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SubscriberWrites: Beyond Labels: A Message for Our Times

With access to global knowledge and voices, this generation can rise above inherited fears and artificial divisions—and see people as people, not categories.

SubscriberWrites: Sovereignty on trial—Venezuela, Maduro & the ghosts of regime change

Maduro’s capture by the US raises troubling questions about sovereignty, selective justice and the growing use of international law as an instrument of power rather than restraint.

SubscriberWrites: Vande Mataram and the theatre of power—What the Goa assembly revealed

In Goa’s Assembly, Vande Mataram turned into a loyalty test rather than a shared sentiment, exposing how symbolism is used to mask failed governance and enforce obedience.

SubscriberWrites: When politics walks onto the field

From the Mustafizur Rahman–IPL row to Olympic boycotts and World Cups, the uneasy, often unavoidable entanglement of sports and politics resurfaces once again.

SubscriberWrites: When tariffs become tantrums

A 500% tariff threat met silence, not surrender. India didn’t defy it loudly; it waited it out. Civilisations don’t blink at noise—they absorb it.

SubscriberWrites: Colonialism beyond wardrobes—When de-Britishisation becomes a distraction

If the Railways Minister truly wishes to honour the spirit of decolonisation, he could begin elsewhere. He could advocate for making affordable travel a right, not a privilege.

SubscriberWrites: Job Seekers or Job Creators: India’s Defining Choice

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SubscriberWrites: Where tradition meets the arena

Thank you dear subscribers, we are overwhelmed with your response. Your Turn is a unique section from ThePrint featuring points of view from its subscribers....

SubscriberWrites: Are you a spiritual egotist?

A chance flight conversation reveals how modern spirituality, when reduced to self-help slogans and ego, can lose humility, depth and even basic co-passenger etiquette.

SubscriberWrites: Awareness without action—The environmental paradox

From the US to India, climate concern runs high, but personal change lags, exposing a global paradox where knowledge grows while environmental inaction deepens.

On Camera

New Delhi prefers to look at Manipur as a horizontal problem, not vertical

‘Well-entrenched institutional apathy' is how Dhiren A Sadokpam, editor of The Frontier Manipur defined it. 'New Delhi has the power to intervene at every level,' he said.

RBI opens door to urban co-op bank licences after 2 decades. But high capital bar may shut most out

Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.