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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.
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Opinion | Why Operation Sindoor Will Be Studied The World Over
While brief in duration compared to the grinding wars of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the significance of Sindoor lies in the speed, sophistication, and multi-domain nature of Indias military and political response.
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Opinion | Foreign Policy Is Not Just High-Table Talk. It Matters
Foreign policy involves much more than just eloquent speeches; it means working strategically for an authoritative, or at least more representative, seat at the high tables of global governance.
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Opinion | Trump's Hollywood Tariffs Are A Blow To A Struggling Industry
Cinema has long been a tool of soft power for both the United States and China. However, despite its cultural value, filmmaking remains a business - and an expensive one at that. If profitability is compromised, the industry will inevitably retreat.
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Opinion | Trump Is Hell-Bent On Bullying His Friends
Every family has stories of courage. My uncle, my father's older brother, is one of the Adampur Tigers who bombed the Sargodha air base in broad daylight in the 1965 war, an audacious attack, still studied by the Pakistani Air Force.
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Opinion | Trump's Durbar: Back To 'Pax Americana' In The Gulf?
For its sheer optics, Trump's Gulf tour was quite over the top, with his three hydrocarbon-rich hosts going overboard in offering him mega-deals.
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Opinion: US-China Deal Is A Lesson for the Global South
The US-China temporary trade agreement is a blunt reminder: Washington's foreign policy under President Donald Trump is transactional. Deals matter, values don't.
