Opinion
Opinion | What 2024 Holds for Indian Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities
2024 holds a tapestry of diplomatic challenges and opportunities for Indiaplomacy, shaped by elections, geopolitical realignments and regional dynamics
The Boy from Vadnagar: How Modi’s Bond with Temples, Spirituality, Sangh And Saints Was Formed in Childhood
A peek at Narendra Modi’s formative years explains why Ram is not a symbol of politics to him. Understanding the essence of ‘Bharatiyata’ is impossible without Ram. Ram is the biggest symbol of India’s civilisation and bearer of the thousands of years old...
Opinion | Dangers to Commercial Shipping Posed by Drones and Mitigation Measures
While drones can enhance monitoring, data collection, and efficiency, they also pose various dangers, including privacy concerns, collision risks, navigational interference, and the potential for illicit activities
Opinion | India’s Growth Trajectory And Economic Outlook For 2024
Most forecasts for 2024-25 are in the range of 6.5 to 7.0 per cent. For calendar year 2024, we shouldn’t be surprised if growth exceeds 7 per cent, even if marginally
Opinion | Historic Peace Deal With ULFA: Another Feather in Modi’s Cap
The Modi government’s mantra of development and peace has endowed its practitioners with patriotic might and concerted state action has won the day
Opinion | Terrorists, Migrants And Drugs: Modern World’s Diethylamide
Despite every nation having a national strategy for combating terrorism and a decade of experimenting with various counter-terrorism strategies, there is no respite from the scourge of terrorism being unleashed by people of particular religious denominati...
Opinion | Modi-led NDA vs INDI Alliance: Which Side Has The Upper Hand For 2024 Elections?
While Team Modi is in mission mode to micromanage minutiae details from assessing cadre preparedness of ‘panna pramukhs’ to assessing the extent of saturation of Viksit Bharat schemes, the Opposition still struggles to find consensus on leadership
Opinion | The Melody Coming From Italy And India Grates On China’s Ears
Italy’s move constitutes not only a distancing from international frameworks under Chinese control, but also a clear support of Indian-led international frameworks and vision
Opinion | The Afghanistan-Pakistan Conundrum
The expulsion of the Afghan refugees complicates the relationship between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban, which is already fraught with deep mistrust, and holds diametrical opposite views on the nature of the Durand line
Opinion | ‘Sam Bahadur’: A Film That Inspires You For Lifetime And Fills You With Patriotism
The film is gripping and comes out as very authentic, real and honest. It gives a clear insight into the thought process, courage, wit and decision-making of the great Sam Manekshaw
Opinion | Supreme Court Upholds Article 370 Abrogation: PM Modi’s Historic Gambit
The Supreme Court verdict on Monday regarding Article 370 abrogation is a huge endorsement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Kashmir policy
Opinion | Being Hindu in Bangladesh: No Light at the End of the Tunnel
On an average, as of 2016, 632 people from the minority community leave Bangladesh each day. Deep Halder and Avishek Biswas’ book explores what it means ‘being Hindu in Bangladesh’
Opinion | Modi All the Way: What Does BJP’s Hat-Trick in Hindi Heartland Mean For Opposition?
Unless the Congress submits to an effective pre-poll coalition, with a credible figure at the helm, 2024 will be a repeat of the assembly elections
Opinion | Silkyara Rescue Operation is PM Modi’s Masterclass in Disaster Management
Uttarakhand, under the double-engine BJP government in 2023, has shown to the world how adversity and a potential disaster can be surmounted by super-efficient leadership that thinks and acts
Opinion | Pannun Saga: In Spy Vs Spy, Unwritten Codes Need to be Harmonised
In the US, the threats that Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has made are serious. If such threats were made against President Joe Biden in India, the US would demand action within 48 hours
Dharma Files | Tracing the Roots of Hostility Among Jews, Christians and Muslims
The hostility among the three religions has deep historical roots, going way back to around 1800 BCE