The very elision of the term “grants” signals a deeper policy shift, from the realm of public revenue-financing to loan-servicing

The government has a responsibility to pass meaningful legislation, and the Opposition, a duty to offer substantive accountability. Both sides are falling short

IndiGo is symbolic of India's rise as an aviation power. Resentment against its size and dominance is unjustified

Every December now, without fail, Spotify performs its little annual ritual: Wrapped. Bright colours, cheerful graphs telling me what I listened to, how much, my listening age, and apparently, what kind of person that makes me.

When one player accounts for almost two-thirds of the passenger market and when it is often the only carrier to many airports, the shoe is firmly on IndiGo’s feet. Not the government’s, irrespective of what the DGCA may claim

Acute aloneness, the seeming impossibility to communicate with anyone outside their tremulous selves, the legitimising of online stalking have led to human beings constructing detailed paracosms.

We must ask whether the form of party politics that dominates student life in India is counterproductive. Should student bodies be formally affiliated with political parties at all?

Republicans are recalculating. Fear of a primary challenge from Trump once kept them obedient. Now their greater anxiety may be the Democrat on the election ballot

As the world observes “Universal Health Coverage Day” on December 12, I would say that governments may come and go, but stepping back from the standards of public welfare would be an injustice to the public

A $200-billion relationship hangs in the balance as both nations test political limits to revive a stalled bilateral agreement

The first Indians who went global were not merchants or monks but farmers, potters, carpenters and women who crossed oceans with nothing except hope and a thumbprint on a contract they could not read

Perhaps the most significant fact about the 'yatra' was that it comprised largely of young people.They are responding to the call for a politics of love and opposition to purveying hatred

They represent a serious rollback of workers’ rights and advance long-standing demands of industry on issues such as labour flexibility and minimising statutory obligations

For cinephiles, the challenge remains unchanged: Fighting to preserve wonder in an ecosystem that increasingly values convenience over curiosity, and metrics over magic

The drag on productivity is hiding in plain sight, in homes where millions of mothers scale back or exit work because childcare is unaffordable or inaccessible

We must ensure that our children know the stories of their land before they learn the myths of another. And we must do so in every language, English included Shashi Tharoor

At a time when social media encourages competing victimhoods by saying that only experience and identity can form the basis of morality and ethics, we lose out on the larger idea of the universal

If large AI systems operate under Indian law, if computing power grows through green infrastructure, and if citizens can access AI securely and affordably, we can leapfrog directly to the green frontier

Rabindranath Tagore's song did not invoke religious sentiments, unlike the one by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Tagore's message was of togetherness

Pakistan today is not the rival of old; it is a state negotiating with its own contradictions. Recognising that reality — and responding with firmness without agitation — is what will define mature Indian statecraft in the years ahead

As geopolitics shifts, the purpose of Regional Trade Agreements is shifting with it: From economic instruments to political safety nets. About time — after a lull of four years, an India–Russia FTA looks increasingly logical

The burden of patriarchy might make it tougher for men to speak about their mental health, and we empathise, but the consistent trauma dumping within the confines of the hearth is not something we had bargained for

With no big stars and no easy answers, Eko delivers a deeply immersive cinematic puzzle that shows why Malayalam cinema continues to captivate India

Our children need more chapters on the environment, not less. They deserve books that mirror their reality

From clashing worldviews to MAGA factionalism and an ambiguous China policy, the NSS exposes the paradoxes shaping America’s global posture