Best of BS Opinion: Living in 'interesting times', Af without Pak & Islam

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T N Ninan in his weekly column, Weekend Ruminations, notes if we are living through the “interesting times” of the Chinese curse, with multiple and overlapping crises slowly coming to a head, in a manner that is beyond the capacity of existing systems and institutions to meaningfully tackle? Read here

India doesn’t have to see the Taliban as a hostile political force just because it is Islamic or Pakistan’s friend. Modi govt can befriend it if BJP resets its domestic politics of polarization, writes Shekhar Gupta

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