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SubscriberWrites: Love your Delhi

Delhi is more than a city—it's a living heritage. To make it livable again, we must heal its forests, revive Yamuna, and protect its cultural soul with urgent civic action.

SubscriberWrites: GDP is the Road, but Happiness is the Destination

GDP tells us how fast we’re going—but not where we’re headed. India must value happiness, dignity, and wellbeing, not just numbers, on its journey to true development.

SubscriberWrites: Are Rhesus monkeys wild animals?

No law can change that rhesus monkeys are wild animals, vital to ecosystems, culture, and research, not as test subjects, but as sentient co-inhabitants of our world.

SubscriberWrites: True measure of resilience and leadership

True resilience isn’t in preaching it, it’s in practicing it. Leadership begins with integrity, not instruction; with leading by example.

SubscriberWrites: Priorities for the new chairman of NFRA

NFRA must take decisions to create independent divisions for monitoring of audit quality, investigation in to audit failures, and adjudication of cases of professional misconduct.

SubscriberWrites: Brothers up in arms – The bogey of Marathi pride

There is, of course, nothing wrong in encouraging the use of Marathi in public life. But it must be done with dignity and persuasion—not threats and fear.

SubscriberWrites: Who will mourn the dead who served the Republic?

A state that can't mourn its servants and leaders who choose selective memory create a society lacking the moral confidence needed to sustain itself.

SubscriberWrites: CEC’s recipe of scalping Delhi’s ridge lands

CEC nod to luxury flats on Delhi Ridge sparks outrage, signals ecological backslide, flouts conservation laws, and opens floodgates for private profiteering in green zones.

SubscriberWrites: Jets, Jibes and Judgement—How President Trump’s remark is reviving the wrong debate

Trump's comments on Indian jets being downed rekindle the debate on clarity and transparency from the government

SubscriberWrites: Why Bharat can’t afford a bandh mindset

The Bharat Bandh protests highlight a deeply troubling contradiction: unions demand job creation while simultaneously opposing the very reforms that enable jobs to be created.

On Camera

British Raj determined what kind of dog was acceptable in India—pets vs strays

There was a painful recalibration of dog-human relationships in 18th century Britain—any dog, except for the owned, leashed pet, lost its right to exist. They brought this mindset to India.

Grounded no more: Andhra govt revives no-frills Dagadarthi airport near Nellore to boost south coast link

As Visakhapatnam readies a mega airport, the Andhra Pradesh government has revived its shelved Dagadarthi project, aiming to boost cargo and connectivity on the south coast.

Oreshnik, ATACMS & Storm Shadow: All about the missiles Russia and Ukraine are firing

Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are leaning on drones, but they’re also firing cruise and ballistic missiles, some of them relatively new and experimental.

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.