Opinion

Rajdeep Sardesai In poll-bound Kerala, the election noise is loud—but the silences are louder. On a recent trip through the coastal state, I noticed something unsettling. In town after town, familiar small tea shops—the lifeblood of everyday conversation—were shuttered. Not all, but enough to be...

Chiara Cordelli We live in a world of senseless suffering and impending catastrophe, where it would seem the idea of moral progress has become unintelligible. Two epochal crises afflict contemporary society: the rise of anti-democratic forces and climate change. But what if today’s tragedies turn...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra When humanity dares to utter the word “happiness,” it unknowingly steps into a labyrinth of philosophical contradictions. Is happiness an ephemeral whisper of the mind, or the scintillating shadow cast by material success? In the modern age—dominated by consumerism and spectacle—happiness is...

Rajya Sabha deputy leader from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Raghav Chadha has been removed from his position. In an official communication to the Rajya Sabha secretariat, the party leadership requested that Chadha should not be allotted speaking time from AAP’s quota in the Rajya Sabha....

The war in West Asia, perhaps the most debilitating in over two decades, has reached its second month on an aggressive and dangerous pitch with both sides, Israel-USA and Iran, fighting an asymmetric war whose objectives have seen rapid swings with no coherence. Amidst this...

In a rambling address to the American people on 1 April, US President Donald Trump claimed that the US war against Iran has been a success, vowing to “finish the job ... very fast.” It was a statement in obvious conflict with the facts. Trump...

Melvin Durai While conducting research on insurance online, I came across a LinkedIn article by the insurance platform BimaPay. The article is titled, “5 Insurances Every Indian Should Have, Including You.” By “every Indian,” they do not actually mean “every Indian.” In their second paragraph,...

Ian Buruma Perhaps Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sincerely believed that Israeli bombs would prompt the Iranians to topple their theocratic dictatorship and establish a democratic state. It seemed for a moment that US President Donald Trump did, too. But given Trump's capriciousness about most...

By Ákos Tóth There is now a distinct pos sibility that Hungary’s main opposition party, Tisza, will defeat Viktor Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party in the country's parliamentary elections on 12 April. This has prompted Tisza’s leader, Péter Magyar, to promise that if his party wins,...

By Jagdish Rattanani A new report by Oxfam has brought to focus unaccounted wealth stashed away by the world’s super-rich in tax havens and called on governments to strengthen taxation systems, increase financial transparency and move towards creating a global asset register to identify, track...