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Loyalty to the country is above all other loyalties: Lal Bahadur Shastri at AMU

On 19 December 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri delivered an address at the convocation of the Aligarh Muslim University, outlining the role education plays in shaping citizens in a democracy.

Ghosted for grammar and cheap whisky—how English, class decide who gets a date

Ladies and gentlemen swiping in the privacy of their rooms will always unfairly reject people. They will pick the ones who talk like them, eat like them.

Trump is dismantling the post-1991 world America built. He rejects a second superpower

For all the murmurs of multipolarity, Donald Trump knows it’s still a unipolar world and is exercising muscle without veneer.

The internet has moved beyond cats. Screaming sea lions are the new mascot

Cats have ruled the internet since their YouTube days. But after two decades, even watching tiny demons wreak devastation upon household items gets boring.

Liberal methods reach social justice faster than socialism: Minoo Masani

The biggest capitalist has to consider what the smallest man in the market wants. This is how the consumer is king and this is what is called a free market economy, Minoo Masani wrote in 1966.

Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’, the Western Hemisphere, and unravelling of the global order

The end of the Cold War in the 1990s brought an end to the ideological spheres of influence that had defined the post-World War II period, envisioned as a fight between the capitalist West and the communist East.

In the age of strongmen, don’t fall for the myth of ‘brittle’ regimes

Most remarkably, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi have introduced the strongman principle to the world’s oldest democracy and its most populous.

J&K medical college was shut over ‘unacceptable’ demography. Hindus can be a minority too

The episode forces an uncomfortable but constitutionally routine point into the open: Hindus are a minority in J&K. Their protection is territorial, not “civilisational”.

‘Jana Nayagan’ projects Vijay as the future CM of Tamil Nadu. That’s the problem

Here's why Vijay’s Jana Nayagan is now at the centre of Tamil Nadu politics.

Toxic air is driving people out of India’s cities, threatening urban growth

As toxic air drives families out of metropolises, India faces health, economic and demographic shifts in its urban landscape.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Too early to draw lessons from US-Israel & Iran war, India monitoring like a hawk—Navy chief

Indian Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi said that the ongoing conflict in West Asia illustrates that speed is no longer merely an enabler of warfare but a distinct capability.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.