Opinion

By Melvin Durai Lionel Messi is considered the greatest football player of this era, so it shouldn’t be surprising that his three-day visit to India created more commotion than a visit from the Pope. It was billed as the GOAT Tour and fans in four...

By Emmanuel Macron   It has been ten years since COP21 in Paris, where 195 states made a historic commitment to work together to keep the long-term rise in global temperatures well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature...

By Nikunja Bihari Sahu The national capital on Sunday woke up to a thick layer of smog, with air quality lingering in the 'severe' category.’ The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) recorded the Air Quality Index (AQI) at 462 in the morning. All 40 monitoring...

By Jan-Werner Mueller We have become so accustomed to aspiring auto crats attacking universities that we hardly ever stop to ask why. But pushing back against authoritarians requires understanding their motivations and strategies. University leaders, in particular, ought to be better prepared to coordinate resistance...

By Malay Mishra President Putin came to India to attend the 23rd India-Russia bilateral summit with a heavy Ukraine baggage. He had just finished his marathon meeting with US Special Envoy Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Kushner in Moscow when he came calling to Delhi for...

By DK Giri US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Allison Hooker’s visit to India from 7-11 December, day after Russian President Putin left raised the antenna of observers of India-America bilateralism. The purpose and timing of her visit could be interpreted in two...

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...