Opinion

By Bhaskar Nath Biswal The passage of the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, through Parliament marks a decisive attempt to confront a crisis that strikes at the core of India’s social fabric. The recent nationwide outrage following the NEET-UG 2026 paper...

Bhabani Shankar Nayak Various forms of crises, risks, and insecurities are intensifying, even as governing elites drum up patriotism, nationalism, and ethnic and religious unity to hide the failures of the ruling classes and their capitalist system with all its powers. Labour is more productive...

Kailash Satyarthi The defining question of our time is no longer whether AI will transform our world. It already has. What the world needs now is a moral compass for the technology, which is why I introduced the concept of Compassionate AI to the 12,000-plus...

By Satish Kumar Dear Prime Minister Andy Burnham: As the new Prime Minister of Great Britain, I write to suggest that you appoint a Minister of Peace! The British government should lead the world towards peace so that other nations can follow the example. Imagine,...

By Kaushik Basu During the seven years I served as chief economic adviser to the government of India and as chief economist at the World Bank, I came to appreciate what a strange discipline economics is. Parts of it amount to little more than organised...

By Daron Acemoglu Designer babies who are genetically engineered for desirable health, physical, and intellectual features are now within reach using existing technologies, a prospect that raises far-reaching societal and ethical questions not unlike those associated with advances in AI. One difference, though, is that...

Ask someone today whom they turn to when feeling anxious or struggling to sleep, and increasingly the answer is a chatbot, not a friend or a doctor. In a survey of 19,000 adults across 18 countries that AXA conducted with Ipsos earlier this year, 61%...

In 2023, US President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence agencies to share evidence of Russian war crimes with the International Criminal Court, with the goal of indicting Russian President Vladimir Putin. This marked a sharp break from precedent, as the United States had long insisted...

Bhaskar Nath Biswal India’s higher education ecosystem is undergoing a dramatic structural transformation. As the nation marches toward achieving a higher Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) under the roadmap laid out by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have multiplied across the...

Melvin Durai There are many kinds of leaks in the world, and whether you like them or not depends largely on whether you’re on the receiving end of them. Being on the receiving end of a leak can be quite thrilling if you’re a journalist,...