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Noor Wali Mehsud and Pakistan: From Ally to Adversary – A Tale of Betrayal, Blowback, and Lessons for India
The story of Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), is Pakistan’s self-made tragedy. A nation that used militancy as a foreign-policy tool now faces the...
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How Mangaluru Beat Goa to Become the Silicon Beach of India
For years, Goa was seen as the natural candidate to become India’s “Silicon Beach.” Blessed with a cosmopolitan...
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Nourished India, Educated India: The Akshaya Patra Mission That India Must Own
There are moments in life when you come across a mission so pure, so purposeful, and so aligned...
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Ladakh on the Boil: From Silent Sentinel to Faultline
A Land Between Mountains and EmpiresLadakh is India’s sentinel on the roof of the world. A high desert...
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Bulldozers, Bias & the Bench: When “Satisfaction” Overshadows Law
When Chief Justice of India B. R. Gavai recently remarked that banning bulldozer actions gave him “immense satisfaction,”...
INS Varsha: India’s Secretive Fortress for Nuclear Deterrence
About 50 kilometers south of Visakhapatnam, near the coastal village of Rambilli in Andhra Pradesh, something significant is taking shape. This is INS Varsha,...
Where the Sun Meets the Soul: The Shared Spirit of Donyi Polo and Sanatan Dharma
This article would have remained unwritten had it not been for a quiet conversation with Rinku, a dear friend I’ve known since 1987. A...
Echoes Across Mountains and Millennia: What the Druze and Sanatan Dharma Share
The Journey of the Soul: Taqammus and PunarjanmaIn a remote Druze household in Suwayda, a grandmother once whispered to her grandson that he was...
The Mountain Does Not Kneel: The Druze of Suwayda in Post-Assad Syria
At dawn, as the sky blushes above the black basalt of Jabal al-Druze, an old shepherd kneels beside a spring near Salkhad, whispering verses...
Missiles in the Monsoon: India Tests Its Arsenal, But Who Should Fear?
A Thunderclap Over the BayIt was a humid monsoon morning at Chandipur, Odisha. A lone myna bird fluttered off its perch as the...
Bangladesh on the Brink: A Nation Struggles with Its Past, Present, and Future
A Land Stirred by Memory and MovementIn the heartland of Gopalganj, where the scent of jute fields once spoke of Bengal’s quiet pride...