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Friday, March 20, 2026
TopicSocial conflict

Topic: social conflict

Who is your neighbour? What we are not seeing in Pew study on India

Rama Lakshmi -
The missing heterogeneity of our neighbourhoods should be viewed as a cultural, emotional and intellectual loss — a kind of social poverty.

India’s embrace of modernity is now threatened by social regression

Shyam Saran -
If Indians were to truly carry out their fundamental duties, then regressive trends like laws against inter-faith marriages would be energetically countered.

The vague ‘urban Naxal’ was invented to avoid difficult questions on Modi’s vikaas

Harnidh Kaur -
Anyone whose work revolves around analysing, questioning and maintaining accountability of the government is now an ‘urban Naxal’ and an ‘enemy’.

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Iran and Israel weren’t always enemies. In fact, they were allies

Swasti Rao -
Israel even helped source American defence equipment for Iran, who learnt from Tel Aviv about drones against Soviet air defences in Syria.

CEC Gyanesh Kumar is a constitutional failure. Damage is not procedural, it is existential

What the Iran crisis means for middle powers

Economy

Rupee slides past 93 per dollar to record low as Iran war risks rise

Bloomberg News -
The currency dropped as much as 0.7% to 93.28 per dollar, after a public holiday Thursday. The central bank has been intervening to support the currency, with traders citing its presence Friday.

Defence

Tracked: How a sailor’s 35-minute workout on deck gave away exact location of French aircraft carrier

Vaibhav Pant -
A fitness run logged on a Strava‑linked watch by a French sailor has revealed the movement of nuclear‑powered Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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