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Editorial: Time to grow a spine, MEA
India’s foreign policy aspires to a big voice on the global stage, but it tends to speak loudly when the issue is generic and falls silent when the...
Hope rekindled: Cease-fire reached, leadership needed
11 Oct 2025 6:10 AM ISTAfter years of war and ruin, Gaza wakes to an unfamiliar quiet — a cease-fire brokered in Sharm el Sheikh offers a flicker of hope. Now begins the...
Editorial: A shoe thrown at the Republic
10 Oct 2025 9:54 AM ISTPerhaps that was the intent after all. The fact that he carried a chit bearing that slogan suggests premeditation. The incident seems to have been...
Austen and theory of mind: how literary fiction sharpens your...
10 Oct 2025 9:51 AM ISTHowever, she is unaware of the real reasons behind his words, while Darcy, for his part, does not realise that he has been overheard. Thus begins an...
Red scare 2.0: America’s worst moments redux
10 Oct 2025 9:50 AM ISTAfter the war, Southern reactionaries cried “states rights.” But before it, they eagerly wielded federal power to crush their opponents. They used...
Blackout lesssons: Af ban on girls' education goes online
10 Oct 2025 6:10 AM ISTTo evade the Taliban’s ban on female secondary education, Afghan girls and women have flocked to online courses. But a recent two-day internet...
Editorial: Lanka’s fragile fiscal balancing
9 Oct 2025 8:30 AM ISTThe World Bank’s latest Sri Lanka Development Update, titled Better Spending for All, has projected a lower growth rate of 3.5% in 2026 as against...
Commando at 40: Schwarzenegger’s bonanza of bullets, bad guys and...
9 Oct 2025 6:40 AM ISTI found that the film’s mature age contrasts with its juvenile absurdity, which I absorbed all too easily when I first saw it, far too young, as a...
