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SubscriberWrites: From Afghanistan to Ukraine, USA’s great game involves using countries as medical rats

Who helped Hitler become Hitler? What compelled the USSR to invade Afghanistan? And who is currently using Taiwan to irritate China? There's a clear answer, writes Ashish Agnihotri.

SubscriberWrites: India and Pakistan can engage on sports field if not on politics

Sports can help both the countries fiscally, if not politically, writes Vijay Sundaresan.

SubscriberWrites: Boarding schools can be foundation for teaching life skills and values

Schools form the base for the kind of values one fosters in one's life, writes Col HP Singh.

Bureaucrats should not be punished in retrospect for decisions

The Government should encourage decision making, assure and protect the officers from bonafide errors, writes Vaidyanathan Subramanian.

Subscriber writes: poem on struggles of the transgender community

Shivani Dhama’s poem talks about the flawed notions and perceptions society has about transgenders.

SubscriberWrites: Poem on the challenges of becoming an adult

Vardhan Saklani’s poem talks about the experiences encountered by a person transitioning from a child into a young adult .

SubscriberWrites: Indian airline industry has high mortality rate. Nearly 73% private airlines wind up in 5 yrs

With the exception of Jet Airways and Sahara Airlines, no private airlines could survive the turbulence for more than 5 years.

SubscriberWrites: Medical colleges should incorporate 3D human body simulation for better learning experience

Uniform incorporation of technologies should be ensured in routine classroom sessions to improve the bare-minimum standards of medical education across India, writes Dr Chitra Pandya.

SubscriberWrites: Bidding the final farewell to a pet is a heartbreak like no other

Subscribers write back with their views on the most urgent issues of the day.

SubscriberWrites: The war in Ukraine is benefitting no one. Russia too will only lose resources

Physical re-building and re-engagement in international commerce will take a long time to stabilise, writes Jyoti Lahiri.

On Camera

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.