Opinion

The Indian ethos of inquiry and knowledge creation, Bharatiya Anusandhan Parampara, is a legacy that pre-dates recorded civilisational histories. Rooted in the ancient system of logic, observation, and interpretation, the Indian research tradition has contributed paradigms that transformed human understanding across disciplines. Today, as India...

The 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) was held from 13th to 15th February, where more than forty heads of state and government were in attendance. However, most of the leaders were from Europe and were fundamentally concerned about technological and geopolitical challenges to European security...

By Bhagirathi Jena Somewhere in the world today, in a rural hinterland, on the foothills of a jungle, or on a mountainous terrain in a tiny hamlet, an elderly woman is whispering a story to her grandchild. A mother is singing a lullaby to make...

By DK Giri The jogging by Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, in the streets of Mumbai is not only a story of routine physical exercise, it is also a sign of the fast-growing friendship between two countries. The bilateralism between France and India is...

By Sandip Pati People in government and industry love to celebrate agreements. They believe that signing trade deals is the hard part; that once the ink dries, opportunities flow naturally. At the national level, the language around India’s new FTAs with the EU, UK, US,...

By Bhabani Shankar Nayak The more than three million Epstein files, including those already released, not only reveal an entrenched criminal network of perverted ruling elites and rotten capitalist socialites with an inhuman sexual appetite for young girls, but also expose their power, influence, and...

By Slavoj Žižek In the summer of 1989, Francis Fukuyama presented his vision of the end of history. Since liberal-democratic capitalism is the best possible social order, he argued, no further progress was possible, other than through the preferred order’s gradual realization around the world....

For centuries, the contribution of women (care economy) has been ignored in national accounts. It is specifically predominant in India and especially in Odisha due to the orthodox socio-cultural customs and traditions. The patriarchal society deeply ingrains the conviction that women will take care of...

Last month, I travelled across India, listening, observing, and taking stock. While the journey was energising and often in spiring, it left me with an open question: Where is the world's most populous country headed? My trip began in West Bengal’s Purulia district, a relatively...

As soon as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio rose to address this year’s Munich Security Conference, it was evident that the Trump administration intended to change its rhetoric toward America’s longstanding European allies. While Vice President JD Vance used his remarks last year to...