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Blog | 30 Terrifying Minutes On A Delhi-Srinagar Flight That Changed My Life - By Derek O'Brien
We see lightning, clearly visible as it stabs through daylight. Now there is some turbulence, but it progresses rapidly. I realise this is not your regular turbulence. This is severe, the likes I've never experienced on my frequent flyer miles before
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Opinion | Protests, Pakistan, And A Yunus-Army Showdown: Why Bangladesh Is On Edge
An embattled Gen Zaman has much to contend with, courtesy a mischievous 'Chief Advisor' who seems to be trying to ingratiate himself with multiple countries - including China - to extend his stay in office.
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Opinion | Akash System, AI Drones, And Why India Can't 'Outsource' Security
A nation that lacks the capacity to manufacture its own armaments finds itself vulnerable to the whims of key defence exporting countries.
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Opinion | No, Sirs. South Africa Is Not 'Killing' Its Whites
The "white genocide" myth serves no one. It stokes fear among white South Africans, trivialises the pain of Black South Africans, and hands a loaded weapon to racists in America and Europe.
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Opinion | The Story Of Turkey-Pakistan 'Brotherhood' And Why It Runs Deep
That the Turkey-Pakistan brotherhood runs deep is a fact amply underlined by the Turkish response to the recent military tensions between India and Pakistan. But what makes this alliance so strong is not just diplomacy, but history and tradition.
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Opinion: The Mysore Sandal Dilemma: Local Pride vs The 'Pan-India' Myth
The Tamannaah-Mysore Sandal Soap saga is far more than just the latest celebrity endorsement to draw flak.
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Opinion | There's Something Pant Can Learn From Virat Kohli
Despite retiring from T20Is and Test cricket, Virat the batter is unstoppable. Pant needs to take a long, hard look at where he is and ask himself if he needs to take that tough call too.
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Opinion | Why Are Tomatoes Selling So Cheap? A Much Bigger Problem Is At Play
Tomatoes are aplenty and selling cheap this summer across India, and, as they say, there is a problem of plenty, thanks to crop rotation, hybrid seeds and nature's bounty.
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Opinion | So, Why Has Apple Stuck To Its Chennai Plan Despite Trump's 'Warning'?
Tim Cook is likely bothered more about what shareholders and analysts think of the way he manages his company's huge cash pile - estimated at well over $300 billion - than an oddball statement from Trump about moving all production to America.
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Opinion | Why Some Indian States Are Fiscally Fit As Others Struggle
The historical precedent of Mississippi's default underscores the importance of addressing structural imbalances to prevent fiscal peril. Indian states still have time to course-correct, but the window is closing rapidly.
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Blog | Samartha, A Child 'Genius' from Dharavi, Asks 'Why Can't I Go To a Good School?'
At just 3 years old, Samartha can name all the continents, most countries and prominent world leaders.
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Blog | A Decade Later, Why Piku Still Hurts
The tragedy of Piku is that in the effort to raise a feminist daughter, Bhashkor inadvertently created a woman who cannot separate agency from obligation. She has the freedom to walk away, but no inner permission to exercise it.
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Blog | Gaza: What To Think About When You're Too Tired To Think About War
Amid the fire and fury, a quieter story is also unfolding, however invisible it may be: Israelis and Palestinians, Jewish and Arab citizens within Israel, and a few cases in the occupied West Bank, working to build a shared and peaceful society.
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Opinion | Why India Should Be Wary As China Tries To 'Realign' Pak And Taliban
While the current status quo gives New Delhi more space and incentive to work with the regime in Kabul, the Emirate's ties with China and Pakistan do pose a huge risk to New Delhi's outreach.
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Opinion | Why China's Fighter Jets Should Worry The US And Taiwan: Karishma Vaswani
The recent aerial clash between Pakistan and India offers a glimpse of how China is narrowing the gap in military airpower with the US. It's a warning not just for Washington, but for Taipei, too.
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Opinion | Can China's Arms Market Recover From India-Pak War Embarrassment?
Most of China's military equipment - estimated to have cost Pakistan more than $20 billion - underperformed, missed their targets, malfunctioned, destroyed, or fell like duds in the war theatre.
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Opinion | A Month After Pahalgam, Have We Lost Sight Of Kashmir And Kashmiris?
While we establish a new normal of military deterrence between India and Pakistan, we seem to have forgotten that our most valuable allies have to be the people themselves.
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Opinion | When Welfare Works As An 'Exclusion' Engine
"Targeted welfare" often functions as an exclusion engine. While it's meant to ensure benefits reach the most deserving, in reality, it forces people to chase endless paperwork only to face denial.
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Opinion| Apple Desperately Needs The AI Help It's Seeking
If you read Bloomberg Businessweek's deep dive into Apple's blundering work with artificial intelligence, a consistent theme is the lack of any clear idea within the company as to what good AI on an Apple device should actually do.
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Blog | Whatever Happened To 'Working From Home'? Why Your Boss Wants You Back In Office
In India, where the tech sector gamely followed Silicon Valley into 'WFH', there is now growing pressure to follow it right back into the office - just like its Silicon Valley big brother.
