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Friday, July 25, 2025
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SubscriberWrites: Dr B.R. Ambedkar, titan of social reform

Ambedkar’s emphasis on education as tool for empowerment and his conversion to Buddhism rejecting caste hierarchies highlight his radical & transformative approach to social change.

SubscriberWrites: Handle with care—need for linguistic sensitivity

The Kamal Haasan row again proves that language is a serious issue requiring sensitivity.

SubscriberWrites: Lowering the ante—a call for global calm

In a world of multiple conflicts, India’s call for peace must not be timid diplomacy, but a bold humanitarian appeal to prevent a catastrophe that could spiral into World War III.

SubscriberWrites: Game-changing learning— Can gamification revive science education in Haryana?

Haryana runs over 14,000 public schools under its education board. But in science, Class VIII students score well below the national average.

SubscriberWrites: Do India, Pakistan, and China know any endgame?

Any India-Pak-China peace push must challenge the flawed belief that bilateralism suffices; all three states treat ties in silos, ignoring their deep strategic entanglements.

SubscriberWrites: Walking with the wronged—why support persons and compensation are crucial for child abuse victims

Justice for child abuse survivors needs more than laws—it needs support persons and timely compensation to offer not just protection, but healing, dignity, and hope.

SubscriberWrites: Why the arrest of Ali Khan Mahmudabad, hits home

Ali Khan’s arrest turns a mirror on identity, dissent, and belonging—raising a haunting question: when history speaks truth, whose freedom is truly protected?

SubscriberWrites: The man who silenced the guns and raised a nation’s flag in Kashmir

How Manoj Sinha turned protest into participation and fear into faith.

SubscriberWrites: The tightrope of breaking bad news

A dilemma between hope and honesty.

SubscriberWrites: Goa’s tourism on the brink

Democratising tourism is the solution  

On Camera

Thailand-Cambodia clash is more than a border fight—it’s a new front in Cold War 2.0

The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.