Opinion

By Bhagirathi Jena Somewhere in the world today, in a rural hinterland, on the foothills of a jungle, or on a mountainous terrain in a tiny hamlet, an elderly woman is whispering a story to her grandchild. A mother is singing a lullaby to make...

By DK Giri The jogging by Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, in the streets of Mumbai is not only a story of routine physical exercise, it is also a sign of the fast-growing friendship between two countries. The bilateralism between France and India is...

By Sandip Pati People in government and industry love to celebrate agreements. They believe that signing trade deals is the hard part; that once the ink dries, opportunities flow naturally. At the national level, the language around India’s new FTAs with the EU, UK, US,...

By Slavoj Žižek In the summer of 1989, Francis Fukuyama presented his vision of the end of history. Since liberal-democratic capitalism is the best possible social order, he argued, no further progress was possible, other than through the preferred order’s gradual realization around the world....

Last month, I travelled across India, listening, observing, and taking stock. While the journey was energising and often in spiring, it left me with an open question: Where is the world's most populous country headed? My trip began in West Bengal’s Purulia district, a relatively...

As soon as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio rose to address this year’s Munich Security Conference, it was evident that the Trump administration intended to change its rhetoric toward America’s longstanding European allies. While Vice President JD Vance used his remarks last year to...

Melvin Durai I do not fly often, but next time I take a flight with my family, I’m going to carry a pair of boxing gloves with me — just in case a fight breaks out. I believe in non-violence, but if punches are being...

Maciej Kisilowski & Anna Wojciuk   US President Donald Trump, whose life has revolved around turning himself into a global brand, now seems intent on destroying what he has created. In his first year back in office, Trump has sown chaos in American cities and...

By Paolo Surico When we think about wartime innovation, we usually imagine dramatic breakthroughs: Alan Turing's cracking of the Nazi Enigma code, the invention of radar, the Manhattan Project's development of the atomic bomb. But a less visible biological innovation – the mass production of...

By Ajit Ranade India’s fiscal federalism runs on a deceptively simple bargain: the Union collects most broad-based taxes, while the States carry the frontline responsibility for essential public services—schools, hospitals, policing, local roads, water supply, and much else. The tax revenues and spending duties do...