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Mamata Banerjee’s words threw her opponents into visible panic. BJP worthies erupted in shrill outrage about Mamata’s failure to ‘respect the...
With his friends MK Stalin and Mamata Banerjee voted out, Akhilesh will have to do far more than his usual ‘Muslim plus Yadav’ formula politics.
This shampoo commercial is different from slow-motion hair flips and a doctor suggesting the brand to fight dandruff. It’s all about Panday’s...
Can India afford the disruption in its energy supplies? The answer lies not only in diversification but also in reducing external dependence.
It takes two hands to clap–High time Muslims engage with Hindus.
It takes two hands to clap–High time Muslims engage with Hindus.
The EAC-PM and a new-look NITI Aayog can supplement the efforts of the RBI and the finance ministry in improving our understanding of the Indian...
China has been using Pakistan as a proxy in the regional balance against India, with Pakistani narratives also amplified in the aftermath of Operation...
The unexpected nature and scale of Vijay’s victory has left not just political observers but even sections within the TVK in a daze.
New Delhi: Abhishek Banerjee could be heard everywhere in the weeks before the West Bengal Assembly election. The TMC honcho and Mamata Banerjee’s...
For all her promises, Mamata Banerjee soon turned into one more pedestrian politician. Ruthless and disingenuous. Anyone was better than Didi. Even...
Free bus services should help shift commuters away from private vehicles, strengthen public transport systems, and improve urban livability.
ECI ensured a level playing field for all the parties in West Bengal, unlike earlier, when different stages of the polling process were subverted by...
Young Bengalis are tired of 'culturally superior' Bengal. They want economic development.
The UAE’s decision alters oil’s future trajectory. Rather than a gradual decline dictated by scarcity, there may be a phase of heightened...
'Bengal is caste-less' is a hegemonic notion peddled by the Bhadralok. It swept the crucial question of Dalit struggle, first under the red carpet and...
The UAE’s decision alters oil’s future trajectory. Rather than a gradual decline dictated by scarcity, there may be a phase of heightened...
Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts is hosting Growing Up in Mário’s World—a month-long exhibition of a hundred original works from a private...
If elections change so many state governments – West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu – it means that India’s electoral democracy remains quite...
The might of the state has won through the SAMADHAN strategy, but now it must do what is right.
Those raging at the Congress for ‘opposing’ national security should realise that Congress governments built much of the defence infrastructure in...
Mamata Banerjee built a politics of presence for women. But when it came to principle, that presence often rang hollow.
In a state where one of the two dominant Dravidian parties, the DMK and the AIADMK, has been in power since 1967, the TVK’s focus on change found...
At some stage, Modi will have to decide what the BJP stands for. Does it only stand for governance in Delhi? And does it need to depend on religious...
With the BJP’s illegal Bangladeshi immigrants narrative, a distinctly Left state that had for long mostly kept the Hindu-Muslim binary out of poll...
Tamil voters are not naive; rather, they engage in a form of political storytelling that blends aspiration with identity. Hero worship has its own...
The Indian voter rarely announces a change in advance. She absorbs the noise, registers the signals, appears persuaded—and then, in the privacy of...
After nearly 40 years, there is an attempt to align India’s labour ecosystem with the realities of a modern, formalising economy.
AI can help create multilingual workforces. English isn't India’s destiny.
The upgradation of the CSC has an impact on all countries in the Indian Ocean, but for India, it serves multiple strategic functions that other...
Expectations need recalibration. Students equate degrees with employability, employers expect instant productivity, policymakers push curriculum...
The mega Great Nicobar Development Project has invited sustained opposition from the Congress party. It should instead look to the statesmanship of...
Your skin is panicking and overproducing oil like it’s a job. Time to stage an intervention and restore that hydrated, dewy glow.
When she is ready to lay her eggs, the female quickly tips them into the nest of other birds and leaves. Forever. That is the only engagement Asian...
There are underlying issues regarding chargers and charging installations in all high-rise societies across India, from Worli to Indiranagar and...
On 27 January 2001, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee delivered a speech at the inauguration of the International Press Institute Congress in New Delhi,...
The professional man, the businessman in a free economy, the landed peasant, the artisan and the self-employed man stand on their own legs and can...
'Religious freedom' that forces the individual to choose between ideas that are essentially non-binary in nature is not religious freedom at all.
To be cringe is not to be free, actually. Social media is a panopticon of judgement, and one wrong caption can cost you many thousands in aura points.
If this deployment was a central overreach or a necessary intervention will remain politically contested.
The sequel attempts to humanise ‘the devil’, and surprisingly, it works. Miranda’s emotional exchange with Nigel is the sequel’s most earned moment.
UAE has deep ties with US even as its financial centres help Russia evade sanctions, and it partners with Turkey despite Ankara’s tilt toward Saudi...
While the 2023 Reservation Bill promises more seats, data reveals a stark 'voice gap' where Congress women are silenced and BJP women are amplified.
Congress ‘worthies’ who earned the dubious distinction of coining ‘Hindu/Saffron Terror’ have egg on their faces now after the Malegaon case...
Britain’s failure to secure the oil of Arabia in the 1950s was no misjudgement. The sun was setting on the Empire, and a new hegemon had emerged. Is...
India’s workforce continues to exhibit disproportionate concentration in agriculture and self-employment, and limited expansion in salaried work.
Between a 'mild' chicken tikka and the cinematic lanes of Edinburgh, a blueprint for saving Jaipur's UNESCO World Heritage status can be found.
In 1960, sovereignty meant entering the oil club. In 2026, for the UAE, it means stepping beyond OPEC.
This is the latest phase in the US-China technology competition, which now spans supply chain law, export controls, labour compliance, and...
New Delhi: The outsourcing industry, India’s largest white-collar employer, is a juggernaut that has all but stopped moving. The dollar revenue at...