Opinion

Many elements of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's recent meeting with US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago were disconcerting, if not depressing. For starters, no American official met the Ukrainian head of state upon his arrival in Miami, which stands in stark contrast to the pomp...

By Melvin Durai If you’re feeling depressed, there is one thing I recommend to brighten your mood: ice cream. Nothing puts a smile on a person’s face faster than giving them ice cream. If you don’t believe me, just go to any public place, find...

By Shlomo Ben-Ami One year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has established himself as the most revolutionary US president in recent history. Whereas “America First” once seemed like an isolationist posture (not least to Trump’s MA GA base), it is now clear that it...

By Nabin Nanda   The recent unanimous passage of a financial bill in the Odisha Assembly to increase salaries and allowances of sitting MLAs, along with the pension of former MLAs, has generated widespread debate and criticism across the state. Much of the outrage, particularly...

By Malay Mishra Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office as the mayor of New York, the largest and most important city of USA, at a decommissioned subway of Manhattan to symbolise his affinity with the city’s workers and marginalised people whose cause he said...

The global economic order is being rewritten. Wars in Europe and West Asia, US–China rivalry, the return of tariffs, and the erosion of multilateral institutions have turned trade into an arena of power rather than rules. Trade is now about security, resilience, and influence as...

When US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declared that a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother had been gunned down by federal officials because she was committing “an act of domestic terrorism,” she was not making a factual claim. She was seeking a megalomaniac’s approval. Her boss, US...

By Bhaskar Nath Biswal India stands at a precarious crossroads where its demographic dividend is increasingly threatened by an invisible yet pervasive adversary: a deepening mental health crisis. Recent revelations from the Indian Psychiatric Society, shared ahead of their 77th annual national conference, paint a...

By Beata Javorcik While many people still view runaway population growth as today’s most urgent global challenge, falling fertility rates are the real demographic time bomb. Nearly two-thirds of people now live in countries where fertility is below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per...

By Chandra Bhushan There is a Hindi idiom — chutki lena — that loosely translates as teasing, trolling, mocking or putting someone down. Social media today is full of people taking chutki over air pollution in Delhi. The recent tweet by Chinese Embassy spokesperson, offering...