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India’s vape ban was meant to keep e-cigarettes out of reach of youth. Yet recent arrests in Hyderabad show that these products are still reaching...
Benjamin Franklin in 1789 had famously said that nothing in this world is certain except death and taxes. Unfortunately, after 250 years, while death...
“What I want you to understand is the message of Asia. It is not to be learnt through the Western spectacles or by imitating the atom bomb. If you...
Maharashtra’s new anti-conversion law raises a question considerably larger than whether the State should prevent people from being coerced into...
The crisis facing journalism is often described as a crisis of business, technology or public trust. It is all three. But beneath them lies a more...
Mahatma Gandhi’ s contribution to India was not confined to winning freedom from colonial rule. He also left behind a powerful social and economic...
India’s forex (foreign exchange) reserves have always oscillated between tolerable and uncomfortable. After 1976-77 India’s foreign trade...
The Indian Police action in Hyderabad was still underway in September 1948 and the Nizam’s Government had yet not surrendered. In the midst of all...
Nepal has done something important at the United Nations: it has tried to turn a natural disaster into a political argument about the unequal costs of...
India has been given a number that should command attention: as many as 15,800 additional heat-related deaths could occur between September 2026 and...
India stands at a threshold that no generation before us has faced. We are the youngest large nation on earth, and we are entering an age where...
When monsoon pours down across India, many of the country’s citizens, across its large metropolises, confront a re-occurring predicament. Delhi,...
The Indian police action in the Princely State of Hyderabad commenced on 13 September 1948 and ended within five days with the resignation of the...
India’s renewable-energy story is beginning to expose an uncomfortable truth: producing clean electricity is only half the transition. The other...
Indian cinema has long had a curious blind spot. A country celebrated for its extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity has nevertheless allowed...
For years, Pakistan has attempted to turn the language of human rights into an instrument of foreign policy, presenting itself internationally as a...
The widespread misconception that the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) “intervention” (selling dollars), in India’s inter-bank “foreign...
In our multipolar world, cinema has become a critical component of soft power, shaping global perceptions through its captivating narratives. Movies...
The War of the Worlds (1898), the much-acclaimed novel of the prescient author HG Wells, portrays a conflict between humankind and Martians as a...
Nearly three decades after Princess Diana’s death, the British monarchy remains confronted by the emotional and institutional consequences of a...
The Trump-Xi summit has demonstrated an important distinction in great-power diplomacy: reducing tension is not the same as resolving conflict....
The South Asia Terrorism Portal mentions that in 2025 Pakistan suffered 1,077 terrorist-related incidents losing the lives of 655 civilians and 1,229...
When did devotion become something we could consume? Devotion is, at its essence, an inward journey – a path to inner purity, a deeply personal...
The resurgence of El Niño conditions coupled with record-breaking heatwaves, extreme rainfall, and recurring floods have underscored a new reality...
Our understanding of success also needs reconsideration. A person may earn a large income and yet experience a life impoverished by broken...
Some of the most important relationships in life begin before we have any knowledge of them. That unsettling truth lies at the heart of the remarkable...
The reopening of Disha Salian’s death case is a test of whether India’s investigative institutions can revisit a deeply contested conclusion...
There is a beautiful saying, “ वृक्ष कबहुँ न फल भखै, नदी न संचै नीर। परमारथ...
Much of my professional career has focused on examining institutions, public systems, and the intersection of policy, enforcement, and accountability....
Education is among the most powerful institutions through which a civilisation transmits its knowledge, values, aspirations and understanding of life...
An Election Commission does not derive its authority merely from the power to conduct elections. Its legitimacy rests on a more delicate foundation:...
The significance of the Cockroach Janta Party may ultimately lie less in the government concessions it has extracted than in the expectations it has...
A person sits down to read an article on a smartphone. Before the first paragraph is finished, a notification appears. A message is checked. One...
The most demanding test of India’s leadership of the Global South begins after the visiting delegations leave. Following the BRICS summit in New...
One Earth, One Family, One Future. India said three of the words at the G20. The fourth is the one that holds the other three up. On zoonoses,...
India’s financial markets are approaching a significant institutional milestone. The public listing of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) offers...
India’s expanding hospital infrastructure presents a paradox that policymakers can no longer afford to ignore. More hospitals, better diagnostic...
Working capital has again come into focus for Indian businesses. The July manufacturing PMI, released in early August, showed Indian manufacturers...
The 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi will be judged by whether its promises survive the return of leaders to their capitals. For India, the summit was...
Point a state-of-the-art language model at the names of the Northeast ~ Khasi surnames, Garo festivals, the titles a clan carries ~ and ask it to...
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