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The Opposition in India is passing through a serious crisis of credibility. The issues, arguments, and narratives it has repeatedly raised are...
We are lost for names and adjectives, as an exceptionally strong El Niño evolves in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean usually goes through a cycle...
“The land north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is called Bhārata, where the descendants of Bhārata dwell.” In February 2016,...
As conflict returns to Ethiopia after a fragile peace of four years — a devastating civil war started in 2020 and ended only in 2022 after the...
The most successful member of my St Stephen’s batch, World Bank president Ajay Banga (we all take advantage of the reflected glory!) recently made...
It has been amply clear over the past couple of years that the Russia-Ukraine war, going on since 2022, has become a laboratory for a form of military...
A restored version of the 1972 classic, Pakeezah will be screened at the Festival Lumiere at Lyon, France, which began on October 10 and will conclude...
Two political parties -- the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Janata Dal (U) -- led by two unpredictable leaders Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar swept the...
The New York Times chose to lead with it: the star who played the Everyman but was also “a figure in India’s fleeting #MeToo reckoning”. The BBC...
What should take precedence — the livelihoods of one million employees in insurance distribution or the financial well-being of hundreds of millions...
This year has been the year of anxious middle powers. In January, Canadian Prime Minister (PM) Mark Carneytold the World Economic Forum in Davos that...
On October 10, the national capital — indeed, the National Capital Region — felt quite strange. A total of 245 trains scheduled to reach Delhi...
Driving through the Appalachians, I often wonder how my American neighbours would react to the wondrous might that is the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)....
Some of you may think this column should have been written last week in the immediate wake of Gandhi Jayanti. The truth is that’s precisely why it...
On the night of August 4, a 16-year-old from Mainpuri was allegedly raped inside a moving bus and thenabandoned. An auto-rickshaw driver found her...
I landed in Mumbai early on Friday. The city makes a terrible first impression. As your aircraft is about to land, it feels like it will crash into a...
Ties between India and Germany have been on the upswing over the past several years; in recent months, there has been a push to deepen defence...
The annual stubble-burning season has started. In this widely dreaded practice, farmers set fire to crop residue — the thick remnants left rooted in...
Recently, I booked a cab at night via an app, from Dwarka to Connaught Place. Finding the vehicle quite clean and well-maintained, I complimented the...
External affairs minister S Jaishankar’s statement that India has gone “beyond advocacy” to bring about a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine...
In his book The Mystery of Capital, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto explored why capitalism had flourished in the West but stalled elsewhere. His...
There are moments in public life that mark the beginning of a political journey, and there are moments that, with the passage of time, acquire a...
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement that the negotiations with the US for a trade deal have reached a “plateau” reflects the...
All said and done, India remains one of the most authentic democracies in the world, not to mention the largest. In any democracy, the self-interest...
There is a peculiar burden that a court acquires when it narrows its own precedents. It must then keep returning to clean up the consequences of that...
When I first heard of Smit Machchhar — the pilot of the flydubai flight that would have been deliberately crashed by his co-pilot, Hamam al-Hammami,...
In Jurassic Park, the scientists had mastered genetic engineering well enough to re-create dinosaurs, built elaborate systems to contain them, and...
The debate over India’s latest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers highlighted something important: Numbers as consequential as GDP must command...
The Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2025 reports an unemployment rate of 3.1% among people aged 15 years and above. The rate was 9.9% for those aged...
As far back as 1903, the Fraser Commission recorded that “the police force throughout the country is in a most unsatisfactory condition, that abuses...
The world’s longest written constitution may have taken 165 sittings across nearly three years to draft, but India’s founding document encountered...
For teenagers around the world, including in India, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a part of everyday lives. They are using it to study for...
Om Prakash Rajbhar, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) president, was perhaps not far off the mark when he...
The slogans are new, invoking samosas, kachoris, chai and suttas (cigarettes). The message is as old as the nation: Women protesting against sexual...
The past decade saw an exponential growth in renewable capacity in India. A landmark 300 GW of non-fossil fuel capacity was achieved in August,...
On March 24, 2015, a Germanwings Airbus flight 9525 took off from Barcelona, Spain. It was carrying 144 passengers and six crew members. Thirty...
The global economy is increasingly shaped not only by capital, technology, or natural resources, but above all by people. The countries that educate,...
Thomas Ahrenkiel, head of the Danish Defence Intelligence Service, recently warned about the “low but growing risk” of Russia deploying military...
A friend of mine, Kris Srinivasan, a former foreign secretary who went on to become deputy secretary general of the Commonwealth, once sent me an...
Rahool Goswami has been talking to boys and men about gender, equality and consent for the last 10 years. Patriarchy, he tells them, harms not just...
On October 2, we once again paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. His remarkable legacy lives on, but there is one aspect of his persona I want to focus on:...
Formation and change of governments is a natural process in a democracy, and exercise of power is a given. But when a leader transforms that power...
Last month saw the 154th birth anniversary of Ranjitsinhji, the first Indian to play Test cricket for England. Later this month, the 92nd edition of...
The prevailing view about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s State visit to the US late last month is that it was high on pageantry and low on...
While Delhi is moving towards paid parking in most of its commercial areas, unreserved parking in residential areas continues to be on a predominantly...
When we guess at how well-off someone is, we typically have no idea what they earn. What we do observe is the neighbourhood they live in, the size of...
I have never heard any Pakistani say anything offensive — critical, maybe, but never disparaging — about two Indians: Lata Mangeshkar and Mahatma...
What is it about Gandhi — born 156 years ago in a world altogether different from ours, killed 78 years ago in a newly-independent India — that...
It is a paradox that in spite of my intimate connection with Mahatmaji, he is the one subject on which I feel helpless when I begin to write. A...
The formal theme of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which opened on September 8, is “Restoring trust, Managing...
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