Opinion
Timely Supply Side Intervention Such as Import of Pulses Needed to Counter Inflation Effect: Economists
The arrival of fresh crops into the market this quarter is expected to ease price pressures in the food basket. But the inflation pain will continue, with full-year forecast still at 5.4%
Opinion | What Is It Like To Be A Muslim In India?
The baggage of the two-nation theory is being shed by the million Indian Muslims, which led to the partition of India, more than 70 years ago
Opinion | What Makes Modi Unbeatable? So, Is 2024 A Done Deal?
Rahul Shivshankar and Siddhartha Talya’s ‘Modi and India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat’ serves as a guide for the INDI alliance, offering strategies to pave its path for 2024 and overcome its bête noire, BJP
Opinion | Antisemitism on American Campuses Can Soon Take a Hinduphobic Turn
In the name of Palestine, they seek the decimation of Israel and Jews. And in the name of Hindutva, they work for the dismantling of India and Hinduism
Opinion | Looking Back at the Role of Tanks in India’s Conclusive Victory of 1971
In spite of the changing face of warfare, we need to draw appropriate lessons from the 1971 War which reveal that the advantages tanks bring to land warfare are outweighed by vulnerabilities that new technologies can pitch against them
Opinion | India’s Gati Shakti Masterplan to Go Global, Pioneering New Era in International Infrastructure Development
The tech-savviness and sheer power of the Gati Shakti masterplan could prove to be extremely beneficial for the developing world, and cement India’s position as not just the voice, but also the leader of the Global South
Opinion | Modi Way Ahead of Others Before 2024 Polls, Can the Opposition Catch Up?
The BJP looks too far ahead, its rivals too demoralised to go into the 2024 general elections with any degree of competitive parity
Book Review | ‘Dethroned’ Chronicles Sardar Patel’s Pragmatism And Jawaharlal Nehru’s Naivety
Deeply researched and persuasively presented, John Zubrzycki’s ‘Dethroned: Patel, Menon, and the Integration of Princely India’ explores the foresightedness and efforts of Sardar Patel and VP Menon that led princely states to join India, relinquish their...
Opinion | As an Assamese, Kashmir is as Much Mine as Assam is of a Kashmiri
The clarion call of the legal verdict reverberates — Article 370 was, by its very nature, a transient provision, a pawn in the hands of a few, wielded to sow seeds of division within our nation
OPINION | Congress And Its Fellow Travellers Should Stop Insulting Voters of India
The fellow travellers of the Congress party have never had much respect for the intelligence of the common voter. But dismissing the voter as ‘WhatsApp University’ does not work
Opinion | BJP's Assembly Poll Success and the Agenda of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’
The Congress and other Opposition parties must handle the recent electoral defeats with grace
Mahua Has Been Burned at The Stake. But A Latter Day Joan Of Arc She Is Not
In the end, it is safe to say that Mahua Moitra has been burned at the stake. But desire as she might, she won’t be hailed by history as the Joan of Arc of politics
Opinion | An Indian Solution to the Israel-Palestine Imbroglio
Until Jews and Muslims learn from Indian culture, they won’t be able to break free from the spiral of violence. Neither Abrahamic monotheism nor Western secularism could show the path
Indian Ink | Hamas-Israel Conflict: Does Sanatana Dharma Have the Answer?
The cult of violence and fanatical hatred for the Other, whether in the Hamas-Israel fight or elsewhere, is perhaps the most dangerous and destabilising force in our times
Opinion | Assembly Poll Results Likely to Increase Chance of NDA’s Expansion and Tussle Within INDIA Bloc
BJP dealt a big blow to Congress by snatching Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh while retaining MP. Telangana was the only consolation prize for Congress. This is likely to have an impact on both the BJP-led NDA and Opposition-led INDIA ahead of next year’s Lok...
Opinion | Why Political Settlement is in Quandary in West Asia
Engaging in a tame hostage-prisoner exchange shows Israel’s war against Hamas has not entirely proceeded on the lines envisaged. Whereas the example of Gaza has stigmatised the two-state solution, the region can ill afford to drift without a political set...