Opinion

The passage of the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025 called the VB-G RAM G Bill, marks a decisive break from one of India’s most consequential social legislations. It replaced the landmark National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) of 2005,...

Back in the early 1980s, Sterling Price worked as a cook at a pizza restaurant in Springdale, Ar kansas, and this is before there were any national sandwich chains in town like Subways. As Sterling tells the story, “A lady came in one day and...

Where, in today's world, do all our antagonisms and struggles for survival converge? Is there a singular point that embodies our universal predicament? It is not Gaza, Ukraine, Su dan, or the scam centers in the north of Myanmar. It is Tehran. The Iranian capital...

By Chander Gupta Constant spate of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) has been hitting the Indian markets steadily. A layman investor would think that more and more money is being infused in the companies’ balance sheets with mobilisation of funds through IPOs. A naïve investor would...

By Jayati Ghosh For many in the developing world, Brazil is a rare beacon of hope in an otherwise bleak global landscape. Along with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is among the few world leaders who have stood...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee In his letter to the citizens on ‘Constitution Day’ or ‘Samvidhan Divas’, Prime Minister Modi waxed eloquence on the citizens’ primary responsibility to perform duties without in any way upholding their justiciable fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution or other constitutional rights...

By Rajdeep Sardesai   No two words have been as overused (rather misused) in the political lexicon quite like ‘High Command’. Conceptually, the idea of a ‘High Command’ is repugnant to a parliamentary multi-party democracy, reflecting the ascent of the ‘elected autocrat’. Traditionally, this word...

By Gordon Brown   Hundreds of Nigerian children remain in captivity or unaccounted for after being abducted from their schools in November. Even the recent rescue of 100 students has done little to restore confidence. In many areas of northern and central Nigeria, school attendance...

By Marcello Estevão Next year, global growth is expected to be near 3.1%, almost the same as this year. To many observers, such steadiness suggests a world economy drifting sideways, neither slowing nor accelerating. But the stability implied by the headline figure is the product...

The National Statistics Office’s latest report for the July–September 2025 quarter has reignited a debate over what India's economic data truly reveals. At first glance, the picture seems radiant. India recorded 8.2% real GDP growth— the highest in six quarters and well above the IMF's...