Opinion

I have never counted how many times I say “thank you” during a day, but it probably amounts to a couple of dozen. I say “thank you” to the person who holds the door open for me, “thank you” to the clerk who bags my...

During his recent visit to Washington, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China would send a breeding pair of giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta. The “envoys of friendship,” Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, arrived just a few days later. This is hardly the first time...

A missile fired from Yemen, a highway disrupted in Manipur and a rise in petrol prices may appear to be separate developments. Yet all three expose India’s vulnerabilities in an increasingly unstable world. The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia threaten energy supplies and international shipping....

Recent events in Delhi deserve to be seen beyond the immediate confrontation between the government and the Opposition. Something deeper is taking shape in India—a crisis of trust between citizens, particularly the young, and institutions expected to stand above day-to-day politics. The Election Commission is...

By Malay Mishra “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac”, a quote attributed to the late American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, finds a different context, time and place with reference to the nation-wide protests against the controversial exercise of the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral...

By Lekha Rattanani Since July, there have been two major protests in the country. The first, a Gen Z-led student agitation centred around Jantar Mantar, forced the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in July. The second is pushing for the removal of the...

By Pratigyan Das Recently, as Cyclone Arnab and heavy rains battered Odisha, the coastal state was hit by yet another round of flooding. This came barely weeks after its fifth spell of flooding in less than two months, when more than one lakh people across...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee In the backdrop of the ruling dispensation’s claims of spectacular economic growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal, a crucial question arises: can the momentum be sustained? With crude oil prices hovering around $100 per barrel, the outlook remains challenging....

By Rajdeep Sardesai Anyone remember Hardik Patel? Just a decade ago, he dominated front pages and prime-time television. Only 22 when he became the face of the Patidar agitation in Gujarat in 2015, Hardik led rallies that rattled the BJP government and exposed its vulnerabilities....

The report of the Lancet Commission on ‘21st Century Global Threats to Health’ has identified seventeen threats to global health: air pollution, antimicrobial resistance, childhood malnutrition, climate change, the collapse of development and health assistance and aid, conventional conflicts, high alcohol use, high blood pressure,...