Aditi Bhaduri Early in 2024, I had met X, a lawyer from Bangladesh. Suave, articulate and glamorous, she was in Kolkata and planning to host with others a World Bengali Congress. She was despondent a
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Shashi Tharoor As 2025 draws to a close, India finds itself navigating a turbulent regional environment. The year has been marked by Pakistan's uneasy economic stabilisation and Bangladesh's dramatic
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Shishir Priyadarshi The passage of the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025, by the Lok Sabha on December 17 marks a decisive inflexion p
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Nishtha Gautam "Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion." The morning of December 16, 1971, was one such dream, delivered nine months after it was first dreamt on March 26. The bir
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Jayanta GhosalAfter much back and forth, the election in Bangladesh was finally announced for February 12. Tarique Rahman, the son of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, promised that the e
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Shashi TharoorIn the halls of Parliament, we are used to debating laws that are dry, technical, and frankly, often boring. But every now and then, a piece of paper lands in our inboxes that threatens
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