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Aakar Patel | Why Indians Need To Protect, Expand The Right To Hold Peaceful Protests

Aakar Patel | Why Indians Need To Protect, Expand The Right To Hold...

The reality is that today we have no such rights. Do Indians have the right to “assemble peacefully and without arms”?...

10 Aug 2026 11:29 PM IST

Dev 360 | Beyond Reels & Memes: The Lessons From Gen Z Protests | Patralekha Chatterjee

Dev 360 | Beyond Reels & Memes: The Lessons From Gen Z Protests |...

What actually worked for the Cockroach Janta Party and for Kishor was simpler, more direct, and far more awkward for the...

10 Aug 2026 10:35 PM IST

Bharat Bhushan |Why Changes In FCRA Stoke Minority Fears

Bharat Bhushan |Why Changes In FCRA Stoke Minority Fears

The seized assets will vest in a “designated authority” created by the government, which can pass them on to government...

10 Aug 2026 1:10 AM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr |No Need For Indians To Lose Sleep Over Pakistan’s New Pact With Saudis, Turkey

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr |No Need For Indians To Lose Sleep Over...

The United Arab Emirates has formed an undeclared military alliance with Israel. The Saudis are not willing to depend on...

10 Aug 2026 12:32 AM IST

Ruchira Gupta | Abdul El Sayed’s Michigan Primary Win And The Rise Of America’s New Left

Ruchira Gupta | Abdul El Sayed’s Michigan Primary Win And The Rise Of...

Unlike India, the United States does not guarantee health care to every citizen. Americans frequently depend upon...

9 Aug 2026 1:04 AM IST

Manish Tewari | Why Collapse Of Islamabad Memorandum Was Certain

Manish Tewari | Why Collapse Of Islamabad Memorandum Was Certain

The Syrian Wars of the third and second centuries BCE, between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires, were at their core a...

9 Aug 2026 12:33 AM IST

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The Art Of Asking The Right Questions

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | The Art Of Asking The Right Questions

What’s with this mad obsession with collecting endless information that actually adds nothing to our understanding of...

9 Aug 2026 12:06 AM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Of Trump & Iran; And A Flashback To WMDs In Iraq And Sobhraj Saga | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | Of Trump & Iran; And A Flashback To WMDs In...

You may be aware that from 1997 I have had the acquaintance of the convicted serial murderer Charles Sobhraj. How and...

8 Aug 2026 12:40 AM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India’s Higher Education: Poised For Deep Reforms

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India’s Higher Education: Poised For Deep Reforms

In this frantic pace of expansion, state governments have done much of the heavy lifting. There are now 926 state...

7 Aug 2026 11:49 PM IST

Wasbir Hussain | Time For Diplomatic Reset In Delhi’s Ties With Dhaka

Wasbir Hussain | Time For Diplomatic Reset In Delhi’s Ties With Dhaka

The slide in bilateral ties began after the dramatic political transition in Bangladesh in August 2024. Since then,...

7 Aug 2026 2:51 AM IST

Bhopinder Singh | Don’t Misuse The ‘Prestige’ Of The Military To Further Partisan Politics

Bhopinder Singh | Don’t Misuse The ‘Prestige’ Of The Military To...

India, on the other hand, presents a more complicated picture. The country’s retired military officers enjoy the same...

7 Aug 2026 2:39 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Amid Friction in PoK, Why Delay Over J&K Statehood?

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Amid Friction in PoK, Why Delay Over J&K...

PoK protests, Kashmir's future and concerns over India's political direction

5 Aug 2026 10:19 PM IST