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1 month ago | 
ndtv.com | Madhavan Narayanan |Dinesh Narayanan |Mahesh Sachdev |Nishtha Gautam
Opinion | So, Why Has Apple Stuck To Its Chennai Plan Despite Trump's 'Warning'? Tim Cook is likely bothered more about what shareholders and analysts think of the way he manages his company's huge cash pile - estimated at well over $300 billion - than an oddball statement from Trump about moving all production to America.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | Nishtha Gautam
What is worse than an outrageous statement made by someone of note? Writing about it. What is worse than writing about it? Researching about it. What is worse than researching it? Thinking about it. What is worse than thinking about it? Making sure that all this thinking is counted as ‘work' that is being clocked on a daily basis. Work. It's an agent of both Eros and Thanatos. We live for and love work, or we die doing work.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | Nishtha Gautam
It looks like Milan beat everyone to the New Year's resolutions this time. As the clock struck midnight and brought a calendar change, cigarettes became Cinderella—smoking hot but not to be seen in public anymore. Everyone who has ever smoked a cigarette and thought of never doing it again understands the feeling the fashion capital of Italy is heavy with.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | Swapan Dasgupta |Dinesh Narayanan |Mahesh Sachdev |Nishtha Gautam
Opinion | After 2024, Indian Pollsters Must Learn Something About Voters This Year My lessons from 2024: discount (but don't totally disregard) the pollsters, and keep a sharp eye on politics on the ground. Respect the judgment of voters. In most cases, their instincts aren't way off the mark.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Nishtha Gautam
Damascus has fallen. Once again. One of the oldest cities in the world has fallen. To rise again from its rubble, heralding a new order. In its rise and fall, Damascus has lessons for all civilisations, all rebels, and all regimes. It was in July 2012 that rebels penetrated Damascus, hitherto considered inviolable. Both the regime and the rebels understood its importance—military and symbolic. The rebels advanced to the heavily militarised capital of Syria but did not make any real gains.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Nishtha Gautam
Time and again, a harsh but obvious truth asserts itself - men cannot stand women. The latest example is the outgoing Corps Commander (17 Corps) Lt Gen Rajeev Puri's five-page letter to the Army Headquarters flagging his concerns around women Commanding Officers. These concerns ought to be tackled head-on. Let's start with the senior officer's diagnosis of the many symptoms.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Nishtha Gautam
We, the people of Delhi, are in a bad marriage with the city. This marriage is beyond redemption, but both parties dither in calling it quits. Because calling it quits brings not only pain but also an acknowledgement that we made a mistake. So, we carry on with the burden of our past mistakes on our fingers only to dig our claws deeper into each other's skin. On a ‘good' day, such as today, the AQI reading in Delhi is 407.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Nishtha Gautam
“My brother forced my pen to move.”That's what Sandhya Mridul, a Hindi cinema and TV artist, says about the motivation behind her debut book of poetry. Mridul recently lost her brother, and Untamed is her stated way of processing that loss. A public ritualisation of a private emotion. But how does one align individual grief and a sense of loss in a world that is increasingly resembling a catastrophic finale of a fantasy film?
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Nishtha Gautam
It's not misogyny that defeated Kamala Harris. There is a certain insincerity lurking behind this explanation for the decisive victory of the Republican Party, which has led to the installation of Donald Trump, once again, in the White House. It is the same insincerity with which the Harris-Walz campaign was carried out for months. In the face of an ‘unexpected' debacle, the Democrats in the US, along with other politicians across the world, will do well to introspect. What, indeed, was the problem?
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Nishtha Gautam
All of us can be forgiven for mistaking 2024 as the year of the longest-running live TV entertainment. Thankfully, one leg of it is over. As the votes get counted, the world can take a breather while regrouping and replenishing supplies for the second. The race to become the President of the United States has never been so absurd for the onlookers. Who or what, for example, was anyone rooting for?
