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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicAanand L. Rai

Topic: Aanand L. Rai

Raanjhanaa director Aanand Rai doesn’t approve of AI happy ending version. ‘Abject betrayal’

Triya Gulati -
Dhanush and Sonam Kapoor starrer Raanjhanaa is re-releasing in theatres on 1 August. It's got an AI-generated happy ending.

Akshay Kumar’s call in Raksha Bandhan isn’t nationalism. It’s a shaky fight against dowry

Nidhima Taneja -
Indians will connect emotionally with Aanand L. Rai's Raksha Bandhan. But its core idea is shaky at best.

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Opinion

Young India’s cultural assertion isn’t conservatism—it’s course correction

Sameer Prashanth Rao -
Indian Gen Z is assertive because boomers and millennials were docile and apologetic. We are Indian, and we are proud.

Why India fell off the global middle-class map

Why SIR is an exclusionary exercise for Persons with Disabilities

Economy

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Shekhar Gupta -
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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