Opinion
Global Watch | Geopolitical Tensions on Rise as China Recklessly Targets Taiwan
In the shadow of the January 2024 elections, China’s intrusive manoeuvres manifested in cyber-attacks and a disinformation campaign aimed at sowing discord within Taipei. This propaganda framed the electoral choice as a stark dichotomy: align with Beijing...
Opinion | Why Viewers Must Forget Facts Again, To Watch Heeramandi
Reactions to Sanjay Leela Bhansali productions emphasise how many Indians actually know about history and how many attach any importance to authenticity
Opinion | China’s New Weapon: The Information Support Force and Future of Modern Warfare
Given China’s determination to seize Taiwan as soon as possible, the Chinese leadership has acknowledged that it needs to rearrange its critical war capabilities. The ultimate aim of ISF is to apply Sun Tzu’s maxim ‘winning a war without fighting a war’
India First | Foreign-Funded NGOs and a Nexus of Anti-Modi Forces
More than 20,000 NGOs have been deregistered for refusing to meet compliance as per the law of the land
Opinion | Inheritance Tax: The Hard Facts
Inheritance tax has played a big role in wealth transfers and intergenerational equity in developed nations. But to even think of superimposing inheritance tax in the Indian context is a regressive and middle-class unfriendly move
Opinion | Why the Bhojshala Survey is Crucial for India
No survey can repudiate the evidence of temple spolia, whose deliberate use in mosques has no loophole left for plausible denial now
Opinion | Why Prime Minister Modi’s Third Term is Imperative for India and the World
By securing a third term in office, PM Modi will have the opportunity to consolidate his government's achievements, build upon the strong foundation, spearhead big-bang reforms, and propel India to the third-largest economy in the world
Opinion | Striking a Balance between State Power and Citizen Rights
In India, our ancient systems of jurisprudence had always stressed that nyaya or justice must always conform to niti, correct policy. It is time to restore this equation again
Book Review | 'Discovery of Vijaynagar': Exploring the Forgotten
Replete with rare photographs, sketches and maps, the coffee table book by Assam Rifles and its director-general, Lt Gen PC Nair, is a veritable cornucopia of knowledge about a place that most of India does not even know exists
Opinion | Combating Unemployment through Evolving Tech Skill Sets
The manufacturing sector has the potential to accommodate seven to eight million youths entering the labour force annually, as per the ‘India Employment Report 2024’
Opinion | Lights, Camera, Villainy: The ‘Shaitaans’ of Bollywood
The tropes of black magic and occult have existed in Hindi films for a long time with teenage girls falling easy prey to the practitioners of this dark craft
Opinion | Don Mukhtar Ansari's Demise Births Disturbing Questions About Political Morality
For four decades, Ansari reigned supreme as terrorist-in-chief cossetted by obliging politicians --- especially those almost always inimical to the BJP
Opinion | Pankaj Tripathi: A Simple Man in Bollywood
A soft-spoken actor from a village in Bihar, Pankaj Tripathi is a prominent face in the modern-day entertainment industry. The National Award-winning actor has come a long way in a short time
Ramification | Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra: A Yatra to Unite Has Done Everything to Divide
Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra was at the most a road trip that garnered little if any tangible benefits for Rahul Gandhi’s role as a leader. However, the yatra did achieve something even if it wasn’t for Gandhi. It reminded us that India deserves a better Oppos...
Opinion | Teesri Baar Modi Sarkar: Why Modi 3.0 is Inevitable
Modi’s two successful consecutive tenures as PM of Bharat show how effectively he has upheld the Raj Dharma as enunciated by the early Indian scriptures and laid the foundations of a Ram Rajya, which leaves us with no meaningful alternative to his leaders...
Opinion | The Millennia-old History of Kashi Vishwanath
The history of the Kashi Vishwanath temple is filled with tales of repeated destruction by Islamic invaders and rebuilding of the temple by Hindus until Aurangzeb destroyed it in 1669. It was more than a century later that Rani Ahilyabai rebuilt it