Opinion

Pedro Abramovay & Julia Sakr-Tierney From the moment it was announced, the ceasefire between the United States, Israel, and Iran has been marked by a different form of confrontation: peace on the precipice of war and war on the brink of resolution. The memorandum of...

Sally Wentworth World leaders will gather in New York this month for the 81st United Nations General Assembly under the theme “Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation.” While the rise of AI is bound to be at the top of their agenda, rebuilding trust in technology also...

Nicholas Stern The world must now face up to the fact that the increase in average global temperatures will surpass 1.5° Celsius, the more ambitious of the 2015 Paris climate agreement’s targets. That means devising a plan for managing the consequences—by increasing our focus on...

By Chander Gupta I am associated with a writers’ forum comprising of 30-odd members. The forum holds monthly meetings which are hosted on rotational basis by individual members. The host member proposes a literary topic for discussion in which all the ‘writer’ members participate by...

By Ashyashree Praharaj Inflation is among the most consequential economic challenges confronting households and policymakers.A sustained rise in the general price level reduces the purchasing power of money, disproportionately affecting lower- and middle-income households whose spending is concentrated on food, housing, transport, and essential services....

In April 2016, when the National Payments Corporation of India launched the Unified Payments Interface, few anticipated that a quiet public experiment would fundamentally alter how a billion people exchange value. Built on the simple premise of interbank interoperability, UPI turned complex bank account details...

The economy showing a stronger performance with 7.8 per cent GDP in the first quarter of current fiscal has sparked a fierce debate over what the headline number really says about India’s economic health. The Government attributes the strong performance to reforms, robust activity in...

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak There is no doubt that AI is leading transformation in different spheres of life and society, influencing every sector of the economy, politics, culture, individual life, infrastructure, and industrial growth. The AI-led ICT shapes governance, policy and decision-making debates unlike any...

By Stephen Holmes Few ideas have traveled as far as the Great Replacement, which holds that native populations are being deliberately supplanted by immigrants. Coined in France by the writer Renaud Camus, it has furnished the grammar for the advance of Marine Le Pen’s National...

By Rajdeep Sardesai Last week, Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration turned its attention to eateries run by ISKCON, the highly popular Krishna Consciousness movement. For millions of devotees, ISKCON is far more than just another institution. It is a global religious and spiritual movement with...