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Saturday, February 21, 2026
TopicPoliticisation

Topic: politicisation

Four stages of a photo-copy and who’s got egg on their face

ThePrint Team -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Neither governors nor CMs can be state university chancellors. It needs someone accountable

Ramanand -
If we want our academic institutions to improve and feature higher in world rankings, we need to think beyond CMs and governors as chancellors.

Hindi hegemony will only end when other Indian languages like Tamil are reinvented

Aananth Daksnamurthy -
Protesting against Amit Shah's Hindi imposition is fine but do non-Hindi states like Tamil Nadu work for the advancement of their own languages?

In two events, Modi added military into election engineering for UP. It’s a bad sign

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
IAF airshow at Purvanchal Expressway and military equipment ‘Samarpan’ at Jhansi shows military hierarchy has become unwittingly party to BJP electioneering.

Cariappa not an exception. Many Indian generals have talked about military coup

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
India's generals must remember that when they speak, the impact lasts for a long time. Field Marshal Cariappa's 1970 remark about a military rule is a case in point.

Indian military isn’t politicised like China, Pakistan but the seeds have been sown in 2019

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
The Modi government and the Indian armed forces will have to introspect and arrest this trend rather than wait for another debacle.

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Opinion

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

MH Mody -
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

AI is officially ruining social media. It made brainrot boring

Bangladesh lost on all fronts under Yunus. A herculean task awaits the new PM

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

Snehesh Alex Philip -
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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