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Cricket in Troubled Times
The Wire, 20 September 2025 Sixteen young men gathered across the picturesque Lolab valley in Kashmir’s Kupwara district a week after the May 10 ceasefire brought a halt to the military conflict between India and Pakistan. The day was both sunny and cloudy, casting shadows over the sprawling valley ringed by deodar trees. Carefree and…
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India-Pakistan tensions: The idea of peace is alive, but not kicking
The hostilities have silenced peace-building networks, hurt workers and families, and replaced dialogue with televised aggression.
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Political leadership: Does gender make a difference?
A mere handful of women are in top positions in politics and government across the world. According to recent data published by the United Nations, just 18 countries have a woman Head of State, and 16 countries have a woman…
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How AI And Advanced Tech Are Reshaping The Battlefield
War is no longer confined to the traditional remits of land, air and sea. The weaponisation of information flows and cyberspace, and the use of AI are changing how wars are being conceived.
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In India, climate change affects women’s health
Fisherwomen in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans grapple with complex health issues and are very hindered by their lack of access to healthcare.
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Beyond disaster and wildlife in the Sundarbans
A quarterly magazine on the Sundarbans defies mainstream media’s stereotypes about the region.
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The Rohingya Refugees Who Show Life In Bangladesh Through Instagram
Instagram is their window to the world and a means of asserting their existence.
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India’s tough talk on Kashmir belies its lobbying for US support
Modi wants Indian citizens to believe he will not brook western interference in domestic affairs. India’s extensive lobbying efforts in Washington suggest a different reality.
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Hunting for crabs in the shadow of the Bengal tiger
Pushed deeper into the mangrove forests, fisherwomen in the Sundarbans work in constant fear of tigers
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Does India have enough insurance coverage for a nuclear disaster?
India has barely half the insurance amount required by law for its current nuclear plants, and has many more plants in the works.
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The Curious Case of the Democratic Party of India
The Indian Embassy likely used a dubious entity to lobby US Congresspersons after the abrogation of Article 370 – US government documents show
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Why nuclear industry’s comeback hopes rest on very thin ice
Nuclear power might not be the way out of the ongoing global energy crisis.
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Is India the Arms Exporter it Claims to Be?
The government’s desire to project India as a significant defence exporter are more apparent on paper than in the order books.
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French nuclear power reactors in India: Are they worth the wait (and cost)?
Why is the Indian government insistent on purchasing French EPRs which have a record of being over budget and massively delayed?
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Review: India’s “Rocket Boys” series fetishizes science-and the atomic bomb-in a dangerous way
While Rocket Boys makes for engaging drama, does it tell this story with due diligence to scientific and historical facts? Unfortunately, the answer is resoundingly in the negative.
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Bipolar disorder: The group changing attitudes about the conditions
Living with bipolar disorder is not easy. Many people do not understand the condition and patients suffer discrimination as a result. An online community in India is now trying to change such attitudes.
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India’s refusal to side with the West should not be interpreted as a revival of its non-alignment policy
India’s continuing aggressive and muscular foreign policy, in line with the vision of its right-wing government whose authoritarian tendencies are increasingly evident, at home and abroad
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Israel has long exported arms to India. Now it’s selling spyware too
Prime Minister Modi’s silence through the political storm around Pegasus and what is being called India’s Watergate moment is conspicuous
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‘I didn’t want others to know I had miscarried’
Saline river water, intensifying climate change and poor public healthcare is playing havoc with women’s health in the Sundarbans.
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Is a shadow presidency fueling the gas-prices fire in oil-rich Kazakhstan?
A citizens’ uprising takes Kazakhstan by storm. Socio-economic inequalities and neglect of workers’ rights might be at play.
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India has long suppressed antinuclear activism. Still, activists persist
India’s nuclear programme has a history of encountering stiff resistance.
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What’s known—and not known—about India’s nuclear weapons budget
India provides precious little information on nuclear weapons expenditure thus raising questions on accountability and transparency.
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Think tanks in India and the United States and the alignment of state and corporate goals
India and the United States have maintained their ties through wide-ranging means and mechanisms including think tanks supported by corporations and government.
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Parent Entity: The Jaishankars blur the lines between the ministry of external affairs and Reliance-funded ORF
India’s most prominent think tank launches its Washington operations. The son of India’s External Affairs Minister is in the thick of it.
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Getting away with murder
A study on the killings of and attacks on journalists in India, 2014–2019, and justice delivery in these cases.
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