Opinion

By Nalinikanta Dhar The Indian rupee slipped to a historic low against the US dollar on December 4, 2025, breaching the psychologically significant level of `90 per dollar. The speed of this depreciation has sparked intense concern and debate among policymakers, businesses, and investors. While...

By Bruhaspati Samal I n the political economy of contemporary India, few reforms have invited such sharp polarisation as the four Labour Codes notified for nationwide implementation through the Gazette Notification dated 21 November 2025. Even before the ink on the notification dried, the streets...

By Stephen Holmes   The new US National Security Strategy is not, in any meaningful sense, a strategy. A strategy connects means to achievable ends. What President Donald Trump’s White House published last week is something else: a 33-page confession that this administration does not...

By Bhaskar Nath Biswal   India’s journey towards gender parity in education has reached a significant milestone, one that is both cause for celebration and a stark reminder of the long road ahead. The surging enrolment of women in higher education institutions has crossed the...

By Ajay Patnaik The visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin was strategically significant for both countries. Right since the war in Ukraine started, Moscow has been facing Western pressures through sanctions and campaigns to isolate Russia. New Delhi has also been under pressure to condemn...

By Michael Burleigh   Until a few days ago, it had never crossed my mind that people across Europe – including Londoners like me – were living in a strife-afflicted hell hole, “suffocated” by regulations, stripped of political liberties, and bound for “civilizational era sure.”...

By Melvin Durai During a recent Cabinet meeting, US President Donald Trump went on a rant, labelling Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and other immigrants from Somalia as “garbage.” “We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee A 10-year assessment of air pollution across major urban centres has found that none of the country’s top cities met safe AQI levels at any point between 2015 and November 2025. The report, prepared by Climate Trends, analysed long-term pollution patterns across...

By Johanna Sydow & Nsama Chikwanka   The environmental and human toll of mineral extraction is becoming clearer – and more alarming – by the day. Roughly 60% of Ghana’s waterways are now heavily polluted due to gold mining along riverbanks. In Peru, many communities...

By Ajit Ranade   When IndiGo cancelled thousands of flights this December— stranding lakhs of passengers, destroying travel plans, and exposing India’s vulnerability to a quasi-monopoly airline—it was tempting to blame it all on one company’s “rogue behaviour.” But scratching the surface reveals a deeper...