Express Opinion

US strikes on Iran signal that age of global restraint is over. We now live in a world where the fear of another’s capability is enough to justify a first strike

They mark a fraught end to years of kicking its nuclear can down the road. Much depends on what Tehran does next: Sue for peace or widen the war

This Father’s Day, I found myself thinking about my father, who recently turned 95 and is fading faster than I can accept.

Expenditure is a proxy for income and borrowing. The persons in the bottom 10% have an expenditure of Rs 50-100 per day. Ask yourself, with Rs 50-100 a day, what kind of food can a

So, on this 50th anniversary of that day that led to India becoming a dictatorship for a while, we need to think seriously about what we should all be doing to protect our democracy. It

At 6.53 am on October 19, 1988, an Indian Airlines flight (a Boeing-737) from Bombay to Ahmedabad with 135 passengers, including six crew members, crashed into a paddy field around 2.5 km from runway 23

The RSS remained at a distance from the political activities of the Hindu Mahasabha, which wanted trained swayamsevaks to work for its agenda. Hedgewar’s position upset the Mahasabha and the leaders of other Hindu organisations

Infertility isn’t only because women have poor health and hectic lifestyles; men are going through the same, minus the guilt. Men are always assumed to be virile, and women are automatically assumed to be infertile

I urge everyone to join the International Day of Yoga 2025 celebrations and take this opportunity to embrace yoga as a part of daily life

At least seven people, including a member of Parliament, were killed and over 20 injured in five bomb explosions which rocked the Nepalese capital.

It’s not the only flavour on the brink

The nation must recommit to the constitutional principles of freedom, equality and fraternity

MSPs have no meaning, unless accompanied by physical procurement as with rice and wheat

To be sure, Delhi cannot control who Trump chooses to engage, and for what reasons. For India, the question is less why the Munir-Trump meeting, and more about how to ensure that the red lines

Cramped living conditions, shared spaces, and unreliable internet, make remote work unattractive or even unfeasible, for many urban dwellers. For mothers, the chance to work remotely may reflect not freedom of choice but hard necessity

Cities barely figured, either in life or the imagination. Even when they rudely shoved their way into my life by way of the exigencies of work, they remained peripheral to my thought. My experience of

Notwithstanding the riches of India’s heritage, it would be historically inaccurate to think that one could find there a grammar for universal franchise, popular sovereignty, and justiciable fundamental rights, those distinctive features of our Constitution

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The violence and stand-off sowed mistrust that continues to cast a shadow over the bilateral relationship

Thanks to Missiles, Artificial Intelligence and Drones (MAID), small nations and non-state actors can now pose credible threats to major powers using relatively inexpensive technology

The Court has made it clear that the Centre must show restraint while punishing states for irregularities in schemes. Governments should read its larger message against weaponising schemes

Coverage of Meghalaya honeymoon case, Modi government’s attitude to Northeast is proof of continuing discrimination

Dis/Agree is a weekly column which offers not this-versus-that, but the best of both sides, to inform the debate.

AC temperature cap, while not a game-changer, opens the door to much-needed conversations on an urgent developmental need

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on June 20, 1985.