Opinion

By Kartik Shanker Every winter, there are three ‘tsunamis’ that hit the east coast of India. The most striking is the remarkable arribada or mass nesting of Olive Ridley turtles in Odisha, when tens or hundreds of thousands of female turtles nest simultaneously within a...

By Rajdeep Sardesai The 'shirtless' Youth Congress protest at the AI summit in Delhi has produced the kind of reactions that now arrive almost by reflex. Outrage. Mockery. Moral grandstanding. Within minutes, social media and hyper-ventilating prime time shows playing the visuals in a loop...

By Alexander De Croo This year's Munich Security Conference brought plenty of talk about geopolitics, spheres of influence, the future of NATO, and defence budgets. But as much as these debates matter, they no longer define the full spectrum of power. In today's fractured world,...

In a world where economies increasingly pivot towards experience-driven tourism growth, Odisha finds itself blessed with an en viable portfolio of assets that few states can match. From the majestic spires of the Jagannath Temple in Puri to the serene backwaters of Chilika, from the...

Much hype has been created about Artificial Intelligence (AI) before and after the recent summit, as world leaders and leading technical experts shared their experience and expertise. In his inaugural address, Prime Minister Modi presented India’s Manav (human) vision for AI and, at the end,...

If there was any doubt remaining about the return of great-power politics, it has been dispelled by US President Donald Trump's attack on Venezuela, threats to annex Greenland, and refusal to extend the New START treaty limiting the nuclear arsenals of the United States and...

Anya Schiffrin & Roberta Carlini Media outlets worldwide are dying. On top of a persistent lack of funding, they must now contend with AI summaries and chatbots, which are siphoning away audiences. A recent study found that in 2025, online traffic to news sites fell...

Melvin Durai During the Winter Olympics, while Americans were cheering for Americans, Norwegians were cheering for Norwegians, and Germans were cheering for Germans, people of all nationalities were cheering for a little monkey named Punch. The 7-month-old macaque monkey was having trouble making friends with...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The latest annual report of Oxfam, released alongside the World Economic Forum at Davos, presents a disturbing portrait of the contemporary global order. It documents not merely an extraordinary concentration of wealth at the top, but a growing fusion of economic might...

Jagdish Rattanani While the nation was attracted to the AI summit in New Delhi and distracted by the horrendous claims of a university on developing a robodog that was in fact imported from China, a different kind of attention was focused on twins from Odisha...