Kohli, RCB and a Cup, at Long Last

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In its 18th season, one-franchise man Virat Kohli delivers the IPL trophy to his beloved Bengaluru

Virat Kohli of Royal Challengers Bengaluru lifts the IPL trophy alongside teammates following the team's victory in the 2025 IPL Final match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, June 3, 2025

Bengaluru’s joy turns to mourning as stampede claims 11 lives

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A Celebration, Undone

Divinity as Destiny in Ancient India

S Prasannarajan

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From Bhopalpatnam To Boter

Siddharth Singh

Maoism finds itself on the verge of extinction after a series of strategic mistakes over more than a quarter century

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The Afterlife of a Maoist

Sandeep Balakrishna

Saketh Rajan is a case study in how activists, academics and politicians were complicit in glorifying a violent insurgency

An all-party delegation led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor speaks to the media in Guyana, May 27, 2025

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Cong Versus Senior Leaders over Op Sindoor

Rajeev Deshpande

The gulf between the Congress and senior party leaders travelling with all-party delegations post Operation Sindoor reflects an inability to differentiate national security from partisan politics

RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav with party leaders Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav during the RJD's 'Jan Vishwas Maha Rally' at Gandhi Maidan, Patna, March 3, 2024

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From Patna to Hyderabad, political family feuds rock regional parties

Amita Shah

The Naxalbari uprising in its early days, West Bengal, 1967

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The Death of a Delusion

Kanchan Gupta

The Maoist project has now failed twice since it began in Naxalbari in 1967

Union Home Minister Amit Shah at an event marking the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, New Delhi, October 31, 2022

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The Slayer of Maoism

PR Ramesh

Amit Shah’s feat of defeating the six-decade-long guerrilla movement makes him the natural inheritor of the first home minister’s legacy

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Shedding Victimhood

Rajeev Deshpande

India’s diplomatic outreach signals a national consensus that Pakistan’s proxy war will invite punishment that includes the use of hard power

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How non-violent was Gandhi?

Shaan Kashyap

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s new book on the final phase of Gandhi’s life can be read in many ways. While it inspires, it also calls for greater pragmatism in the writing of history

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A firsthand account of the shadow routes of illegal migration to Europe

Alan Moore

People trafficking reaches alarming new heights as Europe’s eastern borders become human transit zones for illegal immigrants from South Asia and beyond