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SANJAYOVACHA | Cartels, Customers, Cronies In The Captive India Market | Sanjaya Baru

SANJAYOVACHA | Cartels, Customers, Cronies In The Captive India Market...

A product of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s “leftist” phase, the MRTPC was set up in 1969 in response to studies that...

21 Dec 2025 10:10 PM IST

Pavan K. Varma | Clean Air Not A Luxury, Why Govt Not Effecting Solution?

Pavan K. Varma | Clean Air Not A Luxury, Why Govt Not Effecting...

When the Air Quality Index (AQI) regularly breaches ‘severe’ and ‘hazardous’ categories exceeding 450 — levels that...

21 Dec 2025 12:24 AM IST

Anita Katyal | Gadkari Repeats Atal Amity Mantra; Was Modi First To Call Trump?

Anita Katyal | Gadkari Repeats Atal Amity Mantra; Was Modi First To...

The Bharatiya Janata Party finally picked current president J.P. Nadda’s successor. Five-time MLA and Bihar minister...

21 Dec 2025 12:11 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | Why I’m Not Booking My Next Holiday To Barcelona

Ranjona Banerji | Why I’m Not Booking My Next Holiday To Barcelona

But the people of Barcelona don’t want me. Not me specifically. I mean, I hope not

20 Dec 2025 11:40 PM IST

Dev 360 | Clean Air As Privilege: It’s India’s Hidden Inequality | Patralekha Chatterjee

Dev 360 | Clean Air As Privilege: It’s India’s Hidden Inequality |...

Why is India -- so vocal on climate change and greenhouse gases -- in mute mode on domestic air pollution? It is now a...

20 Dec 2025 2:13 AM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | There’s Nothing ‘Christian’ About Spewing Hate For Asylum Seekers | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | There’s Nothing ‘Christian’ About Spewing Hate...

Growing up in India, one couldn’t not know about dharma and karma, but the understanding of these came woven into myths...

20 Dec 2025 2:04 AM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Future Gridlocks Lurking Behind The IndiGo Mess

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Future Gridlocks Lurking Behind The IndiGo...

The fleet and the crew were working more shifts than they should have been. It is nice old capitalist rule: push the...

19 Dec 2025 12:22 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Why India Sent A Retired Cop As NSA To Port Louis

Dilip Cherian | Why India Sent A Retired Cop As NSA To Port Louis

For years, the Mauritius NSA position has typically gone to officers with a strong external intelligence or military...

18 Dec 2025 11:39 PM IST

Kamal Davar | Terror has to be Fought Globally: Will World Learn from Bondi Hit?

Kamal Davar | Terror has to be Fought Globally: Will World Learn from...

Unfortunately, instead of striving for a peaceful law-abiding global order, many nations remain in pursuit of their own...

17 Dec 2025 10:25 PM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Justice or Vengeance? No End to Violence in B’desh

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Justice or Vengeance? No End to Violence in...

Muhammad Yunus’ call for parliamentary elections next February confirms that Bangladesh remains a “riddle wrapped in a...

17 Dec 2025 10:23 PM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | How Rising Inequality Leads To Distorting Indian Society

Mohan Guruswamy | How Rising Inequality Leads To Distorting Indian...

It is said that an analysis of the Kindle readers of the Piketty book revealed that a typical reader got through 26 of...

17 Dec 2025 1:29 AM IST

K.J. Jacob | Despite Dramatic Win In Its Capital, A Long Way To Go For BJP In Kerala

K.J. Jacob | Despite Dramatic Win In Its Capital, A Long Way To Go For...

Mr Modi's congratulations and blessings will be a shot in the arm for the BJP for its campaign for the Assembly...

17 Dec 2025 12:45 AM IST