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Bharat Mata image, freedom struggle songs had videshi touch: Harvard Prof Sugata Bose

Sugata Bose calls it the ‘colourful cosmopolitanism’ and the ‘border-crossing possibilities’ of India’s nationalist freedom movement—where foreign influences could happily coexist with surging patriotism.

The Tribe shows Gen Z just can’t do drama like millennials

Looking pretty and posting curated selfies is great for social media, not reality TV. Add actual spice, or learn from millennials—they put the D in drama.

India’s music scene shouldn’t be judged on who tours here. We’re winning big at Grammys

With the range of artists that have come to perform and the diversity of music created here, India is thriving. There is no desperation to attract ‘cutting-edge’ international bands.

China-Pakistan SCO presence threatens India. Strategic engagement helps in other ways

India's participation at the Islamabad SCO summit remained restrained, with sharp rebuttals to any attempts to thaw tensions with Pakistan.

Jagdeep Dhankhar is the latest to target ‘demographic disorder’. Census the only solution

If Jadgeep Dhankhar and Mohan Bhagwat are really worried about the way the population of India is growing, they should just ask the government this—where is the Census?

Justin Trudeau’s vote bank politics will take India-Canada ties to the Stone Age

Only a change of government in Canada could reset relations with India and restore normality. And New Delhi should wait and watch till then.

Blame game never helps. Bahraich violence shows it’s time Hindus, Muslims bridge the divide

Social media users seem more focussed on assigning blame to one side or the other during communal clashes rather than seeking common ground.

Waqf Amendment Bill isn’t radical enough. Reinvent or wind up

The near total absence of any visible charity by Waqf should bring us to its real character and organisational structure.

2024 Nobel Prize in Economics disregards history. It minimises effects of race, colonialism

The Nobel Prize in Economics generates an implied hierarchy of knowledge, and rewards particular ways of thinking. This has great consequence for what ideas are spread and adopted.

India has a Trudeau problem, not a Canada one

It is clear that the relationship is in ventilator mode and will need serious thinking from the larger political class in Canada and save it from Trudeau’s unwarranted bravado.

On Camera

Mumbai woman who shouted at minister spoke for many Indians, exposed BJP’s protest politics

Had it been a poor woman shouting at Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan over the roadblock, the police would likely have arrested her, raided her home, and terrorised her family members.

India’s online gaming rules to take effect on 1 May; most games exempt from registration

The rules, which come into force on 1 May, establish an Online Gaming Authority which will determine whether a game is an online money game or online social game in only three situations.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.