Opinion

Caren Grown & Kendall Trelegan It is getting harder by the day to justify the slow pace of adaptation to climate change. Last year was one of the hottest on record, with economies and communities around the world disrupted by extreme heat, heavy rainfall, and...

India’s markets are in a tizzy. Prices of pakoras have reportedly appreciated by 40%, samosas by 33%, while costs from fuel to paint are also rising. Policies meant to tame prices appear increasingly unable to contain the pressure on household budgets. Dalal Street, meanwhile, has...

Bilateral trade agreements appear to be shaping the future. The interim trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay), which has been applied provisionally since May 2026, may set standards for a new wave of deals. Mercosur is already pursuing...

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak The world today is facing an unprecedented level and volume of crisis, the gravest since the World War II. Imperialist wars and resource conflicts pursued to sustain the dominance of Yankee hegemony; technological disruptions; the climate crisis; the forward march of...

By Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Prime Minister Narendra Modi has revived his familiar “glass half full and half empty” analogy to criticise critics questioning India’s recent economic performance. Defending the latest GDP growth figure, he suggested that for such “naysayers”, the glass will remain half empty...

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...