Opinion

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...

Dr Srimanta Misra Understanding the changing geopolitical equation of the 21st century requires looking at history, where shifts in geopolitical power have followed changes in economic, technological and military strength—from sea routes and warfare to energy resources and artificial intelligence. For centuries, power was closely...

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...