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Opinion Stories

The sadhu wants pulao. The snob rejects veg biryani. Culinary history disagrees with both

Shubhra Chatterji

The World Cup usually cleans up a country’s image. Not this time

Mainstream media is losing a generation. Cockroach Janta Party is merely a symptom

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Peddi wants the politics of Tamil anti-caste cinema, but without its progressive vision

Balakrishna Ganeshan

Why India cannot let the rupee float

Deepanshu Mohan

World Environment Day: Why we need local Indian languages to navigate climate change

A third language can’t fix schools that can’t deliver the first

Not a purge, a protection: SC backs EC’s voter drive as a democratic shield

Dharmendra Pradhan’s guide to surviving India’s exam crisis

Shardool Katyayan

India’s GDP revisions explained: What changed and why it matters

Pranav Trigunayat

The Cockroaches are restless: Anatomy of a 22-million-strong meme movement

All rhetoric, no resilience: Why India is still addicted to ‘majboori’

Shardool Katyayan

If Tagore were alive today, he’d be called ‘anti-national’

CJP can endure the meme cycle. But can it articulate what kind of India it’s fighting for?

Ring of concrete: The seven flyovers that will cost Hyderabad a national park

Sandeep Khurana Narasimha Reddy Donthi

Your favourite viral column might have been written by AI. Now what?

Indulekha Aravind

Election soundbites tell us less than we think. That’s the paradox of the modern state

‘Aye dil hai mushkil…’: A look at Bombay through film songs

The Dalit clock: From Ambedkar to Thirumavalavan

Peddi wants the politics of Tamil anti-caste cinema, but without its progressive vision

Balakrishna Ganeshan

Why India cannot let the rupee float

Deepanshu Mohan

World Environment Day: Why we need local Indian languages to navigate climate change

A third language can’t fix schools that can’t deliver the first

Not a purge, a protection: SC backs EC’s voter drive as a democratic shield

Dharmendra Pradhan’s guide to surviving India’s exam crisis

Shardool Katyayan

India’s GDP revisions explained: What changed and why it matters

Pranav Trigunayat

The Cockroaches are restless: Anatomy of a 22-million-strong meme movement

All rhetoric, no resilience: Why India is still addicted to ‘majboori’

Shardool Katyayan

If Tagore were alive today, he’d be called ‘anti-national’

CJP can endure the meme cycle. But can it articulate what kind of India it’s fighting for?

Ring of concrete: The seven flyovers that will cost Hyderabad a national park

Sandeep Khurana Narasimha Reddy Donthi

Your favourite viral column might have been written by AI. Now what?

Indulekha Aravind

Election soundbites tell us less than we think. That’s the paradox of the modern state

‘Aye dil hai mushkil…’: A look at Bombay through film songs

The Dalit clock: From Ambedkar to Thirumavalavan