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From Ice Stupas to a Youth Satyagraha : Sonam Wangchuk’s Next Mountain

Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury His forced hospitalisation has interrupted a historic fast, but it cannot be allowed to interrupt the struggle for examination integrity, educational justice and dignified opportunities for India’s young. A Hospital Bed, but Not the End A...
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RBI’s US$106 Billion Forward Position: The Art of Financial Necromancy

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has accumulated a record US$106 billion short U.S. dollar forward position, a strategy designed to prop up the rupee while maintaining the polite fiction that our reserves are as untouched as a politician's conscience....
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From "Vishwa Guru" to "Vishwa Gangster": India’s Latest Export Success Story

By Nisith Dey So, the U.S. Department of Justice just dropped the curtains on "Operation Hard Ball," and it turns out India is finally moving up in the world—right alongside the cartels of Mexico and Colombia. Remember when being an...
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Do Not Let the Engineer of Hope Become a Martyr

The man who made ice stand upright is now placing his own body between India’s young people and a system that has failed them. As Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike enters its sixteenth day, the Republic must choose dialogue before obituary.
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When the Hundi Opened: Why the Ram Mandir Donation Scandal Matters Beyond Ayodhya

For three decades, the Ram Janmabhoomi movement functioned as the single most consequential political project in independent India. It was not simply a campaign to build a temple; it was the emotional and organisational engine that carried the Bharatiya...
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Mongla Port: Between Commerce and Contestation in the Bay of Bengal

Explore Mongla Port's growing strategic role in the Bay of Bengal as trade, regional connectivity, and geopolitical competition reshape South Asia.
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