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Opinion | Labour Day Special Toast to Wine and Work - Real And Pretentious

In many countries, May Day is celebrated by raising a wine glass to toast the fruit of human labour that makes the world go round. It is ironic,...

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Opinion | Nationalism And Elections: BJP Understands, Opposition Still Doesn't

In 1989, when people 'defected' to vote the Indian National Congress government out, leading to a minority National Front government, there were loud...

20.04.2024 10

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Opinion | This Election Season, Even Shakespeare's Fool Wants You To Think

Vinay Pathak in Nothing Like Lear Courtesy: Unmask Studio Vinay Pathak wakes up to bad news one day. Out of habit, as he opens the newspaper to...

18.04.2024 20

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At the Oscars, a reiteration of American exceptionalism

In the Oppenheimer universe, the US is right even when the US is wrong.

15.03.2024 4

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Opinion: Men Need To Stop Raping Women. That's It

Yet another woman has been raped in India. She's part of the crime statistics this time because she happens to be a foreigner, a traveller, a vlogger,...

05.03.2024 20

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Opinion: Men Need To Stop Raping Women. That's It

Yet another woman has been raped in India. She's part of the crime statistics this time because she happens to be a foreigner, a traveller, a vlogger,...

05.03.2024 20

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Opinion: Bvlgari To Tiffany, All Want A Piece Of Indian Men's 'Maharaja' Dreams

While it may still be some time before Indian men go all Timothée Chalamet in donning Cartier necklaces while stepping out, luxury jewellery brands...

27.02.2024 6

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Opinion: Fashionable Collaborators Of Murderous Regimes, Beware!

Are there any mitigating circumstances for the actions of the collaborators of a murderous regime?  In the graveyards of empires, the tombstones of...

21.02.2024 9

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Opinion: When Sahir 'Surkha' Ludhianvi Met Danish 'Daastaango'

We never see 'Maan-ji' on stage, but the fact of her influence on Sahir Ludhianvi's life and poetry is lost on nobody in the audience. When the mother...

11.02.2024 10

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Opinion: Poonam Pandey's Stunt - Why Are We So Upset, Really?

Why are we upset at Poonam Pandey pulling off her death stunt to raise awareness for cervical cancer?  We, the regular individuals, who thrive on the...

05.02.2024 10

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In the changes in AlUla, seeds of a Saudi Spring

Saudi Arabia is warming up to the notions of choice and AlUla can be called its social laboratory

05.02.2024 10

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Opinion: Ram Mandir - Where Do We Go From Here?

It's done. The wheel of time willed it. A Ram temple in Ayodhya is firmly in place now. It tells us the tale of how empires and civilisations rise and...

23.01.2024 10

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The difficult journey to becoming a global soul

Becoming a global soul involves privilege, planning, providence, and Pico Iyer’s brand of curiosity.

21.01.2024 20

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Opinion: Ram Rajya's Modern Definition For Delhi And Other Big Cities

I want Ram Rajya in Delhi. This utopian state of my dreams that has eluded Indians for several millennia will have its Lakshman-Rekha to define spaces...

16.01.2024 10

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In the US, the Nikki Haley alternative

Why should Nikki Haley not be the next President of the United States?

29.12.2023 5

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Opinion: Instead Of Seeking Period Leave Women Should Remove Their Uteruses

I am compelled to write this essay in a deeply subjective tone and tenor. Only because an honourable minister chose to share her "personal views" as a...

19.12.2023 6

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Opinion: Let's Talk About Mahua Moitra - Fiercest Critic Or Propped Up By Media?

Even after two terms in power, with an exceptional majority, the Bharatiya Janata Party hasn't shed its underdog mentality. They still like to go for...

13.12.2023 7

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Opinion: 'Animal' To 'Anatomy' - Misogyny And Morality In Cinema And Society

In one of the most poignant scenes of celebrated Hindi dramatist Mohan Rakesh's iconic play, Aadhe Adhure, Savitri recalls being brutalised by her...

05.12.2023 6

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Opinion: Team India Lost World Cup Final Even Before Losing Toss

I may or may not have unleashed the drunk sailor in me on Sunday. I'm not proud of it but blame it on my accident of birth. I'm an Indian and I cannot...

22.11.2023 10

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Hate is twice cursed, mercy twice blessed

Jews know the pain of losing a home. Jews know what it is like to never be able to return to one

18.11.2023 9

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Opinion: Only Disturbing Part In The Nitish Kumar Row Is His Apology

"Everything is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." While it is unclear whether the author and enfant terrible of Victorian-era London, Oscar...

10.11.2023 6

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Hopeless, awkward and desperate for love

Chandler of Friends, like Matthew Perry, turned vulnerability into virtue. Emotional detachment, we learned from him, is an impoverished state of...

01.11.2023 3

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Opinion: Oh Henry, What A Scandal! Who Can Do Justice To You?

Henry with Jai Anand Dehadrai and Mahua Moitra There are times when one yearns for time travel. Fervently wishing for the time machine - in any of its...

20.10.2023 8

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Opinion: How Bollywood Is Killing Indian Fashion

Indian fashion needs to cut the Gordian knot of Bollywood to become a global force to reckon with. Pick any magazine or newspaper or scroll through...

17.10.2023 8

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In war, women are always the vanquished

Israeli-Palestinian conflict perpetuates stereotypes and harms women

16.10.2023 2

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Opinion: The India-Canada Situationship - No Real Winners

"matra-sparshas tu kaunteya shitoshna-sukha-duhkha-dahagamapayino nityas tans-titikshasva bharata" The Bhagavad Gita offers the government of India...

30.09.2023 5

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Opinion: Government's Uniform Sartorial Code And Reading Into New Fashion Choices

One thing that India, or I.N.D.I.A, cannot fault - strictly objectively speaking - Prime Minister Narendra Modi for is his sartorial sense....

15.09.2023 10

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What’s the truth of Vivek Ramaswamy?

People like Ramaswamy have the ability to sow seeds of self-doubt in those who don’t strictly live by a party constitution.

11.09.2023 10

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