Politics

The BJP’s Ganesha Gambit

Pune’s Ganeshotsav has become an enormous civic and political stage, and the ruling party has proved adept at occupying it. Pune: The city’s Ganeshotsav is entering its final phase, but the festival has already demonstrated something beyond its extraordinary crowds...
Cultural 
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The GDP Reality Check

AI generated image The controversy over India’s latest GDP numbers have acquired an importance that extends beyond the economy. The Q1 2026-27 estimate has prompted accusations by some quarters that the BJP-led Central government allegedly manipulated the statistical base to...
Business 
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Kid’s memorable Rahul treasure

Mumbai: For kids, politics can wait. At a party training camp, Congress Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi was chatting animatedly with Jalna district chief Kalyan Dale and his family. Just then, Dale’s 9-year old grandson Swaraj Nilesh Dale came into...
General 
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Rajesh Kshirsagar walks into a political trap

The Shiv Sena MLA has chosen confrontation over the Shaktipeeth Expressway risking political isolation Kolhapur: Shiv Sena MLA Rajesh Kshirsagar’s aggressive support to the proposed Shaktipeeth Expressway has brought him face-to-face with former MP Raju Shetti. But the political fallout...
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Urban Apathy

The numbers emerging from Maharashtra’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls are striking, but they should not be read simply as a story of voter exclusion. They are also a warning about urban voter apathy and mobility that are...
Editorial 
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Three Languages, One English-Dominated Reality

India’s language debate has become a political balancing act while schools, higher education and workplaces continue to reward English. AI generated image In early August, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin unveiled the state’s two bilingual policy of using Tamil...
Education 
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Dialogue, Not Disruption

The Union government’s latest initiative, the 'One Day, One University' programme, aims to deploy Union Ministers to higher education institutions across India on a daily basis to interact directly with Generation Z. As reported, this ambitious initiative seeks to create...
Education 
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Selective Pluralism

There is something deeply revealing about the reflexive hostility of the global ‘Left-liberal’ establishment and their Westernized Indian counterparts towards the RSS. It seems less interested in what the organisation actually says than in what it has decided the organisation...
Editorial 
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From Liberalisation to Scale: India’s Next Reform Challenge

Three decades of reform have transformed India’s economy. It must now dismantle the barriers that prevent growth from scaling. The period from 2014 to 2019 marked a significant turn in India’s economic strategy, with a strong emphasis on formalising the...
Business 
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Cap air travel ‘CF’ upto one pc

AI generated image Mumbai/Nagpur: A consumer rights panel has sought urgent intervention by the government to a ‘systematic exploitation of fliers by a cartel’ comprising commercial airlines and online travel portals through arbitrary and exorbitant ‘Convenience Fees’ (CF) – estimated...
Aviation 
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Congress Shakes Off Its Lethargy

Rahul Gandhi’s student outreach is giving the Congress a boost in western Maharashtra but converting street energy into electoral momentum will be the harder task. Pune: For a party that has spent much of the past dozen years looking politically...
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Patriarchy Politics

Rahul Gandhi’s latest clarion call to “smash patriarchy” is less a revolutionary manifesto than yet another of the Congress scion’s revealing exercises in political condescension. It presumes that Indian women need to be told what their liberation should look like...
Editorial 
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