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The Financial-Geopolitical Complex: When Balance Sheets Become Battlefields

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Innovation, Crony Capitalism And The Price Society Pays

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As AI Rapidly Proliferates, It Is Essential To Declare The Right To Think As A Fundamental Human Right

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Gen Z’s Digital Shorthand: IYKYK & The Rise Of Cultural Codes

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North Korea’s Nuclear Trajectory: Lessons From Previous Nuclear Powers

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Dollar Hegemony, Economic Warfare & The Architecture Of Subjugation

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The AI Accountability Gap

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The Politics Of Humiliation & The New Global Disorder

AI, Persuasion & The Erosion of Human Agency

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The Industry of Ruin: How War Drives Profits

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The Normalisation of Brutality

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The Banality Of Execution: How Israel Institutionalised Apartheid

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Vaping & The Politics Of Partial Truths

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Iran, Diego Garcia & The Changing Geometry Of War

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How America’s War On Iran Is Reshaping The Global Oil Trade

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The Illusion Of Human Control In AI-Accelerated Warfare

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The Grammar Of Kindness

Moltbook And The Rise Of Machine Societies

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Is Life Inherently Meaningless?

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What Trump’s Autocracy Means For America

Why The World Must Be Grateful To Donald Trump

The Persistence Of Caste In India’s Army

Editor's Picks, Opinion

In Defence Of Pessimism

Editor's Picks, Opinion

Mystification By Numbers: Googol, Google & Others

Insight, Latest Posts

The Beatles’ Last Trip to India: Fame, Meditation & The Unravelling Of A Band

Trump’s Dangerous Doctrine

by Madras Courier

Donald Trump’s threat to “annihilate” Iran at the United Nations General Assembly are dangerous and delusional.

Pablo Neruda: Poet, Communist, Rapist

by Rajen Harshé

Orangutans, Komodos And A Vanishing Wild

by Gurjit Singh

AI Will Kill Us All—Will It?

by Jayakhosh Chidambaran

Beholding

by Jaya G Nair

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EDITOR'S PICKS

Editor's Picks, PolicyAugust 17, 2026<September 9, 2026

The Financial-Geopolitical Complex: When Balance Sheets Become Battlefields

by Jayakhosh Chidambaran

Art & Poetry, Editor's PicksAugust 15, 2026<August 24, 2026

The Freedom We Still Owe

by Ekalavya

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Editor's Picks, OpinionAugust 13, 2026<September 9, 2026

Innovation, Crony Capitalism And The Price Society Pays

by Sumit Bhaduri

Editor's Picks, PolicyAugust 11, 2026<September 9, 2026

As AI Rapidly Proliferates, It Is Essential To Declare The Right To Think As A Fundamental Human Right

by Chintal Barot

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POLICY

India’s Next Strategic Vulnerability: Its Submarine Fibre-Optic Network

by Shrenik Rao

India’s digital economy depends on an invisible network whose vulnerabilities extend far beyond its shores.

The Financial-Geopolitical Complex: When Balance Sheets Become Battlefields

by Jayakhosh Chidambaran

As AI Rapidly Proliferates, It Is Essential To Declare The Right To Think As A Fundamental Human Right

by Chintal Barot

The Hungry Century: Food, Power And The Unmaking Of The Global Order

by Jayakhosh Chidambaran

The Space Race & The New Great Game

by Shrenik Rao

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Opinion

Latest Posts, OpinionSeptember 24, 2026<September 23, 2026

Trump’s Dangerous Doctrine

by Madras Courier

Latest Posts, OpinionSeptember 21, 2026<September 20, 2026

AI Will Kill Us All—Will It?

by Jayakhosh Chidambaran

Latest Posts, OpinionSeptember 17, 2026<September 17, 2026

From Yemen’s Civil War To A Crisis On The World’s Shipping Routes

by P Ananth Kumar

Latest Posts, OpinionSeptember 16, 2026<September 16, 2026

The Antibiotic Gap In India’s Food-Safety Regime

by Akhter Rasool

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Environment

Orangutans, Komodos And A Vanishing Wild

by Gurjit Singh

From orangutans to Komodo dragons, Indonesia’s extraordinary wildlife reveals the vulnerability of a changing natural world.

What Volcanoes Taught Me About Diplomacy

by Gurjit Singh

A Strong El Niño Is Coming. What Does It Mean for the World?

by Kamini Vadana

What Nepal’s Glacier Collapse Reveals About A Warming Himalaya

by Kamini Vadana

Eleven Days at Sea: Fraggle, The Bat, And The Limits Of Knowing Another Mind

by Ghulam Mohammad Khan

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INSIGHT

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Insight, Latest PostsSeptember 11, 2026<September 10, 2026

William Makepeace Thackeray, India And English Nabobs

by Chetan Saini

Insight, Latest PostsSeptember 3, 2026<September 9, 2026

Rabies Has Been Preventable For More Than A Century. So Why Are People Still Dying?

by Robinson Mohanraj

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Insight, Latest PostsAugust 27, 2026<September 9, 2026

The Forgotten Swedish Gambit That Shook The English East India Company

by Suprateek Choudhury

Insight, Latest PostsAugust 19, 2026<September 9, 2026

What It Feels Like To ‘Love’ An AI Bot

by Ekalavya

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Biography

Pablo Neruda: Poet, Communist, Rapist

by Rajen Harshé

Pablo Neruda, known for his poetry and for championing human rights, raped a Dalit Sri Lankan woman.

Fardunji Murzban: The Runaway Boy Who Founded India’s Oldest Newspaper

by Madras Courier

Savarkar’s Views On Sanatana Dharma

by Govindan Nair

No Full Stops: Remembering Mark Tully

by Madras Courier

Nehru’s Scientific Temper & A Vision For A Rational India

by Madras Courier

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Art & Poetry

Art & Poetry, Latest PostsSeptember 19, 2026<September 18, 2026

Beholding

by Jaya G Nair

Art & Poetry, Latest PostsSeptember 12, 2026<September 11, 2026

From The Pulpit

by Pragya Dhiman

Art & Poetry, Latest PostsSeptember 5, 2026<September 5, 2026

God’s Creator

by Ankita Sharma

Art & Poetry, Latest PostsAugust 29, 2026<August 28, 2026

Nesting Under A Flyover

by Bharti Mehra

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Books & Films

Glamour, Grammar, And The Magic Wand of A.I.

by Amal Fabian

Why has the glamour in grammar disappeared? From magic and memory to machines and micro-aggressions, here’s a meditation on grammar’s fading glamour in the age of artificial intelligence.

Breaking Boundaries: The Rock Band With Learning Disabilities

by Madras Courier

When The Stars Lean Closer

by Ghulam Mohammad Khan

Tintin in Kolkata: The Real-Life Inspirations For Hergé’s Quirky Sidekick

by Kamini Vadana

Saddam Hussein & His Blood Qur’an

by Madras Courier

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