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Topic: Papon

Northeast music has too much Western influence, needs Korea-type cultural revolution: Papon

Janki Dave -
Angaraag ‘Papon’ Mahanta says the music from the region is struggling to find an identity and most songs have no essence or soul of Northeast in them.

After controversy over Papon kissing minor girl, her father asks media to drop it

Divya Narayanan -
The minor girl is under Papon’s tutelage on a reality show, the father says his affection was part of guru-shishya tradition.

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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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