Opinion

By Rajdeep Sardesai   No two words have been as overused (rather misused) in the political lexicon quite like ‘High Command’. Conceptually, the idea of a ‘High Command’ is repugnant to a parliamentary multi-party democracy, reflecting the ascent of the ‘elected autocrat’. Traditionally, this word...

By Gordon Brown   Hundreds of Nigerian children remain in captivity or unaccounted for after being abducted from their schools in November. Even the recent rescue of 100 students has done little to restore confidence. In many areas of northern and central Nigeria, school attendance...

By Marcello Estevão Next year, global growth is expected to be near 3.1%, almost the same as this year. To many observers, such steadiness suggests a world economy drifting sideways, neither slowing nor accelerating. But the stability implied by the headline figure is the product...

The National Statistics Office’s latest report for the July–September 2025 quarter has reignited a debate over what India's economic data truly reveals. At first glance, the picture seems radiant. India recorded 8.2% real GDP growth— the highest in six quarters and well above the IMF's...

Conventional thinking from mainstream economists travelling down to the average citizen has it that GDP growth is desirable and good – the higher the better. India now reports high growth, with the last announcement giving a surprisingly robust GDP growth of 8.2%. But the nation...

The post-neoliberal consensus is here, but don't look for it in US President Donald Trump's policies. After a decade of backlash, it is time to accept not only that neoliberalism is dead but also that a new consensus is taking its place. Remarkably, significant segments...

By Melvin Durai Lionel Messi is considered the greatest football player of this era, so it shouldn’t be surprising that his three-day visit to India created more commotion than a visit from the Pope. It was billed as the GOAT Tour and fans in four...

By Emmanuel Macron   It has been ten years since COP21 in Paris, where 195 states made a historic commitment to work together to keep the long-term rise in global temperatures well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature...

By Nikunja Bihari Sahu The national capital on Sunday woke up to a thick layer of smog, with air quality lingering in the 'severe' category.’ The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) recorded the Air Quality Index (AQI) at 462 in the morning. All 40 monitoring...

By Jan-Werner Mueller We have become so accustomed to aspiring auto crats attacking universities that we hardly ever stop to ask why. But pushing back against authoritarians requires understanding their motivations and strategies. University leaders, in particular, ought to be better prepared to coordinate resistance...