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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 26

Opinion | #Mangrove forests, once considered to be marshy land, now occupy a central position in the coastal ecosystem and climate mitigation moves, writes Selvam Vaithilingam trib.al/pkzwsAw

TheHinduComment's tweet card. Today, the word “mangroves” has become a buzzword, whether in the area of disaster risk reduction in coastal areas, climate adaptation or the conservation of shoreline bird sanctuaries

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 26

Opinion | If #Kargil was a watershed moment in India’s conventional fighting capability, #Pahalgam has set the bar against any terror attack in the future ✍️Rajeev Agarwal trib.al/vkMe5rR

TheHinduComment's tweet card. From Kargil to Pahalgam, India has had to learn many hard lessons leading it to steadily re-strategise its security policies

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 25

#Opinion | V.S. Achuthanandan, the man of the masses ✍🏽 @Anandans76 trib.al/f2uGA7S

TheHinduComment's tweet card. V.S. Achuthanandan: Had it not been for him, many cases and issues deserving public attention and debate would have easily gone under the carpet

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 25

#Opinion | The Bihar poll rolls revision only strengthens the point that the Election Commission of India must back alternative models of enrolment ✍🏽Shubhrastha S trib.al/Bm9OFms

TheHinduComment's tweet card. The Election Commission of India's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar fails to interrogate the structural incongruities of India’s electoral architecture

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 25

#Opinion | The entry of cheaper junk food as a result of a free trade agreement can prove to be expensive in terms of public health ✍🏽Dr Chandrakant Lahariya and Arun Gupta trib.al/jziOtdg

TheHinduComment's tweet card. Even though the India-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement is good news from the economic perspectives of both countries, the FTA could pose a public health challenge for India

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 23

Opinion | Once hailed as the future of labour, ‘Work from Home’ has become far more complicated than imagined ✍️ P. John J. Kennedy trib.al/fbKFk0r

TheHinduComment's tweet card. The global experiment in working from home is a mirror, reflecting the unresolved tensions between freedom and control, trust and suspicion, autonomy and loneliness

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 23

Opinion | The Himalayas are the real frontier for another conflict between the Asian giants— shaping the loyalties of border populations ✍️Nirupama Rao trib.al/8Uj0H6S

TheHinduComment's tweet image. Opinion | The Himalayas are the real frontier for another conflict between the Asian giants— shaping the loyalties of border populations

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 23

Opinion | Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will have to balance industrial development with labour rights ✍️Hareesh P trib.al/5zetxHc

TheHinduComment's tweet card. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will have to balance industrial development with labour rights

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 23

Opinion | Across the world, universities, once imagined as havens of free inquiry, are now being transformed into sites of political control ✍️ Amrita Nambiar,Amrithnath Sreedevi Babu trib.al/6DaejFh

TheHinduComment's tweet card. Across the world, universities, once imagined as havens of free inquiry, are now being transformed into sites of political control

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 22

Opinion | The United Kingdom-India Free Trade Agreement could be a catalyst for deeper engagement in this rapidly evolving ecosystem ✍️ Kishore Jayaraman trib.al/6cFtm7R

TheHinduComment's tweet card. From the U.K.’s perspective, a Free Trade Agreement with India will secure access to one of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · 23 h

Editorial | Fragile peace demands political actors pursue genuine reconciliation trib.al/6jsXPz1

$TheHinduComment's tweet card. The future of a peaceful Manipur will linked to committed political actors who are willing to transcend ethnic divisions and work toward the genuine healing of the fractured society in the State$

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · 23 h

The Hindu data team found that for every child free for adoption in India, 13 parents wait in line. Should India relax its adoption procedure? Aloma Lobo and Smriti Gupta discuss, moderated by Priscilla Jebaraj trib.al/IxsKJAf

TheHinduComment's tweet card. Should India relax its adoption procedure?

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · 23 h

Editorial | India-U.K. trade deal may set the template for the EU and U.S. deals trib.al/eErsdDu

TheHinduComment's tweet card. The India-United Kingdom Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is a good example of the give and take between two large economies of comparable size

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 25

Should India relax its adoption procedure? Aloma Lobo and Smriti Gupta discuss the question in a conversation moderated by @prisjebaraj trib.al/EXTSli4

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 25

#Editorial | A slow revival: On the state of India-China ties trib.al/BgzPRVk

TheHinduComment's tweet card. India’s decision to restart issuing tourist visas for Chinese nationals is a strong signal that the restoration of ties is progressing

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 25

#Editorial | Clean house: On India’s septic tank desludging trib.al/m1eWImw

TheHinduComment's tweet card. In India, most underground infrastructure can be cleaned robotically if capital subsidies and operator training expand, yet government tenders often solicit manual bids

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 23

Editorial | #JagdeepDhankar’s resignation as Vice-President is a setback for parliamentary democracy trib.al/rFeTDRr

TheHinduComment's tweet card. The abrupt decision by Jagdeep Dhankhar to resign as the Vice-President of India raises several questions about the relationship between the executive and Parliament

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 23

Editorial | The AIADMK and the BJP are taking conflicting positions on power-sharing trib.al/jvDfv1r

TheHinduComment's tweet card. The AIADMK and the BJP are yet to find common ground on the nature of government that would be formed in Tamil Nadu were the National Democratic Alliance to win the Assembly elections in 2026

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 22

Society’s capacity for critical self-reflection and growth is impaired; stagnation and intellectual rigidity will follow ✍️ Shelley Walia trib.al/9kSGQq7

TheHinduComment's tweet card. The sanctity of intellectual freedom is being steadily eroded across institutions, particularly universities and academic spaces, due to pressures of conformity and control

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The Hindu Comment@TheHinduComment · Jul 22

Editorial | The full and raw cockpit voice recorder transcript must be released trib.al/cfx3SPr

TheHinduComment's tweet card. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau must clear the fog around the Air India AI171 accident at Ahmedabad

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