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Chennai’s super king
May 5, 2026, 8:10 AM IST
Vijay has been handed something Tamil Nadu has never given a debutant before: a 100-plus-seat mandate, and a likely shot at CM’s chair. Voters have been more than kind. Question now is what he makes…
May 5, 2026, 8:10 AM IST
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Big Bong theory
May 5, 2026, 8:08 AM IST
Bengal, a habitual contrarian, has finally succumbed to the attractions of being one of the crowd of BJP-governed states in north India. Apart from Punjab, Himachal and Jharkhand, political geography has changed. Saffron’s sweep now…
May 5, 2026, 8:08 AM IST
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End this free-dom
May 5, 2026, 8:01 AM IST
Results are out, and they reveal a season of discontent. When three of four large states dislodge incumbents with firm mandates, something’s broken on the ground, from east to south, and maybe elsewhere. BJP’s eyed…
May 5, 2026, 8:01 AM IST
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Opposition’s stale mates… all fall down
May 5, 2026, 7:58 AM IST
Minus key satraps, INDIA bloc is all but done This round’s poll results underline much more than BJP’s durable structural dominance. They also signal implosion of an organised opposition to the BJP dominant party-system. Opposition…
May 5, 2026, 7:58 AM IST
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Solitude as a teacher and discipline of silence
May 5, 2026, 7:56 AM IST
By Venerable Gyaltsen Samten There was a time when life began to draw me away from worldly concerns, and i recognised this shift clearly. It was this inner orientation that led me to choose a…
May 5, 2026, 7:56 AM IST
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Writing without a writer?
May 4, 2026, 6:54 AM IST
We have always mistaken eloquence for intelligence. It is an easy mistake to make, for the assured use of written language has indicated that someone is in control of one’s thoughts and is able to…
May 4, 2026, 6:54 AM IST
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Set the record straight
May 4, 2026, 6:50 AM IST
What do you do when a 7-year-old breaks a world record? Meet Ishank Singh. He’s just 7, but he loves water so much that people call him a “water baby.” He started swimming when he…
May 4, 2026, 6:50 AM IST
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Down the barrel
May 4, 2026, 6:47 AM IST
Blockade of Hormuz is hurting world’s poor most. Collapse of a US budget airline is latest reminder Whether the war between Trump and Iran is over or just paused, it is still affecting everyday people….
May 4, 2026, 6:47 AM IST
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Pursuit of Buddha’s relics
May 4, 2026, 6:46 AM IST
The Buddha relics, on view in Ladakh now, are home in India exactly a year after they surfaced, set to go under the hammer, from a private collection. In 1898, William Claxton Peppé, a British…
May 4, 2026, 6:46 AM IST
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The Trumped-up manliness of MAGA-verse
May 4, 2026, 6:42 AM IST
American men are facing a crisis of masculinity, driven by uncertainty about what it means to be a man in an era where their traditional dominance is being called into question. It’s left them flailing…
May 4, 2026, 6:42 AM IST
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Down the barrel
May 4, 2026, 6:40 AM IST
Whether Trump’s war on Iran is over or paused, it hasn’t stopped affecting ordinary people’s lives. Americans are paying $4.4 per gallon of petrol, up from $2.9 in Feb. The increase is enough to derail…
May 4, 2026, 6:40 AM IST
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Set the record straight
May 4, 2026, 6:37 AM IST
Little Ishank Singh, all of 7, by all accounts is a water baby. He started swimming at age 3. Once his Sri Lanka to India 29km swim was chalked out, he trained up to 8…
May 4, 2026, 6:37 AM IST
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War hurts movies too
May 4, 2026, 6:35 AM IST
West Asia has for decades held a special fascination for Indian films, particularly the crop from Maya Nagari, Bollywood. This has been turning concrete, with stars such as SRK and Mammootty buying palatial houses there,…
May 4, 2026, 6:35 AM IST
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When the machine asks ‘who am I’
May 4, 2026, 6:33 AM IST
By Partha Sinha We have long been comfortable with tools. The hammer did not disturb us. The wheel did not provoke metaphysics. Even the computer, in its early obedient years, felt like a faster clerk….
May 4, 2026, 6:33 AM IST
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Aam Aadmi, Khas Identity
May 2, 2026, 8:30 AM IST
There is a revealing asymmetry in the way Indians relate to their foods. Dishes inspire loyalty. Recipes inspire argument. Ingredients inspire, at best, preference. But the mango, the aam, inspires something that has no clean…
May 2, 2026, 8:30 AM IST
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What The Woman In Worli Tells Us About Our Life
May 2, 2026, 8:21 AM IST
When I saw the video of the woman in Worli shouting at a minister, after a political rally trapped her in traffic, as she was trying to collect her child from school, I did not…
May 2, 2026, 8:21 AM IST
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Cylindrical vision
May 2, 2026, 8:08 AM IST
Commercial LPG price has been hiked before, in fact, during the Hormuz crisis. But yesterday’s increase captures the true extent of supply disruption. A 48% increase – from Rs 2,078.5 to Rs 3,071.5 – is…
May 2, 2026, 8:08 AM IST
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The world’s only…
May 2, 2026, 7:50 AM IST
Brandwallahs, and economists, know this well – we premiumise, and put greater value, on things other people want, and can’t have, simply because they can’t afford them. It’s in our very nature. And nothing serves…
May 2, 2026, 7:50 AM IST
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When did ordinary life become a disease?
May 2, 2026, 7:40 AM IST
Neurologist and seizure expert, Suzanne O’Sullivan , often sees patients who already have three, four, five preexisting diagnoses, which don’t yet have a cure. In a medical world racing pell-mell towards fancy new tests, she finds it…
May 2, 2026, 7:40 AM IST
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Are Bengal’s bhadraloks shifting towards BJP?
April 28, 2026, 8:51 AM IST
The second phase of Bengal election, on April 29, closer to Kolkata and its surrounding urban belt, is the harder test for BJP. Anger against Trinamool’s 15 years in office is no longer scattered, BJP…
April 28, 2026, 8:51 AM IST
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