President Trump secured his headline soundbite that Saudi Arabia is ready to invest $1 trillion in the US economy, confirming his view of MbS as a modern-day Croesus. Upon closer examination, however, all Saudi investments will be tied to the Kingdom’s development goals and will not consist of long-term placements in the US

While it is sustainable thanks to long-standing connections in traditional spheres, it is also stagnant since new areas have not been clearly defined

Consulting has always found its purpose in transition. In India, where economic ambition intersects with institutional complexity, consulting will remain vital — not despite AI, but because of it

Without Disraeli, Bismarck, Churchill or FDR, capitalism may not have done as well as it has today. 'Social Democracy,' Mamdani-style, places him squarely with this select group, and not at all with Stalin

What is the film about, you wonder? Eko makes the answer to such a question difficult owing to the nature of its storytelling -- layered, languid and taking time to unravel

It has costs for the party and consequences for the polity

Emails labelled 'Season’s Greetings' are a perfect example of missives that may appear wholesome but can often be meant to deliver a (metaphorical) slap

Where does this leave the romantic non-conformist who values truth over obedience, devoutness and determined patriotism? Despondent, for sure. The liberal must take solace in Byron’s words, that those who know the most, mourn the deepest.

A visit last month to the over 250-year-old palace built by France in Puducherry for its Governor-Generals, which later served as the Raj Niwas for the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governors, was an eye-opener.

PM Modi gave a speech right after, revisiting Jawaharlal Nehru’s decision to drop two stanzas from the original Vande Mataram by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, framing it as an act of appeasement toward Muslim leaders, which, according to the PM, “sowed the seeds of the division of the nation”.

No one raised a controversy on the two-stanza national song since 1937. Why now? Parliament and the governments ought to be concerned with the pressing problems of the people in the present and on the ambitious goals of the country for the future

It is my fervent hope that Rahul Gandhi now raises many more real issues. It is not just the air of our cities that is polluted, almost everything else as well.

According to WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, steep drop in global funding, persistent care gaps and weak awareness threaten India’s promise to eliminate the disease five years ahead of the rest of the world

Judicial, digital and administrative reforms are reshaping how citizens experience vulnerability and home

Without this, we risk investing scarce resources in sectors that have a small contribution to air quality while ignoring major ones

Different typefaces carry their own political charge. Such assumptions are precisely what designers play with when they create book covers, product packaging and logos, websites and advertising or publicity campaigns

Goans who migrated under Portuguese citizenship cannot raise their voices against development policies — whether in host states or in Goa — for fear of losing their OCI cards

‘Sholay’ remains astonishing for the technical quality of its production. In the restoration, every distinguishing nuance of that amazing soundtrack hit afresh

On one level, ‘Subarnarekha’ is about the ‘refugee problem’; a recognition of how livelihoods, homes, identities, and human connections in the old country are lost and must be recreated. This is equally relevant today

The proposed Jan Vishwas Siddhant is transformational. All licences outside the four areas of national security, public safety, human health and environment will be converted to perpetual self-registration

Debate over terrorism should be free from ‘I am the victim’ versus ‘I said so’ narratives and focus on reforming religious doctrines themselves

At a time when parliamentary debate is increasingly shaped by spectacle, the former Speaker’s career offers a quiet provocation

We all hope for a memorable wedding, I just didn’t expect mine to end up as aviation folklore

If the judiciary, the final sentinel, will not exorcise caste from its reasoning, ‘Mother of Democracy’ becomes a slogan, not a destiny

While Satyajit Ray reached the pinnacle in his first venture, for Ghatak, it took six years and the experience of making three films — Nagarik, Ajantrik and Bari Theke Paliye — to create his outstanding Meghe Dhaka Tara