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The Name Of The Rose
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Taliban rift at the top of the leadership in Afghanistan
The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are dividing the group at the very top.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Make America Wild Again
Trump, Tariffs, and the Rewiring of the American Empire
"Trump’s tariff wars are generating uncertainty, pockets of economic dislocation, an erosion of trust in the United States, and amplifying the risks inherent in China–U.S. competition," writes Pratap ...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Incredulous Trumpet
Greenland: new shipping routes, hidden minerals – and a frontline between the US and Russia?
Key maps show the growing strategic importance of Greenland as Arctic ice melts under global heating
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January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Frozen Turbulence
At a Time When India Needs Progress, We Have Revenge Rhetoric from the NSA
What is most disturbing is that if someone as educated, experienced and seemingly emancipated as NSA Ajit Doval can urge people to look backwards in anger, what message does that send to society at la...
thewire.in
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Unfinished Agenda
Anatomy of a Political Raid: From Lalu to Mamata
There appears to be a meticulously designed pattern in the deployment of investigative agencies under the cover of the Election Commission by the present regime at the centre. It's been an open secret...
thewire.in
January 14, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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‘प्रेमचंद: ज़हन ज़माना आर्ट’
प्रेमचंद को याद करते हुए…
कभी-कभार | अशोक वाजपेयी: जिस ‘महाजनी सभ्यता’ का प्रेमचंद ने विरोध किया था उस सभ्यता ने हमारे लोकतंत्र पर, कम से कम शासनतंत्र पर, कब्ज़ा कर लिया है. जिस साहित्य को प्रेमचंद ने कभी देशभक्ति और राजनीति के...
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January 11, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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Winter is coming
Trump and the Dangers of Spheres of Influence
"Attempting to reorganize the world around spheres of influence is a recipe for disaster. Trump’s Venezuela intervention has brought us a big step closer," write Comfort Ero and Richard Atwood
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January 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Make America Wild Again
Why the white America Trump dreams of is just a fantasy
Blocking immigration will not make Trump’s America great again – for the US to shine, he must let it get browner
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January 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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A Walk Up The Hill
What Madhav Gadgil (1942-2026) wrote on the importance of sacred groves in ecological protection
An ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Madhav Gadgil died on January 7, at the age of 83.
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January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
No Other Choice
‘I haven’t mellowed my violence’: Park Chan-wook on cultural dominance, the capitalist endgame and why we can’t beat AI
His brutal movies put Korean cinema on the map. Now the director of Oldboy is back with a blistering satire about a man driven to murder after redundancy
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January 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Rahul Bedi
Why the Air Force Is Turning Back to the Rafale – and Why It’s Costly
The IAF's possible return to Rafale under MRFA underscores how abandoning the MMRCA programme eroded squadron strength, domestic aerospace capacity and long-term strategic autonomy.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Coming Out as Dhurandhar
How Hindi Cinema is Preparing India for Violence
Once humiliation is naturalised as a civilisational condition, violence no longer appears as aggression but as rectification.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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www.salon.com/2026/01/08/w...
Make America Wild Again
War has become fashionable again for the GOP
The right's detour into pacifism under Trump was never going to stick
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January 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Rahul Bedi
Why India's Overreliance on Russian S-400 Missile Defence Systems is a Strategic Gamble
The fundamental vulnerability in India’s enduring dependence on Russian materiel lies less in evaluating its overall battlefield performance, but more in Moscow’s ability to sustain these capabilities...
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January 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Incredulous Trumpet
MEA should stop living in dread of Trump. We’ve lived through Nixon before
Donald Trump seems to have rejected the old assumptions. He does not care that India is the world’s largest democracy. As for the Indian market, he wants access on his own terms.
theprint.in
January 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Bloody Brothers
Blood brothers
It is shocking to realise that the self-conception of the nation now accommodates, indeed, foregrounds, both the calm superiority of the vishwaguru and the bloodthirsty violence of Dhurandhar
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January 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Animal Farm
María Corina Machado vows to return to Venezuela and rejects rule of Maduro’s deputy
Opposition leader says her movement is ready to win a fair election and praises Trump for toppling the president
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January 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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The Second Coming
Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and The Moral Arc of the Universe - The Wire
For anyone who cares to see things as they are, Umar and Sharjeel pose no threat to India. They are a threat only to an ideology that refuses to accept the idea of India as enshrined in the constituti...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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A Tryst with Destiny
After SC Denies Umar Khalid Bail, Chants Of "Modi Teri Kabar.." In JNU Spark Controversy
YouTube video by Mojo Story
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January 6, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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Baptism by fire
Baptism by fire
Born when free speech was manacled, INDIA TODAY hit the ground running. Its fearless, objective journalism revolutionised the media industry
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January 4, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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Occidental Savagery
The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas
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January 4, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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The fall of Maduro
The Peril of Ousting Maduro
Only a gradual transition—not regime change by corce—can restore Venezuela’s democracy.
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January 4, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Occidental Savagery
‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US
Most of the Americas have suffered from interference from their powerful northern neighbour – and are usually the worse off for it
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January 4, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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Homeless on Google Earth
Two cosmopolitans
Why sectarians detest Umar Khalid and Zohran Mamdani
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January 4, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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Midnight's Children
The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech
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January 2, 2026 at 4:58 AM