Opinion

By Bhaskar Nath Biswal India stands at a precarious crossroads where its demographic dividend is increasingly threatened by an invisible yet pervasive adversary: a deepening mental health crisis. Recent revelations from the Indian Psychiatric Society, shared ahead of their 77th annual national conference, paint a...

By Beata Javorcik While many people still view runaway population growth as today’s most urgent global challenge, falling fertility rates are the real demographic time bomb. Nearly two-thirds of people now live in countries where fertility is below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per...

By Chandra Bhushan There is a Hindi idiom — chutki lena — that loosely translates as teasing, trolling, mocking or putting someone down. Social media today is full of people taking chutki over air pollution in Delhi. The recent tweet by Chinese Embassy spokesperson, offering...

By Brahma Chellaney Last month, US President Donald Trump banned or severely restricted nationals of 20 additional countries from entering the United States, expanding the entry restrictions he put in place in June, supposedly to mitigate “national security and public safety threats.” But a cursory...

By Mayadhar Sethy Step into two neighbouring homes in rural Odisha and the first thing you notice is reassuring. In both kitchens, rice is cooking. On both plates, there is enough to eat. This quiet but significant achievement reflects years of public investment in food...

By Melvin Durai It has been more than a decade since companies started testing food delivery by drone, and yet I am still waiting for my first drone-delivered bucket of biryani. If you’re wondering why I used the word “bucket,” it’s because a restaurant near...

By Vittorio Quaglione Data-center investments hint at a coming shift in the AI race. Soon, if not already, reliable, affordable electricity will confer the decisive advantage in the sector. As Albert O. Hirschman argued in National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade, an economy’s...

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak   US imperialism and its European allies are promoting a planetary crisis through an unprovoked attack on Venezuela, carried out under the pretext of controlling drug cartels and arresting its democratically elected president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife. The American attack...

By Ajit Ranade A few years ago, outside the Transport Commissioner’s office in Bandra, thousands of Ola and Uber drivers staged a protest. Their demands were modest: better fares, fair commissions, humane working hours, and some protection against arbitrary penalties. The official response was revealing....

India’s food economy in 2026 looks comfortable. Granaries overflowing, vegetable prices slipping, sugar in surplus, and global food markets cooling—even as wars rage in Ukraine and West Asia and climate shocks persist. The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Food Price Index has retreated steadily from...