menu_open Columnists

The Pioneer

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Children need a firewall on social media

Children need a firewall on social media

With minors entering social media unchecked, the time has come to make age verification, parental consent and safety safeguards part of the...

latest 10

The Pioneer

Editors Take

Everything Belongs, Nothing Is Owned

Everything Belongs, Nothing Is Owned

We spend most of our lives accumulating, more wealth, more possessions, more recognition, quietly believing that what we gather becomes truly ours....

latest 10

The Pioneer

Daiv

The wisdom of knowing what we can carry

The wisdom of knowing what we can carry

A civil engineer learns early that every structure has a limit. A bridge carries its own weight, the traffic moving across it and the forces of wind....

latest 10

The Pioneer

Siddharth Roy

Satya Niketan: Accountability, not scapegoating

Satya Niketan: Accountability, not scapegoating

The Satya Niketan building collapse demands accountability, but accountability cannot begin and end with identifying the officer occupying the chair...

latest 10

The Pioneer

Rajani Kant Verma

The questions we should never stop asking

The questions we should never stop asking

All languages are beautiful. There are words in each that draw us towards the beauty hidden within them. For me, some of the most fascinating words...

yesterday 10

The Pioneer

Sanjay Chandra

The Fire That Requires you to Sit Down Patiently

The Fire That Requires you to Sit Down Patiently

In our current life, we feel that acquiring wisdom is instant and much easier through social media by watching a reel or a video or reading a message...

yesterday 0

The Pioneer

Daiv

BRICS at a crossroads

BRICS at a crossroads

From a four-member economic acronym coined in 2001, BRICS has evolved into a powerful Global South platform spanning 11 members and 10 partners. As...

yesterday 10

The Pioneer

Parul Chandra

Remembering 9/11: 25 years, enduring lessons

Remembering 9/11: 25 years, enduring lessons

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the enduring lesson is stark: force can disrupt extremism, but only justice and a more equitable world order can address...

yesterday 10

The Pioneer

Editors Take

BRICS: India to balance Global South and West

BRICS: India to balance Global South and West

The BRICS summit at Delhi offers India a chance to project itself as the Global South’s convenor without becoming an anti-Western camp When Narendra...

previous day 10

The Pioneer

Editors Take

The Self That Watches Itself

The Self That Watches Itself

We live so entangled with our thoughts, our worries, our achievements, and our failures, that we often forget there is a difference between the mind...

previous day 20

The Pioneer

Daiv

From idols to ideals: The green message of Ganpati

From idols to ideals: The green message of Ganpati

For generations, Ganesh Chaturthi has been celebrated with grandeur and devotion all over the world. Families install idols, offer prayers, distribute...

previous day 10

The Pioneer

Rajyogi Brahma Kumar Nikunj Ji

Prime Minister Modi: Must he recalibrate?

Prime Minister Modi: Must he recalibrate?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the BJP’s central electoral asset, but signs of voter unease over the economy, jobs and governance are...

previous day 20

The Pioneer

Kalyani Shankar

When negligence turns into a death trap

When negligence turns into a death trap

A five-storey hostel in Delhi collapsed after years of regulatory neglect and dangerous construction. Once again, it took a collapse for authorities...

wednesday 20

The Pioneer

Editors Take

God has his door open for all of us

God has his door open for all of us

Sanjaya of the Mahabharata fame summarised at the end of the Bhagavad-Gita, “Where there is the Yogeshwara Shri Krishna and where there is the...

wednesday 20

The Pioneer

Ajit Kumar Bishnoi

Delhi: A bipartisan record of neglect

Delhi: A bipartisan record of neglect

In Delhi, illegal construction, ignored safety norms and regulatory complicity have become a deadly cycle. From Uphaar and Lalita Park to Mundka, Old...

wednesday 20

The Pioneer

Kushan Mitra

The Limits of Self-Reliance

The Limits of Self-Reliance

We live in a time that celebrates self-sufficiency, teaching us to solve every problem through our own effort, strategy, and willpower, often treating...

wednesday 30

The Pioneer

Daiv

The Student Who Became the Wall of Water

The Student Who Became the Wall of Water

In the ashram of Sage Dhaumya lived a devoted student named Aruni. One stormy evening, the sage noticed a breach in the mud wall holding back water...

08.09.2026 10

The Pioneer

Daiv

Sifting the wheat from the chaff

Sifting the wheat from the chaff

The debate over Jauhar in Padmaavat has exposed an uncomfortable tendency in contemporary discourse: judging the past entirely through the moral...

08.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Bhopinder Singh

ISRO must evolve, not retreat

ISRO must evolve, not retreat

As private companies take a larger role in rocket manufacturing, concerns are growing that it could weaken the very institution that built India’s...

08.09.2026 10

The Pioneer

Editors Take

India’s new music stars go independent

India’s new music stars go independent

For decades, the route to becoming a music star in India usually ran through cinema. Singers became famous through playback, songs travelled on the...

08.09.2026 10

The Pioneer

Namrata Kohli

The Bones That Saved the World

The Bones That Saved the World

The Devas were losing their long war against the Demon Vritra, who could not be killed by any ordinary weapon. Only one thing could defeat him - a...

07.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Daiv

The Unlikely Journey of a Birth

The Unlikely Journey of a Birth

Krishna - Teacher, Guide and the one most revered as God in our tradition did not arrive into the world the way we might expect greatness to begin....

07.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Daiv

ChummaIru: The art of simply being

ChummaIru: The art of simply being

People travelled from across the world to Arunachala, carrying questions that had troubled them for years - about the self, about suffering, about the...

07.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Daiv

Ancient Wisdom. Timeless Guidance.

Ancient Wisdom. Timeless Guidance.

This Week's Zodiac Insights   Profession  •  Money  •  Family  •  Relationships  •  Health  •  Travel This week feels...

07.09.2026 7

The Pioneer

Daiv Astro

Empty mind to receive the new

Empty mind to receive the new

We take pride in what we know. Years of experience, qualifications, hard earned opinions about us built over a lifetime - we carry them like trophies...

07.09.2026 9

The Pioneer

Daiv

Belgium hedges against an unpredictable US

Belgium hedges against an unpredictable US

From defence co-production to the India-EU free trade agreement, Brussels and New Delhi are finding common ground for a rules-based economic order...

07.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Editors Take

When organisations lose the human touch

When organisations lose the human touch

I became a member of Club Mahindra in 2010. Whenever I needed something beyond my normal entitlement-an additional room, for instance-I would write to...

07.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Sanjay Chandra

Teachers: The artists of education

Teachers: The artists of education

In an age when machines are becoming capable of almost everything predictable, the irreplaceable act remains the human one: a teacher who sees...

07.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Jayant Chaudhary

The ghosts that are really memory

The ghosts that are really memory

"Ghosts are all around us. Seek them out and you shall discover them," Ruskin Bond once said — an apt threshold into a disarmingly...

06.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Lakshmi Puri

Bhagwat: Hindu cannot be exclusivist

Bhagwat: Hindu cannot be exclusivist

"The basis of this true belief, that my pain and pleasure lay in the pain and pleasure of the other is the reason for yearning for unity and its...

06.09.2026 30

The Pioneer

Ratan Sharda

India must fix its own classrooms

India must fix its own classrooms

Can India truly aspire to become a Vishwa Guru when it continues to grapple with teacher shortages, overcrowding and inadequate learning outcomes?...

05.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Editors Take

Living with time: The impermanence of infrastructure

Living with time: The impermanence of infrastructure

A crack in a concrete wall is called a defect. An engineer sees something deeper: a message from time. It tells us that materials age and even strong...

05.09.2026 30

The Pioneer

Siddharth Roy

Teachers as architects of a Viksit Bharat

Teachers as architects of a Viksit Bharat

From the Guru-Shishya Parampara to the aspirations of the National Education Policy 2020, the enduring influence of teachers remains central to...

05.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Abhishek Anand

Overshoot: The climate warning

Overshoot: The climate warning

The United Nations’ stark warning comes as climate disasters linked to the melting Himalayas are causing an immediate human and regional security...

04.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Editors Take

This Teacher’s Day, give teachers their time back

This Teacher’s Day, give teachers their time back

Every few months, schools seem to discover something new that instructors must do: a fresh report, another portal, photographs from an activity,...

04.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Sakshi Sethi

India’s steel sector and decarbonisation

India’s steel sector and decarbonisation

India’s new greenhouse gas emission intensity targets for the iron and steel sector mark a significant step towards industrial decarbonisation. The...

04.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Gopal K Sarangi Suhani Yadav Shubhi Goel

SCO Summit: A win for India in Bishkek

SCO Summit: A win for India in Bishkek

Bishkek has offered a moment of diplomatic convergence - and a reminder that declarations are easier to sign than geopolitical differences are to...

03.09.2026 30

The Pioneer

Editors Take

What kind of world does our news create?

What kind of world does our news create?

Peaceful world has been the main aim of humanity since time immemorial and one can say this without any doubt whatsoever that media being not only the...

03.09.2026 30

The Pioneer

Rajyogi Brahma Kumar Nikunj Ji

Laldenga: From insurgency to peace

Laldenga: From insurgency to peace

In From Guerrilla Fighter to Chief Minister, Zoramthanga Chhangte traces the turbulent journey from the 1966 uprising through years of exile and...

03.09.2026 30

The Pioneer

Ashok K Mehta

The Russia embrace, recalibrated

The Russia embrace, recalibrated

As the two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to a relationship tested by war and sanctions, India made clear that its ties with Moscow remain...

02.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Editors Take

Action is ours, results belong to God

Action is ours, results belong to God

Yes, I am referring to the famous verse 2.47 of the Bhagavad-Gita. There are four instructions in this verse. The first instruction is: “You have a...

02.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Ajit Kumar Bishnoi

The American dream, under a visa siege

The American dream, under a visa siege

Despite the tightening of visa rules — and even as courts push back against some of the administration’s measures — the pull of the American...

02.09.2026 10

The Pioneer

Kalyani Shankar

India’s quest for energy Atmanirbharta

India’s quest for energy Atmanirbharta

India’s dependence on imported hydrocarbons has long been its greatest energy vulnerability, a risk sharply exposed by recent disruptions to global...

01.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Abhishek Pratap Singh Kaustubh Tripathi

Why India’s Uzbekistan upgrade matters

Why India’s Uzbekistan upgrade matters

The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership takes bilateral ties beyond diplomacy, encompassing energy, defence, trade and regional connectivity Prime...

01.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Editors Take

Janmashtami: When Krishna is born within

Janmashtami: When Krishna is born within

Every year, millions celebrate Janmashtami with devotion, fasting, prayers, music and joyous festivities. Temples are beautifully decorated, homes...

01.09.2026 20

The Pioneer

Radhanath Swami Maharaj

H-1B shock: India must look beyond America

Washington may keep changing the rules; India must make sure its economic prospects are not held hostage to them The US Department of Homeland...

31.08.2026 20

The Pioneer

Editors Take

The horse that walks to the water

There is an old proverb that says, "You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make it drink." Over the years, I have often wondered...

31.08.2026 60

The Pioneer

Lucky Kulkarni

Cash in hand, capacity in retreat?

As states commit ever larger sums to recurring transfers, a more difficult question is emerging: what happens to the long-term investments that build...

31.08.2026 20

The Pioneer

Debdulal Thakur

India: Aiming to be a multi-trillion economy

This book has been sponsored by Bharat Global Industries Forum (BGIF), a premier national think-and-action platform uniting India’s top...

30.08.2026 20

The Pioneer

Anil Bhat

Soft power: India’s opportunity to shape the global imagination

India should be able to speak to the world through yoga and aI, Ayurveda and animation, classical music and gaming, and cutting-edge digital...

30.08.2026 30

The Pioneer

Chaitanya K Prasad