Opinion

By Dhurjati Mukherjee For the last few years, analysts were afraid about the induction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it was perceived to be a threat to employment, particularly in a labour-intensive country such as India. Various propositions were advanced about its positive effects in...

By Prof (Dr) Kiran Seth We call him Father of the Nation. It is an honour, but it is also a limitation. In this case the father tag limits him to a political and historical figure. He gives us a nation. The people who lived...

By Rajdeep Sardesai Last week, Rahul Gandhi set the cat among the political pigeons when he asked a deceptively simple question: why do Narendra Modi and the BJP appear resistant to anti-incumbency even after more than a decade in power? “Even my grandmother was defeated...

Carolina Alves Economics has spent the last three decades celebrating what it calls a credibility revolution. Armed with natural experiments, randomized controlled trials, and increasingly sophisticated statistical techniques, economists claim to have become less ideological and more scientific. The discipline now prides itself on answering...

Pratigyan Das Three disturbing cases of sexual assault, within a month, have once again put the growing threat women face in public spaces under the scanner. In Bihar’s Jamui, a teenage girl was allegedly molested after she and a male friend were surrounded by a...

Dr Srimanta Misra Understanding the changing geopolitical equation of the 21st century requires looking at history, where shifts in geopolitical power have followed changes in economic, technological and military strength—from sea routes and warfare to energy resources and artificial intelligence. For centuries, power was closely...

Daron Acemoglu Following repeated security debacles at OpenAI and Anthropic—both of which have developed agents that ended up hacking external systems—AI safety researchers within both firms have either announced their resignations or (finally!) conceded that the breathless race to advance the “frontier” is irresponsible. In...

Melvin Durai If you love to read, give yourself a pat on the back. Reading is one of the most important things you can do for your brain health, as scientific research has shown. It doesn’t really matter what you read or how you read...

By Otmar Issing Following the 2007–08 global financial crisis, the world's leading central banks spent more than a decade unconcerned about inflation. Instead, they focused their efforts on combating deflationary pressures, while academic discourse was dominated by the notion of secular stagnation and its implications...

By Sudarshan Iyengar The Election Commission of India is not an ordinary government department. It is a constitutional institution entrusted with something more fundamental than conducting elections: protecting the citizen’s right to choose. Article 324 vests the Commission with superintendence, direction and control over electoral...