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Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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Topic: YourTurn

SubscriberWrites: Corrective action plan to promote Indian tourism trade

Thank you dear subscribers, we are overwhelmed with your response. Your Turn is a unique section from ThePrint featuring points of view from its subscribers....

SubscriberWrites: Heart of Justice: Valentine’s Day and the Indian Constitution

Thank you dear subscribers, we are overwhelmed with your response. Your Turn is a unique section from ThePrint featuring points of view from its subscribers....

SubscriberWrites: Union Budget 2025–26: A Flop Show for the Middle Class and Farmers

India’s middle class has been under sustained pressure due to rising living costs, stagnant salary growth, and limited tax relief.

SubscriberWrites: India Energy Week: The Core of Growth Strategy

India has consistently posted real GDP growth above 7% in recent years, propelling it into the world’s top five economies after overtaking the UK.

SubscriberWrites: The myth of independence

As a nation, we can’t even claim to be politically independent. We depend on several other nations for exports and imports for trade and survival. National independence, like personal independence, is more symbolic than absolute.

SubscriberWrites: Opium built Bombay

How Indian traders turned a colonial vice into capital.

SubscriberWrites: America’s Cowboy President and the Collapse of Restraint

The modern American presidency increasingly resembles a saloon performance — loud, confrontational, performative, allergic to nuance. Diplomacy is mocked as weakness.

SubscriberWrites: Trump’s Board of Peace & Corporatization of the Resolution of International Conflicts/Wars

Trump's call for a Board of Peace initiative to resolve conflicts globally sounds like a corporate version of the UNO.

SubscriberWrites: AI outlook for 2026

How much progress is realistically likely in the near term

SubscriberWrites: The vanishing point—Venezuela drama and the death of international law

By recognising Venezuela as a 'stateless' zone for drug-trafficking interdiction, the US effectively removes it from the protection of the international legal community.

On Camera

India shouldn’t romanticise 1971, Bangladesh wants transactional ties now

Bangladesh’s recent post-election shift has reduced its India-centric narrative, urging realistic diplomacy.

Urban co-op banks doubled loan book in 5 yrs, but stuck at under 2% of credit market—Sahakar Trends

UCBs accounted for 1.8% of total industry credit in September 2025—down from 2.2% five yrs ago—showing that they are losing ground to faster PSU banks.

US military commander, envoy Sergio Gor visit Indian Army Western Command, Bengaluru next

At the Western Army Command, the American delegation was briefed on the capabilities of the formation, past operations and the path ahead.

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.