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Sunday, September 21, 2025
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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.

SubscriberWrites: Gold in the vault, dust on the nation— India’s tragic obsession with hoarding wealth

Hoarded wealth didn’t protect India—it exposed her. The deeper problem? Glorifying hoarding as prudence.

SubscriberWrites: Deconstructing the disparity

Why India's quality of life rankings miss the mark. One of the most significant criticisms levelled against these global rankings is their over-reliance on purely quantitative indicators.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.