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Four questions Indians must ask about Operation Sindoor

It is unclear what the offensive achieved. But what it revealed is stark.

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Interview: US claiming credit for ceasefire sets Indian foreign policy back by decades

Donald Trump’s public interventions negate India’s view that any crisis with Pakistan and Kashmir are bilateral issues, said defence expert Sushant Singh.

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Interview: ‘Op Sindoor won't stop terror; conflict with India existential for Pak Army’

Christine Fair, a professor at Georgetown University and possibly the world’s leading expert on the Pakistani Army, in conversation with Shoaib Daniyal.

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In Manipur, Kuki-Zo women are protesting customary ‘settlement’ of rape, domestic violence cases

Two such agreements in April have allowed alleged perpetrators – including a man accused of raping a child – to walk away by paying a fine.

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Biography: How John Matthai, India’s second finance minister, handled the devaluation of the rupee

An excerpt from ‘Honest John: A Life of John Matthai’, by Bakhtiar K Dadabhoy.

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Swachh Bharat Mission: Caste and contracts in sanitation work

The thrust on encouraging toilet use did not consider how increased pressure on sewage systems, alongside privatisation, would reproduce caste-based labour.

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The Congolese philosopher who liberated ‘Africa’ from the chains of Western thought

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe was one of the most influential African thinkers of the 20th century.

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