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Siya, Twisha & the wages of society’s focus on marriage

At first glance, the two women who have occupied India’s headlines, energy and imagination for the last few weeks are mirror images of each...

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Barkha Dutt

Sanae Takaichi’s visit heralds a new India-Japan era

Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Sanae Takaichi’s visit to India for the 16th India-Japan Bilateral Summit on July 1-3 took place at a consequential...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

India must ride the next AI wave, not chase past ones

While India debates — duly impassioned by China’s recent AI strides — spending billions on building its own foundation model, a company that has...

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Vivek Wadhwa

Don’t allow Israel to ‘pinkwash’ genocide

If you are a sceptic when it comes to the efficacy of soft power, watch what Israel is doing. Acutely aware that it is being isolated on the global...

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Chintan Girish Modi

The data questions the Meta-CRED deal raises

Meta’s $900-million investment in Indian fintech platform, CRED, comes with an important assurance: Meta will not gain access to CRED users’...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

India's next pharmaceutical revolution

Last month, an Indian pharmaceutical company accomplished something unprecedented. Wockhardt became the first Indian pharmaceutical company to win...

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Ramanan Laxminarayan

The collegium system is flawed but necessary

Recently, the Supreme Court collegium recommended multiple elevations to the Court, taking it closer to its now sanctioned strength of 38. At the same...

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Insiyah Vahanvaty

Understanding the changing strategic logic of the Indo-Pacific

Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Seychelles underscores the growing centrality of the Indian Ocean to India’s strategic...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Borrowing to survive, as wages fail to rise; the working class walks a tightrope

If you look closely at India’s macroeconomic indicators — such as the growth rate, inflation numbers, etc., — they project a story of robust...

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Deepanshu Mohan

Terms of Trade | A fine imbalance

Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, in this fiction philistine’s view, is one of the best English language novels on independent India written for...

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Roshan Kishore

Strait of Hormuz crisis underlined India’s energy resilience

When the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed following military strikes on Iran earlier this year, the implications for India were immediate and...

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Amitabh Kant

Who is ‘Honourable’ in the Indian republic? High Court order sparks a question

A recent order of the Allahabad High Court, arising from a criminal writ petition, ventured into an unexpected question: Who is “entitled” to be...

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Sumit Baudh

India’s role in fostering convergence within G7

This year’s G7 Leaders’ Summit under the French Presidency had many reasons to go wrong. With multiple conflicts, disrupted maritime trade routes,...

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Thierry Mathou

Not just an economic issue: Labour codes must adjust society’s moral compass

After decades of contentious debates and false starts, labour-law reforms have finally entered the decisive implementation phase. The four codes —...

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Harsh Sharma

The Economist’s India column, ‘Ashoka', is condescending

In May 2026, The Economist launched “Ashoka”, a column dedicated to India. It’s a rare distinction: Only a handful of countries have named...

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Hindustantimes Editorial

Climate action needs cash. Where is it?

The conclusion of the Bonn Climate Conference has left developing countries confronting a familiar reality: Climate finance remains the most important...

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Ria Sinha

The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: The culture of queuing up outside a restaurant

How long would you queue up at a restaurant for? Would you stand outside the door for 45 minutes till they let you in? A whole hour? I guess it...

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Vir Sanghvi

Why didn’t she just say no?

Maybe she didn’t want to ‘shame’ her parents by running off with a man from another caste instead of the one they had picked for her—according...

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Namita Bhandare

A do-or-die moment for regional parties

The beauty of India’s democracy is that it always moves from one election to the other, as if it is a relay race. For the BJP, the heady feeling of...

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Shashi Shekhar

Play. It prepares us for learning and life

There are familiar sounds that echo across every childhood — the thud of a ball on dusty grounds, the laughter of children racing through narrow...

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Sachin Tendulkar

Resting at Stonewall Inn on the path to LGBT rights

Like the song that goes, “If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair,” I often tell my friends, half-jokingly,...

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Hasan Mujtaba