Todays Editorial

India’s Homegrown Tech Visionary

At a time when India’s brightest minds continue to power Silicon Valley’s billion-dollar empires, Sridhar Vembu chose a different road—the one that led back home. A proud product of IIT Madras and Princeton University, the founder of Zoho Corporation represents a rare blend of intellectual excellence, entrepreneurial daring, and patriotic conviction. In an age when…

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Pakistan Scripting Its Own Peril

For decades, Pakistan has survived by playing the role of an international blackmailer—harbouring terrorists, peddling drugs, and offering its territory as a playground for great power games. But the recent hard-hitting statements from India’s top security leadership make one thing abundantly clear: Islamabad may finally be scripting its own extinction. On Friday, both Indian Army…

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Trump’s Self-Made Mess

The United States is once again showing the world how a superpower can self-sabotage. On October 1, the nation slipped into its third government shutdown under President Donald Trump. The trigger? A standoff over funding for the 2026 fiscal year—specifically, Democrats’ push to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies. Without them, millions risk losing health…

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RSS@100: A ₹100 Tribute

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the special ₹100 coin commemorating the centenary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), it was not just a symbolic gesture—it was a moment of historic acknowledgement. At long last, the Republic officially recognised the immense, often thankless, service of an organisation that has been shaping India’s national consciousness for…

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Deterrence, Not Complacency

India’s latest strategic posture is not theatre — it is sober preparation for a peril no democracy wants to face: nuclear coercion wrapped in the chaos of conventional conflict. When the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Anil Chouhan, warned that India must be ready for radiological and related threats after Operation Sindoor, it was not…

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Pakistan on Boil

As the saying goes, What you sow, so shall you reap. Nothing fits Pakistan better. For decades, Islamabad sowed the seeds of separatism, jihad, and terror in India’s Jammu and Kashmir. Today, the flames of discontent are consuming Pakistan itself, and nowhere is this truer than in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The irony could not be…

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Stop the Blame Game

Thirty-nine lives. Snuffed out in an instant. Mothers, fathers, children—reduced to statistics in what has become one of Tamil Nadu’s worst stampedes in recent memory. And yet, even before the bodies were cremated, the political circus began. Instead of grief and accountability, what the people of Karur, Tamil Nadu, and India at large have been…

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Echoes of 1971

History has a way of circling back. When President Richard Nixon insulted Indira Gandhi in 1971, armed Pakistan to the teeth, and courted China, he imagined India could be intimidated. Instead, India forged the Indo-Soviet Treaty and emerged victorious in the liberation of Bangladesh. Today, under President Donald Trump’s erratic hand, we see troubling shades…

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DRDO’s Agni Triumph

India has just crossed another milestone in its long march toward strategic self-reliance. With the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully developing mobile launch systems for the Agni series of ballistic missiles, the country has joined an exclusive club of military powers, till now restricted to the United States and China. For once, this…

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