Opinion

Melvin Durai During the Winter Olympics, while Americans were cheering for Americans, Norwegians were cheering for Norwegians, and Germans were cheering for Germans, people of all nationalities were cheering for a little monkey named Punch. The 7-month-old macaque monkey was having trouble making friends with...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The latest annual report of Oxfam, released alongside the World Economic Forum at Davos, presents a disturbing portrait of the contemporary global order. It documents not merely an extraordinary concentration of wealth at the top, but a growing fusion of economic might...

Jagdish Rattanani While the nation was attracted to the AI summit in New Delhi and distracted by the horrendous claims of a university on developing a robodog that was in fact imported from China, a different kind of attention was focused on twins from Odisha...

The Indian ethos of inquiry and knowledge creation, Bharatiya Anusandhan Parampara, is a legacy that pre-dates recorded civilisational histories. Rooted in the ancient system of logic, observation, and interpretation, the Indian research tradition has contributed paradigms that transformed human understanding across disciplines. Today, as India...

The 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) was held from 13th to 15th February, where more than forty heads of state and government were in attendance. However, most of the leaders were from Europe and were fundamentally concerned about technological and geopolitical challenges to European security...

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...