Opinion

Pratigyan Das A viral crowd-work segment from a stand-up show by comedian Pranit More has created a ruckus on social media. The video clip showed Himanshu Jangra, an audience, recounting a date where he spent Rs 370 on chicken biryani and then suggested that he...

The Rajesh Exports controversy has produced one of the most astonishing numbers in Indian corporate history. The SEBI’s interim order, after two years of initial probe, alleges that the company overstated revenues by Rs15.15 lakh crore between FY21 and FY25. At the centre of the...

When G7 leaders gather in Évian on 15 June, they will confront a postwar order that has run its course. The United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, and other pillars of international cooperation—all founded on the belief that universal rules could underpin global governance—delivered decades...

Dhurjati Mukherjee The outlook for the Indian economy in the current fiscal sadly does not appear quite encouraging, despite growing 7.8% in January-March quarter of the last fiscal. The Reserve Bank of India left the repo rate unchanged at 5.25% but reduced its growth forecast...

Peter Singer Pope Leo XIV deserves great credit for making AI the topic of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitatis. Leo’s call for more thought and action about AI deserves to be heard by policymakers and publics, religious or secular, everywhere. Leo rightly notes that AI...

By Bhaskar Nath Biswal India’s demographic dividend is widely celebrated as the engine of its future. The millions of young minds navigating our Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are quite literally the future of the nation, tasked with driving economic, technological, and social growth. Yet, as...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The world today is witnessing an unparalleled concentration of wealth. Never before in human history have so few individuals controlled such vast economic resources. While technological innovation, globalization, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and financial markets have created extraordinary opportunities for wealth generation,...

Rajdeep Sardesai Sequels in Indian cinema rarely work. Audiences have usually seen the original, the novelty factor is gone and the script feels stale. There are exceptions like the recent blockbuster Dhurandhar, of course, but most follow-ups struggle to recreate the magic of the first...

Adam Michael Bauer & Gernot Wagner   The AI race is already generating forces that are transforming the global economy. That makes it surprisingly similar to the green transition, given the potential of both to upend traditional industries, labour markets, and geopolitical balances. Both call...

Water governance rarely attracts public attention until scarcity, conflict, or drought exposes weaknesses in the system. Yet the institutions that manage water often determine whether investments in irrigation improve agricultural outcomes. More than two decades ago, Odisha attempted to address this challenge through an ambitious...