Opinion

Sagari Gupta Odisha’s drought-relief system is being reshaped through a combination of rural-employment restructuring, fiscal controls, and disaster-financing rules. The transition from MGNREGA to the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), or VB-G RAM G, is not merely a change in programme design....

Carolina Alves Governments around the world are struggling to devise a sensible approach to managing inflation and disruptions to production and the supply of basic goods. The UK Treasury, for example, has just issued a proposal to encourage supermarkets to cap prices on essentials (such...

Inflation in India is not merely the result of global shocks; it is increasingly a product of high fuel taxes, cesses and pricing policies that amplify costs across the economy. The country’s heavy dependence on petroleum and gas—further entrenched by schemes such as Ujjwala—has made...

Against the backdrop of major global geopolitical tensions, the European Union and India continue to move forward with one of their most ambitious economic projects: the EU–India Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Negotiations had formally concluded in January 2026, but the treaty is still far from...

By Bhaskar Nath Biswal The true measure of a civilization lies in how it treats its most vulnerable members and in the Indian ethos, no group is more revered, at least in rhetoric, than our senior citizens. However, as India rapidly transitions from a collection...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee As per latest reports all 50 of the world’s hottest cities are in India as a brutal heatwave tightened its grip, pushing temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius, sometimes even before noon. What makes the heat unbearable is the ‘real feel’ temperature...

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak Despite the flag-waving white supremacist an ti-immigration policies and propaganda promoted by governing capitalist classes, and their reactionary politics, increasing numbers of people are leaving the capitalist heartlands of the USA and the UK. In the name of reactionary nationalism, capitalism...

By Rajdeep Sardesai Long before the ubiquitous cockroach became part of our political vocabulary, it was part of mine. At journalism lectures, I would often compare journalists to cockroaches. Why? Because if, God forbid, a nuclear explosion destroyed the world tomorrow, the cockroach alone would...

By Dana Humaid Al Marzouqi & Joanna Shields In a recent New York Times essay, Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno posed a provocative question: Can religion make AI more moral? Religion, he argued, draws its transformative power not from doctrine or scripture, but from...

In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV delivered one of the most consequential moral reckonings in modern Catholic history: a formal acknowledgement of the Vatican’s historical failures regarding slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. The apology marked a significant moment not only for the Roman Catholic...