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Peace for Sale?
20 Jan 2026 11:33 PM ISTDonald Trump’s proposed Board of Peace for Gaza raises a troubling question — can stability be bought, or must it be earned through legitimacy and...
Two Regimes, Two Choices
16 Jan 2026 12:11 AM ISTAs Saudi Arabia quietly recalibrates social control to secure its future, Iran’s clerical leadership risks collapse by treating women’s autonomy as a...
‘Ashadha Ka Ek Din’ & ‘Cinema Paradiso’: Two Faraway Stories, One Shared Loss
11 Jan 2026 1:28 PM ISTHuman emotions transcend boundaries of language, culture and even time and space
Abdi: A Quintessential Lakhnavi Qissago
4 Jan 2026 1:44 PM ISTA prominent lawyer by profession, Mehmood Mehdi Abdi has turned memory into a medium
Debunking Muslim Stereotypes
2 Jan 2026 11:16 PM ISTFor much of Hindi cinema’s history, Muslim characters have occupied a narrowly defined moral and visual frame
Diaspora’s Moral Unravelling
25 Dec 2025 11:39 PM ISTOnce respected as educated migrants, parts of the Indian diaspora now stand accused of amplifying hate, mocking suffering, fueling dehumanisation—and...
Conflict’s Dangerous Spillover
17 Dec 2025 12:15 AM ISTAs Israel’s war in Gaza continues, antisemitism is rising across Western democracies, with attacks like Bondi Beach showing how anger at Israel...
Rudyard Kipling & the Heavily Armed Thakur
14 Dec 2025 1:44 PM ISTRudyard Kipling’s Rajputana travels gave him stories that would help shape his literary legend
A Pardon Too Late
11 Dec 2025 10:27 PM ISTBy seeking a presidential pardon he may never receive, Benjamin Netanyahu has triggered national outrage, exposed political fractures, and accelerated...
Women’s personal choices in social media: A disproportionate public property?
9 Dec 2025 10:12 PM ISTLike a golden fish trapped in a glass bowl, Indian cricket icon Smriti Mandhana has become the unwilling focus of a national obsession
Prejudice in Plain Sight
1 Dec 2025 11:37 PM ISTRising hostility against Indians in Singapore exposes how even robust multicultural societies can become vulnerable to global waves of resentment,...
Anatomy of a Constitutional Collapse
20 Nov 2025 10:50 PM ISTPakistan confronts an unprecedented constitutional rupture as sweeping amendments, judicial resignations and military supremacy converge to erode the...













