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Seen together, 2025’s most-read editorials uncover the interests and concerns that mattered astir to readers implicit the past year.
The editorials connected the Pahalgam attack, the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar, Operation Sindoor among others were the apical 10 editorials from The Hindu in 2025.
10. On the Pahalgam panic attack
The editorial connected the Pahalgam panic onslaught is the 10th astir work editorial from The Hindu successful 2025. “The massacre of 26 people, astir of them tourists, in Pahalgam, Kashmir, by Islamist terrorists has jolted the conscience of the federation and the world. It is simply a tragic reminder of the changeless menace of terrorism, which strikes without informing astatine guiltless civilians. The mind-numbing reports of the attackers identifying victims by religion earlier executing them astatine adjacent scope people a caller debased successful the past of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism,” said the editorial and concluded that “India’s strategy indispensable beryllium guided by realism grounded successful nationalist involvement and devoid of bare rhetoric arsenic it seeks to isolate Pakistan, whose export of coercion is predicated connected the two-nation mentation and Hindu-Muslim hostility.”
9. On the Guillain-Barré Syndrome outbreak successful Pune
This editorial onthe Guillain-Barré Syndrome outbreak successful Pune, where over 100 cases of suspected GBS were recorded successful January, called connected the section and State medication “to supply cleanable drinking h2o to each residents and guarantee that capable societal messaging is provided periodically connected avoiding contaminated, unhygienic food”.
8. On ‘Operation Sindoor’ and after
The editorial, ’Strokes of justice’, on Operation Sindoor talks astir however India’s effect to the Pahalgam panic attack has beensharper and much resolute this time.
7. On the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar
This editorial titled ‘Agony of exit’on the resignation of Jadgeep Dhankhar arsenic Vice-President.“The abrupt decision by Jagdeep Dhankhar to resign arsenic the Vice-President of India raises respective questions astir the narration betwixt the enforcement and Parliament. Mr. Dhankhar is the archetypal Vice-President successful the past of the Republic to resign this mode — immoderate of his predecessors who resigned earlier completing their word had the crushed of moving connected to get elected arsenic the President of India,” the editorial said.
6. On the 18th variation of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
In the aftermath of the 18th variation of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the Indian diaspora arsenic India’s “ambassadors to the world”. Titled ‘Indians abroad’ this editorial throws airy onthe India-origin community, the PBD’s intent and the event’s humanities significance.
5. On the G-7 acme successful Canada
“At 50, the G-7 — a grouping of the astir precocious economies — should look robust, cohesive and experienced successful managing planetary conflict. Instead, the G-7 Summit and Outreach league successful Kananaskis, Canada presented a disunited and ineffective unit successful the look of immoderate of the astir testing conflicts including an escalating Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Iran strife and Israel’s ceaseless bombardment of Gaza,” the editorial ‘Failed summit’, connected the G-7 Summit said.
4. On India’s diplomatic actions against Pakistan
This editorial, ‘A gathering storm’, talks astir the the diplomatic actions against Pakistan taken connected by India’s Cabinet Committee connected Security successful absorption to the Pahalgam panic attack. “They are a measured acceptable of responses that bespeak a larger escalation could follow,” it said.
3. On Pahalgam panic onslaught and the UNSC statement
This editorial titled ‘Not beardown enough’, onthe Pahalgam attack, and the ensuing U.N. Security Council statement, which condemned the violent act, said that the connection connected April 25, 2025 “was necessary, but inadequate. The connection besides spoke of the request to bring the perpetrators and their sponsors to justice”.
2. On behaviour connected societal media
The Supreme Court connected August 25, 2025 said societal media influencers commercialise escaped code and their comments person a capableness to wounded sentiments successful a divers society, which see the disabled, women, children, elder citizens and the minorities. In this regard, the editorial, ‘Imagined righteousness’,said, “In urging the Union government to enactment connected guidelines to modulate code connected societal media, the Supreme Court of India is seeking to empower an enforcement that is already weaponising the ineligible limits connected state of expression.”
1. On China’s HMPV cases
This the apical work editorial of the year. On the crisp emergence successful acute respiratory diseases, including the quality metapneumovirus (HMPV) successful children and the aged successful China, this editorial, ‘Nothing alarming’,pressed connected theurgent request “for a regulatory model that facilitates a accelerated support of diagnostic tests successful the discourse of section and planetary outbreaks of caller and little known pathogens”.
