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The Nepal floods are therefore a reminder that, given that India is downstream of both Nepal and China, it cannot afford to be unprepared for what...
A cursory look at the outcomes of matches in the last 10 years tell a story of a country in rise and its neighbour in sharp decline.
The untold story of meat-shop owner Gopal ‘Patha’ Mukherjee, who saved thousands of lives and stopped Kolkata from becoming part of East Pakistan.
The culture of outrage that social media has lovingly fostered has birthed an entire subculture of rage-baiting
When a hotel room costs more than a small car, hospitality inflation becomes an infrastructure warning
The World Bank paper does not prove that such a cultural shift has already taken place. But it does provide reason to ask whether social norms in...
Viewing Hindu nationalism through selective analytical frameworks is a deliberate attempt to reduce an ancient and spiritual civilizational ethos to a...
If the creamy layer is not spooned off, reservation risks becoming a closed circuit of privilege for those who have already availed reservation.
Since 2014, the Narendra Modi-led government has prioritized “Nari Shakti” through a range of schemes focused on survival, education, health,...
From Nehru’s cosmopolitan table to Modi’s simple vegetarian fare, ‘The Prime Minister’s Table’ explores the food preferences of India’s...
Operation Sindoor demonstrated how dependent modern joint operations have become on persistent surveillance, secure communications and rapid...
An emerging ‘Islamic NATO’ could make Delhi more beholden to Washington, potentially narrowing its bargaining power.
Villagers in Rajasthan confronted a CJP team on Friday and stopped them from continuing with their school inspection
A democracy must be able to distinguish between disagreement and the systematic glorification of destructive politics
This is the return on a decade-long wager on renewable power, delivering on the foundations laid by the Modi government
PM-CARES Fund was designed as a specialised instrument for public emergencies and distress situations, deliberately distinct from the older, more...
Gen Z’s willingness to speak up is a strength. But confidence without perspective can quickly become entitlement.
PM Modi's "Dimagi Naxal" concept describes an ideological ecosystem that delegitimizes the Indian State, obstructs development, and romanticizes...
Lasting change in matters of faith is unlikely to come through coercion. It has to emerge from within the tradition itself.
Pakistan’s diplomatic influence is growing, but whether it can translate that into economic strength without deeper political and institutional...
From software-led innovation to intelligent machines in the real world, India is beginning to build the technological foundations of a new industrial...
The Golden Crescent, an opium-producing region spanning Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, is seeing Balochistan emerge as a key hub for cultivation and...
Punjab is seeing a rise in low-intensity attacks linked to Pakistan-based handlers, with young men lured by quick money into terror networks & left to...
NTA's combination of scale, vigilance, and accountability is the case for confidence in the process, not against it.
UPI's real achievement is not that it made one layer nearly free. It is that it made the location, ownership and legitimacy of the tollbooth...
“Dimagi Naxal” is a crisp, intuitive term which gives great ideological clarity to ordinary Indians. By using it from Red Fort, Modi is calling...
Planned learning should remain open to the questions, interests and experiences children bring into it
As global rivalries sharpen, India is trying to ensure that no single power can dictate its choices by building more capacity and more alternatives.
Indian defence planning has usually been reactive. Buy what the last war exposed as missing, patch the gap, move on.
Modi’s call for India to take 'the next leap' inevitably invites comparison with Mao’s Great Leap Forward, even though the two visions are...
The Bangladesh PM faces pressure from Jamaat, a weakening economy and strained India ties. A reset with New Delhi could offer a crucial political and...
The real measure of victory over an insurgency is not simply how many guns have fallen silent. It is whether people who once had no alternative can...
Gen-Z could do well to re-acquaint itself with the thoughts of the intellectual architects of Indian nationalism
Because affirmative action without proper safeguards and standards even afflicted a top university like Cambridge
Remembrance cannot be reduced to mourning the dead; it must also compel us to decide whose legacies deserve to be preserved in our public memory
Political freedom is only the beginning. For millions of Indian women, true freedom still depends on access, opportunity, safety and the power to make...
Today Bangabandhu is not just a name. He is an inseparable symbol of Bangladesh’s independence
Meta’s admission that money can boost content raises a bigger question: who decides what young Indians see online—and what happens to protests the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken up the responsibility of preserving this pain and history and connecting future generations with it
Religion should not become the next fault line in Tamil Nadu’s politics
The real test for both LDF and UDF is not how convincingly they can invoke secularism or condemn Hindutva, but whether they can apply the same...
India placed standard names for 27 locations and geographical features in Arunachal Pradesh on the official Survey of India map.
The journey continues, but the success story from making chips to ships thus far is already substantial and measurable in hard numbers, in an ode to...
As AI shifts from questions to actions, software is becoming a delegated actor. The next challenge is not intelligence, but proving who authorised it...
A year after the controversy around 'Azul', Guru Randhawa's latest release is again prompting questions about how women are portrayed in his music...
Democracy requires freedom of expression. But democracy also requires knowledge of who is financing influence. That is where FCRA assumes...
Every sovereign state regulates foreign money that flows into its political and social life, and India is entitled to do the same
If there is one party that can be nimble-footed despite its elephantine size in recovering lost ground and getting vulnerable-to-be-misled youngsters...
Gen Z of Bharat does not need more hashtags. It needs the civilisational confidence to look at imported frameworks and say, without hesitation or...
If the CJP genuinely believes India’s political system requires structural change, refusing to become part of that system may ultimately become its...