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Utpal Kumar is Opinion Editor, News18 and Firstpost. He can be reached at utpal.kumar@nw18.com. He tweets @utpal_kumar1

- Opinion
- December 14, 2023, 2:48 PM IST
Opinion | Bangladesh, Arab Spring and America’s Dangerous Obsession with Regime Change
Joe Biden’s Arab Spring desire in poll-bound Bangladesh won’t be any better than Barack Obama’s Middle Eastern nightmare
- Opinion
- December 11, 2023, 11:04 AM IST
Opinion | Being Hindu in Bangladesh: No Light at the End of the Tunnel
On an average, as of 2016, 632 people from the minority community leave Bangladesh each day. Deep Halder and Avishek Biswas’ book explores what it means ‘being Hindu in Bangladesh’
- Opinion
- December 7, 2023, 5:29 PM IST
Opinion | Nehru and Kashmir: Big Blunders, Contested Legacies
There was no way Nehru could have stopped the UN interference in Kashmir or pushed the Pakistan Army out of POK. But this precarious situation was largely the result of his own egoistic personality and obnoxiously ideological and flippantly moralistic worldview
- Opinion
- December 6, 2023, 10:39 AM IST
Opinion | Congress Invoking North-South Divide is Old Aryan-Dravidian Wine in New Bottle, Will Only Script its Demise
As the Congress leaders and acolytes lash out at the voters of the North to be ‘communal’, ‘illiterate’ and ‘backward’, it’s time the party realised that the ‘northerly wind’ is slowly moving to the South as well
- Opinion
- November 21, 2023, 10:39 AM IST
Opinion | Osama, the Latest Left-‘Liberal’ Hero, and the Flawed Notion of Islamic Land
The fight is not against Israeli ‘atrocities’ or ‘highhandedness’ but against the very existence of Israel. The real battle is against the humanistic, democratic world order by those pursuing authoritarian ethics of both Godless and God-fearing ideologies
- Opinion
- November 12, 2023, 5:25 PM IST
Book Review | How 2024 is the Year of Reckoning for India, Indians and Indian Politics
A review of Minhaz Merchant’s new book, ‘Modi: The Challenge of 2024’
- Opinion
- November 5, 2023, 3:27 PM IST
Opinion | From Ukraine to Gaza: Are We on the Brink of World War III?
Hamas’ act of terrorism in Israel has pushed the polarising Ukraine discourse forward. The world today is far more divided between the American and Chinese camps than it was before Ukraine
- Opinion
- October 30, 2023, 6:15 PM IST
Opinion | Hamas Isn’t Palestine: Why Inviting a Hamas Leader to Address Pro-Palestine Rally in Kerala is Problematic
The Palestinian demand for a separate state is as legitimate as the need for Israel to seek the dismantling of Hamas’ jihadi infrastructure
- Opinion
- October 23, 2023, 6:18 PM IST
Opinion | ‘Crybaby’ Canada Silly to Invoke Vienna Convention, But US Comes Out Sillier Exhibiting Colonial Mindset
Instead of making Canada realise that it cannot run with democratic India and hunt with Khalistani terrorists, the US and the UK have behaved like the white bullies of the yore who would come out to the rescue of ‘one of their own’
- Opinion
- October 12, 2023, 1:49 PM IST
Opinion | Why It’s Reprehensible to Compare Israel’s Retaliatory War with Hamas’ Nihilistic Violence
Israel’s feared security services were lulled into a false sense of security as Hamas launched a ‘never-ending’ war
- Opinion
- September 27, 2023, 2:52 PM IST
Opinion | Why Trudeau’s Hitjob Against India May Have Western Deep State Connection
Justin Trudeau resurrecting an India ghost in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a known Khalistani terrorist, has all the ingredients of Western deep state links
- Opinion
- September 25, 2023, 6:09 PM IST
Opinion | India’s Terrorists Can’t Be West’s ‘Father Figures’: Learn From Canada’s Role In Kanishka Bombing
The era of clubbing terrorists with freedom fighters is mostly gone — and rightly so. Only a few pariah states, such as Pakistan, still pursue such obsolete, dangerous ideas. Canada, more so under Trudeau, seems to be going the Pakistan way
- Opinion
- September 22, 2023, 4:24 PM IST
Opinion | ‘Canadian Taxpayers Paying to Kill Indians’: Trudeau Exposes Canada’s Terror Underbelly
In the past 40 years, both Conservatives and Liberals have pandered to Khalistani extremists operating on Canadian soil. Justin Trudeau, in that way, has merely pushed the envelope to ‘mainstreamise’ these extremists on a scale not seen before
- Opinion
- September 4, 2023, 6:16 PM IST
Opinion | Why Udhayanidhi’s Statement Smacks of Stalinist Terror and is Both Dangerous and Ahistorical
This latest episode has drawn the curtains on the ‘Hinduism is good-Hindutva is bad’ narrative. Hinduism has now officially become a bad word in Indian politics
- Opinion
- August 29, 2023, 4:10 PM IST
Opinion | India Should Be Prepared for More Hindenburgs and Similar Soros-ian Assaults
The attack will continue till there is an innate anti-India ecosystem in the West and dirty Chinese money flushing George Soros’ coffers. The battle lines have just been drawn

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Opinion | Bangladesh, Arab Spring and America’s Dangerous Obsession with Regime Change

Opinion | Being Hindu in Bangladesh: No Light at the End of the Tunnel

Opinion | Nehru and Kashmir: Big Blunders, Contested Legacies

Opinion | Congress Invoking North-South Divide is Old Aryan-Dravidian Wine in New Bottle, Will Only Script its Demise

Opinion | Osama, the Latest Left-‘Liberal’ Hero, and the Flawed Notion of Islamic Land

Book Review | How 2024 is the Year of Reckoning for India, Indians and Indian Politics

Opinion | From Ukraine to Gaza: Are We on the Brink of World War III?

Opinion | Hamas Isn’t Palestine: Why Inviting a Hamas Leader to Address Pro-Palestine Rally in Kerala is Problematic

Opinion | ‘Crybaby’ Canada Silly to Invoke Vienna Convention, But US Comes Out Sillier Exhibiting Colonial Mindset

Opinion | Why It’s Reprehensible to Compare Israel’s Retaliatory War with Hamas’ Nihilistic Violence

Opinion | Why Trudeau’s Hitjob Against India May Have Western Deep State Connection

Opinion | India’s Terrorists Can’t Be West’s ‘Father Figures’: Learn From Canada’s Role In Kanishka Bombing

Opinion | ‘Canadian Taxpayers Paying to Kill Indians’: Trudeau Exposes Canada’s Terror Underbelly

Opinion | Why Udhayanidhi’s Statement Smacks of Stalinist Terror and is Both Dangerous and Ahistorical

Opinion | India Should Be Prepared for More Hindenburgs and Similar Soros-ian Assaults

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