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Of Egg, Leg, and Peg: Chandigarh’s Liquor Love Affair Each peg – accompanied, of course, by the mandated egg and leg – carries with it the serene certainty among most imbibers that if only someone would listen – properly listen to them – all local and gl...

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The Elixir of Life

21.02.2026 00:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

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War and Peace

20.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How the anxiety over AI could fuel a new workers’ movement New technology has workers spooked, but experts say it’s creating an opening for a resurgence in worker power

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Perpetual Anxiety

20.02.2026 01:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What's Strategic Autonomy Without a Defence Industry? Macron's Visit Should Spur a Think The contract for 114 Rafale fighter jets could mark a turning point if Dassault agrees to share more of its know-how and if its Indian partners are able to absorb it.

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Strategic Autonomy

20.02.2026 00:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
View from the classroom: Writer Saikat Majumdar on teaching narrative intelligence in the age of AI To get the most out of AI, human beings must learn to become efficient, innovative and ethical co-workers.

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Narrative Intelligence

19.02.2026 06:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ॐ अक्षराय नमः

15.02.2026 05:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical

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Strategic Autonomy

15.02.2026 02:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why the 114-Rafale Fighter Jet Purchase Raises Hard Questions The original MMRCA negotiation was estimated at roughly $10–12 billion for 126 aircraft, including licensed domestic production of 108 units, via a considerable technology transfer.

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Rahul Bedi

13.02.2026 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Government Moves to Degrade National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana' to Secondary Status Even beyond changing the constitution, the central battle against modern India being waged by the BJP is against constitutional symbols – as they embody what the nation stands for and who it belongs t...

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Vande Mataram

13.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The roots of India’s disinterest in reading A public that prefers to passively consume videos and reels is the natural outcome of an education system which devalues original thought and expression.

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Sublime Vernacular

13.02.2026 11:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Let us Not Imitate Donald Trump’s Habits He cannot be our national role model.

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Humongous Statecraft

13.02.2026 11:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Indians and their cultural inferiority complex, explains Romila Thapar In this chapter from 'Speaking of History', Romila Thapar and Namit Arora discuss the cultural inferiority complex among Indians.

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The Wretched of the Earth

12.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A.K. Coomaraswamy Prize 2026 goes to Charu Gupta’s Hindi Hindu Histories We are delighted to share the news that the annual A.K. Coomaraswamy Prize 2026 for the best scholarly work in South Asian Studies has gone to Charu Gupta’s Hindi Hindu Histories (Permanent Black Rani...

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Hindi Hindu Histories

12.02.2026 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Most Indians don’t read for pleasure – so why does the country have 100 literature festivals? With their carnival atmosphere, music and Bollywood stars, books often take a back seat. But that doesn’t mean writers and their works won’t make a lasting impression

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The Devilish Dilemma

10.02.2026 02:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From Saffron to Cement: Kashmir's Deadly Wasteland In Khrew, Kashmir, the once-thriving saffron fields have been overtaken by a burgeoning cement industry, leading to severe environmental and economic consequences. Sikander Maqbool, a local, abandoned...

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How Saffron Was My Valley

09.02.2026 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Writer from the Dance | Alma Guillermoprieto, Nawal Arjini Alma Guillermoprieto has spent her nearly fifty-year career writing about America—North and South, from New York to Argentina. From her earliest essay in

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Dancing with Cuba

09.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Even Beyond General Naravane's Memoir, Several Questions on the 2020 China Standoff Are Unanswered General Naravane’s 'Four Stars of Destiny' has reopened the debate, but not settled it.

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Rahul Bedi

09.02.2026 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bangladesh: Why young people are turning against India Anti-Indianism is rising in Bangladesh as ties between the South Asian neighbours sink to a new low.

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Sonar Bangla

09.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Beastly Beatitude of Banning Love To know love we have to learn to tell the truth. And the truth is, with hostile neighbours and intricate international deals, we can no longer afford regressing culturally.

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The Beastly Beatitude of Banning Love

08.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacks

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Gone with the Wind

08.02.2026 13:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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School's out I suspect that the schools that urban professionals send their children to are different now. They aren’t privileged boot camps that trained children for college and the world of work

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Homeless on Google Earth

08.02.2026 05:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
‘History is about people, egos, personality clashes, little jealousies’: Biographer Narayani Basu Basu spoke about her approach to historical writing and the elusiveness of Menon versus the garrulousness of Panikkar, the subjects of her books.

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The Wonder That Was India

08.02.2026 04:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Washington Post publisher resigns after job cut uproar The publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, Will Lewis, is leaving following massive layoffs at the US newspaper earlier this week.

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Gone with the Wind

08.02.2026 04:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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André Béteille: A Teacher Par Excellence He always walked in on time, always prepared and fully present. It takes caring and commitment to be unfailingly generous to students and colleagues. It also takes a lot of homework.

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Sublime Subaltern

08.02.2026 04:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Wearing Shalwar-Kameez Taught Me About Identity, Fear and Geopolitics The shalwar-kameez daily reminds me that dress is more than mere clothing – it can also be a passport to generating subtle chaos.

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Rahul Bedi

08.02.2026 04:27 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Modi's Deal With Trump: Submission Sold as High Strategy Even the erstwhile East India Company might have envied India's one-sided trade deal with the United States.

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Granular Agenda

07.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Normativity of Marx’s Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus by Jackson Herndon

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Epistemic Fallacy

07.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

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The Second Sex

07.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Blind Men of Naya Bharat The Modi crowd has become arrogantly self-confident in the prime minister’s ability to sell surrender as victory, and failure as success.

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The Elephant in the Room

06.02.2026 23:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Andre Beteille: A Scholar Remembered Andre was a master teacher in the classroom, but I learnt from him through countless conversations.

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Politics as a Vocation

06.02.2026 23:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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