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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...
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...
While India debates — duly impassioned by China’s recent AI strides — spending billions on building its own foundation model, a company that has...
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...
Meta’s $900-million investment in Indian fintech platform, CRED, comes with an important assurance: Meta will not gain access to CRED users’...
Last month, an Indian pharmaceutical company accomplished something unprecedented. Wockhardt became the first Indian pharmaceutical company to win...
Recently, the Supreme Court collegium recommended multiple elevations to the Court, taking it closer to its now sanctioned strength of 38. At the same...
Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Seychelles underscores the growing centrality of the Indian Ocean to India’s strategic...
If you look closely at India’s macroeconomic indicators — such as the growth rate, inflation numbers, etc., — they project a story of robust...
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...
When the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed following military strikes on Iran earlier this year, the implications for India were immediate and...
A recent order of the Allahabad High Court, arising from a criminal writ petition, ventured into an unexpected question: Who is “entitled” to be...
This year’s G7 Leaders’ Summit under the French Presidency had many reasons to go wrong. With multiple conflicts, disrupted maritime trade routes,...
After decades of contentious debates and false starts, labour-law reforms have finally entered the decisive implementation phase. The four codes —...
In May 2026, The Economist launched “Ashoka”, a column dedicated to India. It’s a rare distinction: Only a handful of countries have named...
The conclusion of the Bonn Climate Conference has left developing countries confronting a familiar reality: Climate finance remains the most important...
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...
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...
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...
There are familiar sounds that echo across every childhood — the thud of a ball on dusty grounds, the laughter of children racing through narrow...
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,...