We need to debate not God but godmen. The fact is that the intellectual and moral quality of religious leadership is fast declining across major religions in India

That the government has kept this core element in the new rural job guarantee framework and has enhanced the guaranteed days of employment to 125 from 100 is welcome. But, transferring the burden of the scheme's funding to states and pausing employment guarantee during the peak agriculture season are not good ideas

Bangladesh has no Aam Aadmi Party to hold a Gandhian fast for peace, or a Rahul Gandhi to embrace the commoner victims. There is a lack of an institution that can embody and enforce a moderate moral conscience

Each time a middle-class Malayali dares to dream beyond their means, Vijayan from ‘Nadodikkattu’ seems to whisper, ‘Ethra manoharamaaya nadakkaatha aachaarangal (what beautiful, unrealistic dreams)’, a line that gently mocks, yet deeply empathises with, the beauty of impossible aspirations

The next round of memory politics will be played out in the political battleground of Bengal, where memories of Partition have been shaping and reshaping political narratives

The family dynamics may resemble those of any other household — arguments over money, marriage, and morality — but the consequences of those arguments are not evenly distributed

Yet, even at this historic high, a sociological discomfort remains. Of the SMAT-winning XI, only Robin Minz is an Adivasi player

The fertiliser subsidy is the second-largest item in the Union budget, next only to the food subsidy — its allocation is more than the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare allocation of Rs 1.37 lakh crore in FY26.

If Prime Minister Narendra Modi castigates Macaulay, a cacophony of voices immediately arises to defend the latter

Perhaps the most striking change is political. Countries that once viewed India through the prism of Pakistan — such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE — now see New Delhi as a long-term strategic partner

Our shared objective is clear: AI must be safe, innovative, open and inclusive

The government can consider breaking up IndiGo into two completely independent airlines as was done in the US under the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts

At a time when protestors in Delhi were demanding clean air, parliamentarians failed in sending a message for much-needed accountability in environmental governance.

Bangladesh’s increasingly close relationship with both Pakistan and China threatens India’s security in the northeast. Combined with an increase in religious extremism, a new and high-stakes form of anti-Indian politics is growing in Dhaka

The ultimate goal of VBSA is to support the development of institutions that meet international standards, while remaining rooted in Indian values and priorities. This aim is central to India’s aspiration to become a global knowledge hub.

Young women entering science today are asking whether  brilliance can be recognised without demanding silence in return. Because the quiet truth is this: the cost of excusing bad behaviour has been paid by those who left, those who endured, those whose careers stalled because someone else’s genius mattered more than their dignity.

India has made progress after the first atomic energy law.  Currently, the government-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) operates 24 nuclear reactors, with a total capacity of 8,180 megawatts of electricity.

The ban on Christmas came from a Delhi VHP official. The VHP is one of the uglier offspring of the RSS. Asked if this was not a restriction on the right that our constitution gives us to worship as we wish, he made it clear that this was not about religion but about conversion.

What started with Jawaharlal Nehru has now reached Mahatma Gandhi. The BJP’s grave wrongs will not be forgiven by the people of India

A criticism that the film demeans Indian Muslims is difficult to understand because not a single member of this specific community figures in the movie.

Indian and Korean artists have worked with each other, and many Indians have been part of K-pop groups. However, most of these experiments have either failed or have not received a breakthrough response

Water purifiers compensate for unsafe water. Air purifiers now compensate for unbreathable cities. We celebrate individual workarounds while quietly absolving institutions. Over time, survival is mistaken for innovation

A criticism is that the reform prioritises asset creation at the cost of employment. The Bill enshrines a statutory livelihood guarantee, while linking employment to the creation of productive and durable public assets

Some opposition for the sake of politics notwithstanding, the sentiment in the Valley was well captured by the MPs’ memorandum which said, ‘A Kashmiri’, besides being a human being, is ‘an Indian’

First came the fancy cafes, then the tall apartments. The isolated spots were exposed by Instagram influencers. Hordes of people descended to these “Must Visit Places”, and soon they became littered with broken beer bottles, cigarette buds, and packets of chips