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![]() Pratap Bhanu MehtaIndian Express |
Perhaps the starting point for thinking about governance is to not begin with a list of schemes, but the contradictions that Delhi must manage.
These are not predictions; it would be presumptuous to claim omniscience or even foresight. But here are five trends more in the realm of how the...
India's 2024 verdict told both Government and Opposition to reset, rethink. Hopefully, that will happen in 2025.
SpaDeX's success will place India in an elite group of nations with space docking capacity, which currently includes only the US, Russia and China.
Technology and its bros may promise placid perfection. But people must make their own New Year resolutions
Manmohan Singh secured developmental space for India and positioned India brilliantly. It is capital that we are still living off.
Manmohan Singh secured developmental space for India and positioned India brilliantly. It is capital that we are still living off.
Chilling can be hard work, as the creator of the Chill Guy meme has recently demonstrated
Ironically, in a deep ideological sense, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh are once again joined at the hip
Supreme Court justices demitting office are often subject to a legal scorecard. Assessments go through their rulings and catalogue the good, the...
The American electorate has, decisively, chosen to trust their destiny in the hands of Donald Trump. From being written off after January 6, 2020,...
When Bibek Debroy resigned from the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies and PHDCCI, the Centre for Policy Research smelled an...
Haryana is a small state. But the BJP’s historic victory, for a third term, has significant consequences nationally. For one thing, this election is...
The international system’s licence to Israel to act with impunity in Gaza, and now Lebanon, will come back to haunt it. Israel has a right to...
The rape and murder of a young doctor who was working at Kolkata’s R G Kar Hospital, on August 9, overshadowed this Independence Day. Several...
August 14 was a long night. A night of protests, marches, of women demanding “freedom” as they ushered in Independence Day. Thousands of them —-...
India is once again raging against a brutal rape and murder, this time of a 31-year-old PG resident doctor in Kolkata. Protests have erupted in...
Within 15 months of its nuclear tests – Pokhran II — India was ready with a draft nuclear doctrine. On August 17, 1999, K Subrahmanyam, convenor of...
It is an obvious fact that caste is still the oppressive social reality of India. Despite far-reaching changes in our economy, politics and...
The horrific attempt to assassinate Donald Trump will turbocharge the polarisation of American politics. The security lapses are already grist for...