Opinion

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...

By Shivaji Sarkar Two giants meet. Since 1962, in a first, a US President welcomes a country head at air base in person – a rare moment indeed for a short truce till January 2027 – about three months. Perhaps, the world should rejoice. But...

By Kaushik Basu Over the past decade, scholars and journalists have been writing about what the march of digital technology means for humanity with a mixture of hope and anxiety: hope because of the rise in living standards that the digital revolution has made possible,...

By Ansuman Das & Pranaya Kumar Swain For decades, nuclear energy sat uneasily at the margins of the climate debate: valued for its low emissions, distrusted for its cost and history of accidents. That is changing, as demand rises and countries race to decarbonise power...

By Lee Jong-Wha AI is advancing at a breathtaking pace, and so are fears about its impact on jobs, especially for young people entering the labour market. The tasks generative AI can increasingly perform—writing computer code, summarising documents, analysing data, and handling customer inquiries—are precisely...

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak The demonisation of Marx, Marxism, and its emancipatory logic on an everyday basis is not new. All emancipatory philosophies, philosophers and their radical projects of social, cultural, political, and economic change face similar roadblocks. Despite all propaganda against the emancipatory praxis...

I remember the day PM Modi completed 12 continuous years in office as India’s first elected PM (even surpassing Nehru’s record of 17 years!) a senior politician of the ruling party had visited my house surrounded by his cronies demanding that I give a soundbite...