We tried to raise both our children in the school of humanism. We could not control what they saw online or heard from friends, but I could curate what they encountered at home: A thoughtful article, a film watched together, a lively conversation around the dinner table

Policies, programmes, and interventions that include men as part of the gender-equity conversation, not as its counterpart, can foster healthier, more compassionate expressions of masculinity

The US may just have given the Pakistanis too much leeway. It may come back to haunt Washington once the dust settles on the trade negotiations with India

The MGB did not lose merely because the NDA campaigned better. It lost because it failed to grow

It makes liberals confront the question of whether they are willing to settle for representation without redistribution, diversity without democratisation, and freedom without fraternity

The country is now witnessing a bitter struggle between the vanquished Awami League of Sheikh Hasina and the Interim Government

A useful parallel lies in the 1970s when Arab nations sought to wield global influence by restricting oil supplies

For the NDA, this mandate validates the emphasis on infrastructure, welfare delivery and security, yet it also raises expectations for faster job creation, deeper reforms and continual institutional improvement

Counter-terror needs political oxygen and economic opportunity. It is a long haul, not a quick battle

The Federation of Indian Export Organisations must engage more with RBI and other agencies for creating awareness among exporters about trade settlement in rupees and currencies of trading partners.

The protests in Delhi are a sign – nebulous perhaps – of the sensitivity of the city’s residents towards the national capital’s clean air problem. It’s now the turn of administrators to take the next step

Far from depicting Partition as a mere historical event, Ghatak examined its ongoing, everyday effects through stories of uprooted families, dispossessed women, and lost childhoods, using melodrama not for escapism but as a radical reflection of social wounds

The dark history of Indri was related to me by a friend who was nearly choking with rage that at some dinner party the host served him the malt before casually revealing its origins. How can you spend a rupee on that guy and make him richer, he argued, rejigging old memories of how Sharma almost got away with murder.

Jharkhand’s 25 years of statehood should be more than a ceremonial moment and call for reflection. The state must recall its leaders not as distant icons but as voices of an unfinished struggle, and return to the movement’s core promise of a Jharkhand where its people can live with dignity, justice, and equality.

The BJP’s usual trump card in ensuring a well-oiled campaign machine was Home Minister Amit Shah’s organisational skills and unflagging energy.

The people of Bihar did not vote for a strong Opposition in the state Assembly, and that brings back the responsibility to the people themselves. It is a greater responsibility than the exercise of the right to vote

The Congress lost, and will continue to lose, until it admits that its grassroots muscles have withered and died across India. What now passes for the political party of our freedom movement is a bunch of sycophants

Kumar has instilled confidence in the marginalised sections of society that they are no longer merely a vote bank, but active participants in policymaking and power-sharing. This shift has given depth and durability to Kumar’s politics

The OTP is no longer the trusted guardian it once was. It’s become a routine, dull buzz in our digital lives. And this complacency is proving expensive

If Krasznahorkai is the reclusive Hungarian prophet of “apocalyptic terror”, Szalay is the Hungarian-British chronicler of rootless modernity

The fact that terrorists were holding a stock of nearly 3,000 kilograms of explosives is very disturbing. They could have created havoc across the country

The fact is that when you go as a team in a match, you have to respect everyone. As a national party, it was natural for the Congress to contest 50-60 seats

The tribal leaders and their movements serve as a constant reminder that the fight for freedom and dignity was deeply rooted in the forests and hills of the tribal areas of India