Opinion
Opinion | ‘Time’s Up’: Biden’s Call to Qatari Emir on Gaza Ceasefire is More About 2024 Elections
The war has imperilled Biden’s political future, already clouded by concerns about the economy and the staggering financial aid to Ukraine. His biggest shock is that 50% of voters in six swing states feel Trump can handle the Israel-Hamas conflict better
How PM Modi’s Emphasis on Sanitation Has Cleaned Up India’s Image
Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiated the Swachh Bharat campaign just months after taking on the country’s reins in 2014. A little over 9 years later, that effort has borne fruit, with the results visible in every corner of the country and the changed ha...
Opinion | My Way or The Highway: Is this Maldivian President’s Message to India?
Muizzu conveyed his request for New Delhi to withdraw the military personnel when Kiren Rijiju paid a courtesy call on him. Another leader in his place may have waited for some time to pass before taking up such a sensitive issue, especially with an immed...
Opinion | Osama, the Latest Left-‘Liberal’ Hero, and the Flawed Notion of Islamic Land
The fight is not against Israeli ‘atrocities’ or ‘highhandedness’ but against the very existence of Israel. The real battle is against the humanistic, democratic world order by those pursuing authoritarian ethics of both Godless and God-fearing ideologies
Opinion | Beyond Sexism, Abdul's Vile Jibe at Aishwarya Captures Pak’s Descent into Islamism. How Long Will Indian Doves Ignore?
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s castigation for merely being a Hindu ought to be a sign that the gap between India and Pakistan is now one too wide to bridge
Opinion | The Rise of Afghanistan Cricket and ICC’s Dilemma
The pictures of people running on Kabul Airport to flee the Taliban rule are still very much alive in the minds of the people. Isn’t allowing Afghanistan to continue as an international cricket-playing nation legitimising the Taliban rule in Afghanistan?
Haryana Curbs Stubble Burning but Punjab Smoulders, Why High AQI in Delhi-NCR is Public Health Crisis
Punjab and Haryana present two starkly different examples of how they have tackled stubble burning. While Haryana has managed to curb 38% of stubble burning incidents, Punjab’s initial gains are rapidly coming undone with farm fires back on the rise in No...
Opinion | Determined and Brilliant, this Team India Deserves the World Cup
The Men in Blue deserve to win the ICC Cricket Men’s World Cup. In fact, such has been their dominance that any other outcome will surprise the entire cricketing world
Akhil Vaani | Life First: Time to Reform, Reboot and Reimagine Unsafe Ambulance Services in India
The real concept of an ambulance is missing in India. Worse, the ambulances are inadequately equipped, and they do not have trained Emergency Medical Technicians
OPINION | Over The Moon: Observing Karwa Chauth Abroad
Many brave officers and men have laid down the supreme sacrifice of their lives in the defence of the nation. We as Indians, must always remember these soldiers in all festivals and pray to the God Almighty to bestow on their families good health, happine...
Opinion | A Tribute to ‘Mother India’: Revisiting New-Age Radhas
Radha, in Mehboob Khan’s ‘Mother India’, is the role model of the chaste, strong, just, hardworking woman for Bollywood screen women to emulate. Let us visit a few new-age Radhas with similar fortitude in different eras
Indian Ink | Indo-Canadian Relations: Time for Trudeau to Show Some Maturity
If Canada had respected India’s concerns, voiced for decades, and disallowed Khalistani radicals from using Canadian soil to mount anti-Indian activities, matters would not have deteriorated so much
Opinion | A Call for Rational Voices in the Muslim World to Reclaim Islam from Extremism
We need more voices demanding why there are no protests unequivocally condemning the brutal Hamas attacks, taking of hostages, and parading the captives on the streets of Gaza
Book Review | Shadows At Noon: Resolutely Showing Hindus and India in a Poor Light
Joya Chatterji’s formidable but deeply flawed account of 20th-century India is a salutary reminder of the external impact of Western intellectual life, books, universities, journals, think tanks and its media and newspaper editorial pages
Opinion | Hamas: Camel Cannot Hide Its Hump
In the last decade and a half, Gaza has acted as a launching pad for several serious attacks on Israel like in 2009 and 2014, leading to major hostilities. Hamas, unless removed, will continue to be a bugbear for Israel
Opinion | Narges Mohammadi: A Campaigner of Women’s Freedom
Noble Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi is a great message to the world that it’s not the job of women alone but the world’s to stand together and be with the cause of women’s rights as human rights