Opinion

By Rajdeep Sardesai Reading the inscrutable mind of PM Narendra Modi is always a hazardous exercise. Which is why it remains unclear why the BJP-led government chose this moment to revisit the implementation of the women’s reservation law, passed with much fanfare in 2023. Was...

By Todd G. Buchholz Most schoolchildren learn that the Earth is roughly 25,000 miles around (40,000 kilometres). They do not learn that the global economy depends on just 100 of those miles. Blocking two narrow waterways—the Strait of Hormuz and the Taiwan Strait—can send the...

India designs transformative policy with striking regularity — and then watches it dissolve between the drafting table and the last mile. The causes are structural: fragmented institutions, uneven capacity, broken coordination between political offices and implementing agencies, and incentives that reward announcement over execution. The...

The viral DoorDash driver who delivered two bags of McDonald’s to President Donald Trump in the White House on 13 April is a Republican woman campaigning against a “tax on tips” in the US. Sharon Simmons from Fayetteville, Arkansas, a 58-year old grandmother of 10...

Funds of funds (FoF) are increasingly used to shape how governments practice economic statecraft. When designed well, they pool capital to invest in venture funds rather than directly in individual companies or securities, strengthening innovation ecosystems while steering investment toward strategically important markets, capabilities, and...

Bertrand Badré & Saurabh Mishra For most of the postwar era, global power was defined by alliances, aircraft carriers, and reserve currencies. But we are now entering an era defined by critical infrastructure and those who finance, build, and operate it. Ports, power grids, rail...

Melvin Durai A Hyderabad man who likes to take his family on long drives in his Tata Safari recently complained on Reddit about the “lack of proper washrooms/ toilets” on all his road trips, especially for women. He noted that he regularly stops at a...

By Chander Gupta New Zealand is one country you never hear any controversy about. It is a world of its own. It is an English-speaking country where many Indians have immigrated to. A son of my friend also immigrated to New Zealand after doing a...

The Iran war is hitting many countries beyond they could have imagined. The IMF forecast has subdued global growth. India is no less a sufferer. IMF makes India slip to sixth largest economy as the rupee sinks, oil prices hit inflation high, and a combination...

Only a few years ago, AI seemed like merely a nice toy: a chatbot that simulated intelligence by assembling complete sentences in response to users’ prompts, but that ultimately wasn't much more sophisticated than an advanced search engine. Yet now, it has proven to be...