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C Raja Mohan writes | Beyond BRICS and the Quad: Forget the grand Design, focus on the mundane

July 02, 2025 7:17 am

PM’s five-nation tour is an opportunity beyond BRICS, Quad. At a turbulent time, Delhi must focus on securing its interests — not an expansive ideological vision

Jagannath temple in West Bengal is TMC’s response to BJP’s Hindutva

May 01, 2025 3:09 pm

It’s a political statement, a cultural symbol, and a strategic manoeuvre designed to consolidate political power and cultivate a distinct regional identity

With Pakistan and terror, an uneasy sense of deja vu

April 28, 2025 11:11 am

Coercion should be a means to an end, with its impact leading at some point to the adversary climbing down to a more reasonable position. Pakistan has so far shown no change in its behaviour

Pope Francis interpreted the Bible in a radical way to place ecology at the centre of Christian concerns

April 25, 2025 6:22 pm

The current global environmental crisis has arisen out of the modern industrial economy based on Western utilitarianism – that human desires alone count, and that Nature is a mere resource to this end. Pope Francis has helped in delegitimising this millennia-old attitude

In defence of the collegium

April 24, 2025 5:40 pm

The collegium is not perfect, but its imperfections must not become a pretext for executive capture

There are many flaws in teaching coding to young minds

April 24, 2025 3:59 pm

We need to recognise that there is much more to education than coding. A false discourse on the nature of future jobs is the invention of the coding industry

From paneer to bridges, quality suffers when we adopt the ‘chalta hai’ attitude

April 24, 2025 3:24 pm

The path forward starts with a simple question: ‘Why not better?’ If we ask it often enough, we’ll slowly change, not just our systems but our standards

US tariffs are likely to remake the global trade system. Few economies are prepared for this

April 23, 2025 6:44 am

We will have to consider things that are almost unthinkable in India. For example, raising consumption necessarily means lowering savings

India has chosen diversity when it comes to language. We should not defeat the purpose behind that choice

April 22, 2025 1:35 pm

While it is debatable whether India's federalism has fared well, the fact that it has survived so far with all its flaws shows that the accommodation of diversity has worked better than forced assimilation

Manoj Kumar, the man who made a ‘16,000-foot-long celluloid flag of India’

April 04, 2025 7:17 pm

Kumar’s nationalistic zeal came forward at a time when India had undergone the trauma of fighting a war with China in 1962, and with Pakistan in 1965 and in 1971

OPINION VIDEOS

How Europe outsources migrant suffering at sea

June 22, 2020 6:07 pm

European countries are outsourcing their humanitarian responsibilities to a dubious partner. An NYT investigation shows the deadly results.

Back To Waste Basics

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