Opinion

By Rajdeep Sardesai On Diwali night, as the clock struck mid night, sleepless and exasperated with the relentless firecracker noise, I rang up the local police station. “Its past midnight and crackers are still being burst. Will you take action as per the Supreme Court...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Human history is crammed with evidence of what economists call creative destruction, the process of innovation that propels economic growth. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2025 has been award ed to Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University in the US;...

Bhabani Shankar Nayak The government of India, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the British government led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has claimed that the India–UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, also known as the India–UK Free Trade Agreement ment will...

Nandini Satpathy, the formidable Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting in Indira Gandhi’s government, played a pivotal role during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. This war was not just a conflict between East and West Pakistan but a profound clash of cultures. On one...

On 11th December, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgment on the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35(A). Through its judgment, the Court has upheld the sovereignty and integrity of India, something that is cherished by every Indian. The Supreme Court rightly...

A few days ago we lost Professor MS Swaminathan. Our nation lost a visionary who revolutionised agricultural science, a stalwart whose contribution to India will always be etched in golden letters. Prof. MS Swaminathan loved India and wanted our nation, and our farmers in particular,...

Mankind has been fighting against nature since its evolution. But the motive has changed over time. Initially, the fight was to fulfill basic requirements like food, shelter, and clothes; now, the same has changed to taming it primarily with technology to establish authority by today’s...

The question of moving away from established “mainstream” history has been gaining traction in recent years. A spate of successful best-selling books on overlooked figures like Subhash Bose, Vallabhai Patel, Bhagat Singh, and Savarkar testify to a desire among the masses to explore the alternative...

The question of ideology in Indian politics has been debated and dismissed for a long time. Writing for the New York Times, the American political pundit Anand Giridharadas dismisses Indian elections as one being without “ideology, larger-than-life leaders, causes or principles.” The flaw in the...

The quest for gender parity originated in the early 20th Century as a labour movement in North America, USSR and Europe. The first feminist wave swept the world, with women demanding the equal right to vote and property rights. In the second wave which started...