cusp Of Change. Don't Fear It
We stand on the cusp of another tectonic shift in Indian Test cricket today. The team has moved on from Test veterans like Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishant Sharma and Wriddhiman Saha. Ashwin, too, has brought the curtain down on his career.
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Opinion: Why Crowning Bangladesh 'Country Of The Year' Is Dishonest Narrative Building
In the article lauding the regime change in Bangladesh, The Economist welcomes the overthrow of an autocrat. This convenient narrative disregards the fact that Bangladesh has had long spells of military rule.
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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 | Why Nitish Kumar Has Gone 'Silent' Again
The Bihar unit of BJP has been in a damage control mode to circumvent any misunderstandings over leadership issues with coalition partner JDU (Janata Dal United) before the all-important assembly elections in 2025.
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Opinion | One Nation, One Election, Many Suspicions
Both support and opposition don't seem to stem from merits but from political divide and a deep mistrust.
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Opinion | West Is Gushing Over al Jolani. Has It Forgotten About Laden?
From $10 million bounties to "productive discussions"al-Jolanis journey has been fascinating. But whats been even more telling is the trajectory of US foreign policy. Lessons from the past, tragically, are being ignored.
