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Has the idea that made the original Shiv Sena a formidable political force passed its time?

Cuba is not the Soviet Union. It is not even Venezuela. And it’s not North Korea, although it resembles it sans tropics. But it has something the others lacked: the romantic aura of its own founding m ...

Uddhav Thackeray underestimated the Modi effect

At a time when Iran was at war with the US, picking more fights did not make sense. As for India, a watch and wait policy was more prudent than offering homilies on a conflict it was in no position to ...

Tehran appears to have handed Trump the pretext he needed, at exactly the moment least advantageous to itself. And it seems to have misjudged what Trump’s response would be

A string of shutdowns in India’s private FM radio business has left the industry grappling with questions about its future. Streaming emerges as an obvious reason but it is not the only one

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