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It is a peculiar irony of modern capitalism that the bigger a technology company becomes, the more time it spends defending itself before competition...
As the fifth anniversary of the purchase of Air India by the Tatas — they bought the airline from the government in October 2021 — approaches, the...
Russia has taken heavy losses over the last couple of months in its war with Ukraine. Russian advances in Donetsk and Luhansk have largely stalled...
There is a peculiar ritual in India whenever citizens protest. Before we scrutinise State action, the protester must first prove the legitimacy of his...
On July 21, OpenAI admitted that its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) models had broken out of a testing environment, reached the open internet and...
India has reached a rare national consensus: Education must change. The outrage over examination leaks and widespread corruption creates an...
Public faith in India’s institutions is at an all-time low at the moment; it is perhaps especially so with the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board...
If you felt that your salary has been stagnating over the past few years, there is now data from the income tax filings that turns the feeling into a...
Amid global turbulence, the year 2026 may go down as a banner year for India-EU relations. Decades of frustration and finger-pointing have suddenly...
Earlier this month, Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Sanae Takaichi paid her first official visit to India, after assuming office last October. The...
A resignation, especially one aspiring to a higher morality, is meant to be a sombre affair. Which is why it isn’t clear what the BJP lawmakers...
Lived reality always finds a way to catch up with political rhetoric. In February 2021, Myanmar’s youth protested a military coup that eventually...
Students vociferously demanded accountability for repeated examination paper leaks, and rightly so. However, entrance examinations are merely the...
Two infections had comparable global death tolls in 2024: Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1.23 million, and Hepatitis B 1.1 million, while HIV-related...
Head: Cockroaches, Cinderellas, and a cloistered Cabinet Strap: The student protests were the reckoning for eight decades spent treating education as...
Reports about the pilferage of donations to Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, about money being stashed away by the very people who were appointed for counting...
The Global Findex Database is a demand-side survey on financial inclusion run by the World Bank every three years to track how adults around the world...
Anoosheh says she knows exactly why she spent 15 to 16 hours a day at the Jantar Mantar protest. The class 12 student moved from Uttar Pradesh to the...
The “cockroaches” have left Jantar Mantar after the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, the education minister. Their successful movement brought...
Anyone who watched Argentina’s football World Cup matches (before the final with Spain) will understand India’s monsoon this year. For long...
‘It is not over till it’s over,’ goes a popular aphorism. In Pakistan, this applies not just to the insurgency in Balochistan — intermittent...
Imagine you are a kid who comes from nothing. You grew up being told that hard work is greater than even going to a place like Harvard. You worked...
Conservation is not just ecological but also social, and there can be no capacity-building in this field without gender empowerment. Across India,...
George Bernard Shaw was spot on when he declared that the US and England are two countries separated by a common language. But so too was Henry...
Dharmendra Pradhan should have resigned as Union education minister earlier. Perhaps — who knows? — he wanted to and was prepared to but was not...
Two decades ago, on a hot Sunday afternoon, I was writing what felt like the most important exam of my life. It was a day I had been preparing for...
For the first time since records began, no woman aged 20–24 died from cervical cancer in England over a five-year period. The reason was a vaccine...
On October 15, 1857, a havildar and a sepoy were marched onto the Esplanade in Bombay. Each was tied to the mouth of a cannon. The verdict — that...
When Vikram-1 lifted off from Sriharikota on July 18, it marked more than a technological triumph. Developed by an Indian startup, Skyroot Aerospace,...
Every endocrinologist has encountered this conversation. “Doctor, I’ve put on 12 kilos because of my thyroid.” Or this one: “My thyroid tests...
I write today as a parent to two Generation Z (Gen Z) individuals, as a witness to the current protests, somewhat cognizant of the challenges facing...
For the first time since records began, no woman aged 20–24 died from cervical cancer in England over a five-year period. The reason was a vaccine...
In 2025, India’s smartphone exports crossed a threshold that should change how India thinks about industrial policy. With exports of about ₹2.6...
One of the longest-standing debates in Indian constitutional law and politics has been around whether and to what extent the State should control the...
Before India called itself secular, it had already learnt how to keep the sacred and the political apart. For nearly 25 years after Independence, the...
The outlook on prices has yo-yoed in recent months — first rising, then falling and then rising again. Crude oil prices were easing before the...
India’s greatest climate challenge today is not merely excessive or insufficient rainfall in certain parts of the region. Rather, it is the...
Every popular protest reaches a juncture when governments can no longer ignore it. The agitation led by the Cockroach Janata Party crossed that...
Companies across the world are turning to Chinese open-weight models that now deliver near-frontier capability at a fraction of the cost, trailing the...
As India advances toward Viksit Bharat 2047, the choices it makes about its natural ecosystems will be as consequential as the infrastructure it...
A woman gets bail because the police, arresting her for her husband’s murder, never told her why she was being arrested. A former chief minister...
Delhi saw one of its largest ever student protests on Monday. The obvious comparisons are to the December 2012 protest, which erupted after the brutal...
Centrism is not indecision, but a conscious rejection of the emotional trauma, institutional decay and social fragmentation that result from...
India’s ethanol blending programme (EBP) has become one of the country’s more visible energy security interventions. Launched in 2014 to cut crude...
Earlier this year, three men on a motorcycle opened fire on a group of agricultural migrants in the Moga district of Punjab, injuring two. Nirvair...
In a remarkable and welcome turn of events, the central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it is ready to introduce comprehensive...
Power in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) is being built in chip factories, research labs, data centres and export control lists. The question...
US President Donald Trump never tires of calling India the “tariff king”, a country that taxes US goods heavily, sells far more to the US than it...
Do the names Govind Ram and Rajan ring a bell? No? I will introduce you to both, but a little later in this column. Let’s first talk about the...
We’ve reached a point where questions about the Gulf War seem more significant than the answers we have. It’s even arguable that neither side...
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