Opinion

Melvin Durai There are many kinds of leaks in the world, and whether you like them or not depends largely on whether you’re on the receiving end of them. Being on the receiving end of a leak can be quite thrilling if you’re a journalist,...

John J. Donohue& Charlie Grabois After the right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk’s death last year, a video clip resurfaced in which he proclaimed that Black Americans “are poorer, more murderous, and more dangerous” today than in the Jim Crow era. The soundbite sparked outrage in liberal...

Pratigyan Das In a major shift in policy, the taboo surrounding sex education in India is finally set to end, as the subject is poised to become a part of school curriculum. The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that it has decided to introduce...

Rohan Sandhu A reckoning has just played out on the streets of New Delhi and other major Indian cities. Tens of thousands of young Indians rose up against an education system that is failing them, ultimately securing the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan—a powerful...

The World Bank classifies India as a lower-middle-income (LMI) economy rather than a ‘weak country,’ a status it has maintained since 2009. In other words, the WB has not revised India’s actual socio-economic status for the last 17 years. This has caused a dichotomy. In...

Just as French aristocrats under the ancienrégime could hardly imagine the abolition of their noble titles, most of today's university leaders cannot conceive of a world in which the degrees they confer become worthless pieces of paper. The former were in for a rude awakening...

By Bruhaspati Samal There are moments in history when silence becomes louder than slogans, when folded hands become heavier than raised fists, and when the greatest tragedy is not oppression itself but the willingness of the oppressed to live comfortably beneath it. Every civilisation has...

By Sagari Gupta Odisha has entered a new phase of industrial development. The state’s policy debate is no longer centred on whether investors are willing to come. Recent official data suggests that investor interest is strong. The more important question is whether approved projects are...

By Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Few words in contemporary politics are abused as casually as the term ‘Leftist.’ It has become a convenient political weapon, used to silence rather than to debate. Today, anyone who questions the government, criticizes the concentration of wealth, exposes corporate excesses,...

By Kevin Hyland & Robert D. Marin In 2016, then-Prime Minister Theresa May marked the first anniversary of the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act with a commentary touting how our research in the UK and Romania had helped uncover “criminal gangs creating twinned towns of...