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SubscriberWrites: There is a requirement to elevate the quality of public debates in India

Col KL Viswanathan -
Consensus, in a democracy, is often an illusory goal. It should perhaps be replaced by acceptance of living with dissent and compromise.

SubscriberWrites: UPI was built to be free. The next question is who pays for its scale?

Aaditya Paswan -
UPI is not becoming a paid service for everyone. Person-to-person payments remain free and merchant payments up to ₹2,000 are outside the new charge.

SubscriberWrites: The IIT Mumbai Incident – A Reality Check

Saroj Chadha -
A small leak can sink a great ship, but in modern media, a small drop can be magnified into a tidal wave.

SubscriberWrites: When Delhi starts deciding for the states: Is Indian federalism losing its essence?

Abhinav Mishra -
This is not an isolated development. Similar questions can be seen in finance, law, administration and policymaking.

SubscriberWrites: The art of dividing the family silver

Aloka Sengupta -
India’s most enduring business families offer an unexpected lesson in succession: preserving an inheritance does not always mean keeping it intact.

SubscriberWrites: India’s services exports: a $421 bn quiet engine offsetting the trade deficit. Enter AI and…..

Banudas Athreya -
In 2025-26, India exported an estimated $421.3 billion worth of services, up from $387.5 billion in 2024-25.

SubscriberWrites: A Tale of Two Mumbai Cops — and the Bollywood Nexus Around Them

Akshay Sharma -
And six years after Disha Salian's death, the CBI has finally been ordered to examine the case afresh.

SubscriberWrites: China wants to Rewrite International Relations. India Needs its own Theory.

Ankit Kumar -
Chinese scholars are asking a bigger question: Do Western theories adequately explain China’s understanding of world politics?

When foreign money buys a halo

Mohan Murti -
India has every right to follow the money. The scandal is that this should be considered scandalous.

Beyond Popularity: When Competence Meets Power and Influence

K.L. Viswanathan -
Popularity is not the same as influence. A leader may be highly popular within his or her own country, yet have limited ability to influence world affairs.
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Opinion

Women petitioned courts for justice against rapists 800 yrs ago. Things haven’t changed much

+TFP Praveen Swami -
The number of rape cases on record has fallen through the years. Either the police are reluctant to register FIRs, or survivors are losing faith in the criminal justice system.

Tej Pratap Yadav has found his true constituency—reality TV

Tattoos, piercings, hair colour: The absolute joy and terror of presenting queer

Economy

E85 may need to be 25% cheaper than petrol for cost parity, says IIT Delhi-AIDA paper

Udit Bubna -
Paper proposes dynamic pricing based on cost per kilometre and vehicle-specific fuel economy, calls for separate ethanol strategy for two-wheelers.

Defence

Drones for IAF are not revolutionary but evolutionary, says IAF chief

Snehesh Alex Philip -
IAF chief Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh has ruled out a separate drone force, saying that UAVs must operate with fighters and other existing technology.

National Interest

India has always been a hard state under Gandhian cover. Nehru to Modi, leaders have reinforced it

Shekhar Gupta -
Modern India might have been conjured up in the image of Gandhi. But India was never a Gandhian state. Founders of the Republic, be it Nehru or Patel, nursed zero such notions.

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