Opinion
Opinion | Co-Opting Seditious Elements in New India: Islamists Bide Their Time And Wait For Opportune Moments
Co-opting people like Shehla Rashid and Shah Faesal means you are keeping the Islamism opportunity open. Remember, Islamism never dies down, look at Egypt and other countries, Turkey for that matter
Opinion | A Caste War Is Raging In America, And Hindus Are The Target
The most effective way to combat American anti-Hinduism might be for Muslim and Sikh Indians to speak up on behalf of their Hindu compatriots
Opinion | The Sleep of Reason And Delhi's Deadly Smog
Abuse of language allows politicians to evade tough measures like removal of lethal subsidies and freebies to make agriculture more profitable and curb rural decay; this has also allowed the menace of stubble burning to continue
Opinion | Bihar: Hope’s Fading Fast in the Heart of Darkness
Bihar, once the cradle of civilisation, home to India’s first republic and from where the history of this country was scripted, for 1000 years, faces existential crisis. If it is not saved today, tomorrow will be too late
Opinion | The Rise of Afghanistan Cricket and ICC’s Dilemma
The pictures of people running on Kabul Airport to flee the Taliban rule are still very much alive in the minds of the people. Isn’t allowing Afghanistan to continue as an international cricket-playing nation legitimising the Taliban rule in Afghanistan?
Opinion | Panda Propaganda: BRI is a Global Times’ Fairytale
Amidst the fanfare, the Global Times assures us that the Belt and Road Initiative stands on the “right side of history,” a phrase so overused it’s practically begging for retirement
Opinion I Why Tabu is In a League of Her Own
Tabu has been around in the film industry for more than three decades. More importantly, she is, quite easily, one of the most gifted performers of her generation
Past Forward | Archibald Wavell: The Viceroy Who Warned Churchill
It was Archibald Wavell who almost accurately foresaw how the situation in India was going to shape up at the end of World War II. The only deficiency in his projection was the absence of one factor which no one at that time could have foreseen
Opinion | India And The Israel-Hamas Conflict
The Indian government adopted a two-pronged approach to the current crisis. On one hand, it deplored Hamas’ terrorist actions while on the other, it backed the two-nation solution supporting the Palestine cause
Opinion | The Need For Attention-Based Taxation in Online Gaming
Online games are becoming attention-soaking dumps and need to be heavily regulated to prevent a mental health crisis in India. Let us begin by taxing them on the amount of attention that they are sucking
Book Review | Shadows At Noon: Equating India and Pakistan, Engaging in Apologia For Muslims
Joya Chatterji in her book ‘Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century’ persists with equating India and Pakistan and the alleged similarity of the goals of Nehru and Jinnah, although one was the principal cause of the unprecedented bloodshed of p...
Opinion | ‘NGO-ised’ Congress Unfit to Govern Bharat
By failing to take a clear stance on issues of national interest while actively seeking to undermine it, this ‘NGO-ised’ avatar of the Congress is sending the message to the Amrit Kaal generation that it does not share their dream for a Viksit Bharat by 2...
Opinion | Why are Visuals of Hamas' Murder Spree Missing?
By ‘sparing’ people the horror of seeing what Hamas did to defenceless civilians, is the validity of the Israeli reaction being undermined? Or is Israel robbing Hamas of its ‘glory’ by depriving it of its images of terror?
Opinion | Why Men in Blue May Win the World Cup This Time
Team India won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and 2011. The overall record, however, is a mix of good moments that we love to remember and disappointments that we want to forget but cannot
Opinion | Empowering OBCs: Prime Minister Modi Walks The Talk
While successive Congress regimes only paid lip service to the cause of OBCs, it is the Modi government which brought to fruition various reforms to ensure that the benefits of inclusivity and development are made accessible to one and all
Right Word | The Khalistan Smokescreen: Trudeau’s Accusations, China's Influence and Pak’s Manipulation
The West should learn from recent history as terrorists nurtured in Western countries have turned against these countries inflicting heavy damage