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Cannes 2023 | A marketplace for influencers: How did it get so massy?
From classy to massy, the Cannes Film Festival or Festival de Cannes is no longer a place for directors, actors and film critics, but influencers take it all.
Why the Benin Bronzes saga has important lessons for India
The West may use divide-and-don’t-repatriate tactic on the treasures India wants back too
Why Narendra Modi uses his PR genius in India and abroad: Four good reasons
While Modi’s opponents accept his mastery over PR with disdain, one wonders if they privately and honestly analyse why he needed to be so good at that skill in the first place
From Dahaad to Kathal: Women help illustrate the socio-political absurdities of our times
The women in both Dahaad and Kathal operate in different genres, but seem to occupy the similarly flawed worlds. It adds nuance to the way we contemplate our socio-political problems
Is Central Asia still 'central' in Eurasian geopolitics?
In these complex geopolitics of Central Asia in particular and Eurasia in general, one witnesses India’s emergence as a major geopolitical actor in shaping the geopolitical trajectories
Bloom Review: How the West finally gets its views on Khalistanis right by examining them through prism of terrorism
A Khalistani tactic common with terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, Lashkar and ISIS is the distortion, misrepresentation and selective use of historical incidents, contexts and tales to legitimise their violent and extremist activity and hatred towards Hindus
Enthadaa Saji movie review: A vague script on divine intervention that desperately needed some
Enthadaa Saji is a pale shadow of the many intelligent Malayalam films that have been set among Kerala's Christian minority and have critiqued the community with depth. Even Kunchacko Boban's charisma cannot save this wannabe project
Beyond the Lines | Why dictators hate democracies: How Pakistan’s early choices decided its future
Military dictators are terrified of popular civilian leaders and are forever conspiring to make political dissent disappear — and they are likely to succeed using the force at their command, especially in a country such as Pakistan whose people are unfamiliar with freedom and democracy
Dedollarisation and internationalisation of rupee: Why it remains a distant dream
Indian rupee is not a fully convertible and freely tradable currency yet and the country still remains an insignificant player in global trade
Why limiting deliberations to tackle climate challenges to G7 or G20 groups reflect lack of global 'political will'
The members of G7 or to some extent the members of G20, have leverages to build such rules-based policy, but the rest of the countries, more than 180 of them, cannot contribute much to this process
After Karnataka, Kharge still has two more challenges to tackle
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, like Manmohan Singh of 2004-14 era, has to cater to the likes, reward loyalties and present a somewhat youthful and professional face of the grand old party
From rare earth mining to border surveillance: Sectors where India-US partnership requires a boost
The US-India partnership requires long term investments and critical technology transfers to make an impact. Two largest democracies need each other in today’s world of shifting alliances
Weather report: As IMD announces onset of Monsoon over Nicobar, pre-Monsoon rains to strengthen across India
The upcoming week till 28 May is expected to be washed out by heavy rains in multiple states of India except Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa where rains will be significantly lesser and dry and hot weather will prevail
Takeaways from Modi-Zelenskyy meeting: PM demonstrated why India’s global stature has seen a meteoric rise
When PNG president James Marape breaks protocol to receive Modi at airport and bows down to touch his feet, it gives an indication of India’s place in the world
Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai movie review: Manoj Bajpayee shines in a gripping courtroom drama
Manoj Bajpayee’s Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai is a biopic on a humble lawyer from Rajasthan, Advocate PC Solanki who brought justice to a minor girl who was sexually assaulted by a self-styled godman. under the POCSO Act
BJP’s Karnataka disaster wasn’t just about corruption, it was also about state’s failure to stand up to Islamist terror
The party and the government it led in Karnataka not just failed to protect Hindutva activists, but also didn’t do enough to look after the families of those killed during the previous Congress dispensation
From Goethe to Ghalib: The Weimar-Delhi connection
Despite the differences in language and culture, the works of Goethe and Ghalib share a common thread of intellectual depth, emotional richness, and aesthetic beauty
Right Word | Withdrawal of Rs 2,000 currency notes is a death blow to narco-terror nexus
The withdrawal of Rs 2,000 notes has come as a major setback to anti-India forces as their financial life line has been crushed with this decision
Why Kate’s paparazzi policy may be wiser than Harry and Meghan’s
Earning the goodwill of the public by understanding their interest and trying to address it, can tame the paparazzi and also benefit the ‘papped’
Dharma Files | The delicate nature of different religions
Every major religious tradition of the world, in some aspect of it, represents a very delicate balance it has achieved, which is among its greatest achievements but, at the same time, may represent its greatest vulnerability