Opinion

By Chander Gupta I had been contemplating holidaying with my wife in a foreign country this summer, but we were feeling deterred by visa hassles and long-duration flights. Being in our sixties, we are inclined to take it easy. Both of us are having passports...

By Ian Buruma Anthony Fauci has had a long and distinguished career as an immunologist. But you wouldn't know that from his recent hearing before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Republican senators hurled gratuitous attacks on the former director of...

By Lee Jong-Wha Around the world, governments are again using the tools of industrial policy—subsidies, tax incentives, public finance, trade measures, and strategic regulation—to shape their economies. South Korea is no exception. President Lee Jae-myung’s government has launched an ambitious strategy to promote semiconductors, AI...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken to Instagram, aiming his messages at the tell-it-as-it-is generation called the ‘Gen Z’.  The RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has also chimed in to the current times by opening conversations with them. The entire establishment, it appears, wants to listen...

For more than two decades, digital platforms have monetised our attention and social interactions. But today's AI models extract value from another source: our collective knowledge. Every article, photograph, code, video, and online comment can be turned into training data—trillions of so-called tokens—and ultimately into...

In a first, the national song Vande Mataram will be sung from the ramparts of Red Fort during India’s 80th Independence Day on 15 August. Outlining the new ceremonial sequence, the Ministry of Defence in a statement said that the song will be sung following...

By Dr Debabrata Swain The elephant, Earth’s largest terrestrial mammal, is deeply woven into Odisha’s cultural, spiritual, and geopolitical history. Simple and serene with its magnificent proboscis, this gentle giant requires massive, unbroken forested terrains to forage, consuming hundreds of kilograms of foliage and grass...

By Melvin Durai Some of the hardest-working people in the world are farm workers. I appreciate them not just because they produce food for us, but also because they endure conditions that I would not be able to handle. Not only do many of them...

By Dani Rodrik As China continues to capture global markets in manufacturing and its trade surpluses grow, it is increasingly viewed elsewhere as a country whose economic growth comes at the expense of the rest of the world. China’s industrial policies and growth model at...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra India aspires to become a developed nation by 2047. It is already one of the world's largest economies and has one of the world's youngest populations. Yet beneath the impressive statistics of GDP, digital expansion and infrastructure creation lies a fundamental question:...