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Indian Politics · 31 Oct 2026 · 7 min read

Replacing Colonial Criminal Codes Was Necessary; Pretending Renaming Alone Delivers Justice Is Not

The government deserves credit for finally replacing inherited criminal statutes, while Congress’s reflexive claim that change itself is sinister is unpersuasive. But implementation—not Sanskritised titles—will decide whether citizens experience faster and fairer justice.

By Meenakshi Iyer

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Digital Public Infrastructure Is the Modi Government’s Quietest—and Hardest to Deny—Reform

Aditya Rao · 31 Oct 2026

The Census Is Too Important for the INDIA Bloc’s Pre-Emptive Conspiracy Factory

Meenakshi Iyer · 30 Oct 2026

GST’s Second Act Matters More Than the Opposition’s First-Draft Obituaries

Aditya Rao · 30 Oct 2026

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India’s Archers Have Outgrown the Country’s Four-Year Attention Span

Farah Sheikh · 31 Oct 2026

India Cannot Call Test Cricket Sacred While Treating the Ranji Trophy as Storage Space

Rohan Deshmukh · 31 Oct 2026

India’s 13-0 Hockey Win Was Fun; Making It Matter Is the Hard Part

Farah Sheikh · 30 Oct 2026

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Panchayat Works Because It Refuses Streaming’s Addiction to Volume

Ishita Banerjee · 31 Oct 2026

Laapataa Ladies Proved Bollywood’s Freshness Problem Is a Casting Problem

Kabir Malhotra · 31 Oct 2026

Akka’s Women Can Rule the Underworld—If the Algorithm Lets Them Be Awful

Ishita Banerjee · 30 Oct 2026

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India Has Won the Smartphone Assembly Race; Now It Must Stop Pretending Assembly Is the Finish Line

Priya Nair · 31 Oct 2026

A Pixel in India Is Still a Great Camera Attached to an Ownership Compromise

Nikhil Bhatt · 31 Oct 2026

Made in India Is Winning the Assembly Line; Now It Must Win the Component Drawer

Priya Nair · 30 Oct 2026

Automobiles

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The Nexon EV’s Real Range Is No Longer the Main Problem; Reliable Charging Is

Ritika Menon · 31 Oct 2026

The Sensible Thar Roxx Is Hiding Beneath Too Many Trims and Too Much Theatre

Arjun Chawla · 31 Oct 2026

India’s EV Revolution Still Ends at the Apartment Parking Meeting

Ritika Menon · 30 Oct 2026

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Jadav Payeng’s Forest Matters Because Restoration Is Usually Less Cinematic Than One Hero

Ananya Ghosh · 31 Oct 2026

India’s Dabbawalas Should Not Have to Become an App to Be Treated as Innovation

Devansh Kapoor · 31 Oct 2026

Chirgaon Saved Vultures by Making Celebration Slightly Less Selfish

Ananya Ghosh · 30 Oct 2026

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