Opinion

By Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The Union Cabinet’s approval on October 14of the proposed sale of a 60.72% controlling stake in IDBI Bank to Fairfax, led by Indian-born Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa, marks a significant shift in India's banking policy. Valued at 52,878 crore, the transaction...

By Carla Norrlöf Attacks on one’s reputation used to be the price that celebrities paid for fame. But now it is a hazard of ordinary life. Anyone with any standing to lose is vulnerable. If you have an online presence, the damage can spread much...

By Jonathan Levy After weeks of mounting tension on the streets of Paris, my wife and I decided to take our six-year-old daughter and leave town during Saturday’s protests. When the main demonstration assembled at 2 pm at the Place de la République, we were...

Riots have returned to the streets in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. The world is witnessing different waves of riots across the globe. French cities are burning. From Albania, Bangladesh, Britain and Germany to Nepal, France and the USA, riots are increasingly used...

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...