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Deterrence Revisited

For more than two decades, India’s nuclear doctrine has been treated as a settled matter.

Counting Care

For generations, Indian society has perfected a contradiction.

The Fifth Stream ~ II

The question remains even today: on what legal basis can the Jana Sangh or the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh conclusively be called fascist? They were accused of being anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, but these accusations were never decisively established in legal terms.

H-1B ruling offers respite to Indians

On 8 June, a US federal judge in Boston struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, ruling it an unlawful tax that Congress never authorized.

Exercise in Futility

When the Supreme Court of India recently dismissed a petition to ban Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, it sent out a powerful message: book banning is a relic of the past.

Quality learning can accelerate growth

A nation is recognized by the presence of educated, rational and responsible citizens ,just as the strength, potential and purpose of an apple tree are inferred from ripe and nutritious apples and not from the hundreds of fruits that remain undeveloped , immature and insect-ridden.

Digital Threat

India’s most recognisable faces are discovering that stardom, once a source of effortless influence, now demands a new kind of vigilance. The rise of artificial intelligence has made it alarmingly easy to copy a voice, fabricate a video or splice a photograph into a persuasive but false reality.

Peril in the Sky

A 13-year-old Afghan boy accomplished what should have been impossible: surviving a flight from Kabul to Delhi by hiding in the landing-gear compartment of a commercial aircraft.