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Gymkhana Club debate misses the point. Redevelopment is now a necessity for climate resilience, green spaces, and liveability.
Long-term capital gains on equity are taxed at 12.5 % and short-term at 15 % provided the transactions are done through stock exchanges on which...
The Code's effects on employment and productivity depend less on its provisions than on how mandates interact with firm size, labour market structure,...
Often termed the ‘Jihadi drug’, Captagon is frequently used by militants to enhance combat endurance and suppress fear.
The old Virat Kohli would have attacked the contest with visible ferocity. The Kohli of today is a more complete and possibly a more dangerous...
The distinction often overlooked in headline figures is what we economists call the difference between growth and structural transformation.
The teenagers fighting India's education system have learned an important lesson early and will not all wait around to be failed twice. The sharpest...
India’s financial system stands at an inflexion point. The expansion has created opportunities, but financial deepening cannot be sustained unless...
The Dravidian movement's parent organisation gave birth to several offshoots—DK, DMK, AIADMK, MDMK, DMDK, and AMMK. The political developments of...
Our obsession with bargaining robs us of something called self-respect. We are prepared to make a spectacle of ourselves.
During her 60 years of research and writing, Romila Thapar has contributed to the comprehension of history as an intellectual adventure, by bringing...
Indians are arrogant, but far from rich. That’s why we have become the world’s least welcome visitors. People may tolerate a rich fool. But nobody...
Viewed individually, each such intervention may appear to be a technical measure. Viewed together, they create four distinct and serious problems.
The failures to replace the fleet have left a massive capability gap, forcing the military to continue operating sub-optimal, high-risk assets in the...
Years of dwindling assembly hours and bureaucratic echo chambers cost Mamata Banerjee the state, opening the gates for a new BJP regime.
To hit aggressive $2 trillion trade targets, India needs to dismantle outdated trade councils and trust raw market competition.
Retired school principal, Anu Mathur, shared pictures of an unusual phenomenon on her birding Whatsapp group. It has flummoxed birders and scientists...
The primary revelation of the Commonwealth Prize debacle is not that AI-generated writing is finally good—but that institutions that set the...
The chances of a communist marrying a capitalist are higher than a god-fearing person successfully dating someone who winces every time they hear,...
Other than some cosmetic changes on the outside, like a new nose and connected headlights, the new Honda City is the same fifth-generation car that...
On 10 January 1968, Dr Zakir Husain delivered an address at the inauguration of the International Inter-Religious Symposium on Peace in New Delhi,...
Twenty-one TPSJ interns produced over 100 stories at ThePrint. Here's what they learned about reporting, rewriting, newsroom culture and journalism...
Marco Rubio’s India visit left a lingering sense of disappointment over the Quad. The grouping is no longer the centrepiece of the US...
England has finally realised that to win a match, a team is more necessary than star players whose egos clashed with each other on the field.
Anyone familiar with Siddaramaiah’s political career knows that he does not react well to orders that threaten his power or legacy.
President Hlaing is set to visit Bodh Gaya, hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, participate in a business forum, and visit...
India has more than 1,300 civilian and state-operated aircraft. NEET paper distribution should not require diverting scarce IAF assets from their...
Hindi cinema is happy to celebrate the scale of its productions, but that scale is built on people whose names never appear in headlines and whose...
If the Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers do even one-tenth of the sermonizing to their own colleagues in the ministries as they do to the people,...
You can dismiss the bottomless teapot as a symptom of the meme economy. Everything is content, and everyone wants their share of the pie. But it comes...
Congress leader DK Shivakumar is patient, transactional, fiercely loyal, administratively ambitious, and unafraid of power. Is Karnataka ready for the...
For the first time, a sitting government is publicly scoring its ministries on how fast they clear files, respond to Cabinet notes, and resolve...
The real question is not whether India needs a UCC. The question is: what kind of UCC does India want to build?
Several Arab states normalised relations with Israel without facing major domestic opposition while preserving their political identity. But Pakistan...
The logic of 18 years is linked to marriage, and its telos remains that legitimate sex means only reproduction, whereas it conceptually attempts to...
The Falta bypoll result has brought the Left back into conversation. After BJP candidate Debangshu Panda, CPM-backed candidate Shambhu Nath Kurmi came...
Lucky Aunty from Hulu's Deli Boys is not a respectable aunty upgraded with naughty one-liners. She is a South Asian crime boss in her 50s
There is a need to devise innovative, unconventional mechanisms that encourage people to refrain from buying physical gold.
The fact remains that the VOC did not introduce debt bondage or human trafficking to the Coromandel Coast. It expanded and exploited existing systems.
India’s market regulators have spent 30 years building institutional confidence in exchange infrastructure. It rests on one expectation: If a trade...
Donald Trump’s desire for Pakistan and other Muslim countries to align themselves with the Abraham Accords has put Islamabad in an unusually fraught...
The NEET paper leaks and the ongoing loss of public confidence in the CBSE exam results show that someone is either sleeping on the watch or not very...
A recent viral video from ‘Chand Mera Dil’ featured Ananya Panday performing a fusion of Bharatnatyam with hip-hop and locking. Social media...
CJP and OJP show that Indian youth are not politically apathetic. Sometimes they speak not through manifestos, but through memes. That should worry...
History often arrives draped in marble, poetry, and romance, while concealing its scars beneath silk. Monuments may dazzle the eyes, but chronicles...
It is in India’s interests to seek to improve ties and prevent outside powers from being able to build anti-India constituencies inside Bangladesh.
TVK's pragmatic centrism, founded on coalition and compromise and favouring wide appeal over rigid doctrinal purity, has got Vijay where he is. This...
There is a photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru that almost everyone in India has seen, even if they couldn’t tell you where or when it was taken — the...
The Delhi Gymkhana Club may symbolise old Lutyens privilege, but the Modi government’s real legacy is unprecedented concentration of wealth, crony...
Chinese commentators saw Marco Rubio’s India visit as more than diplomacy — linking it to Quad revival, Indo-Pacific strategy, US-China rivalry...