Express Opinion

The Supreme Court's motivation to balance public safety and animal welfare cannot be faulted. The pathway to hell, however, is often paved with good intentions, and we point to three serious risks that could follow

The past fascination with Fidel Castro or Che Guevara produced more posters and T-shirts than purposeful policies. As South America enters a new political phase — shaped by deep internal churn and restructured great power

Courts cannot cede their constitutional obligation to protect personal liberty, particularly when delayed trials hand the executive an undue advantage, and the political character of incarceration is evident

India already faces a perception problem in its neighbourhood. Its language may be measured but its actions are frequently viewed as heavy-handed when dealing with smaller neighbours

What platforms offer is not emancipatory visibility but a regime of operational visibility oriented entirely toward capital. Labour is tracked, timed, rated, and priced with unprecedented precision while remaining politically invisible and structurally voiceless

The GWT was signed for 30 years and is going to expire in December 2026. However, it can be renewed “on the basis of mutual consent”

If Xi decides to view a Taiwanese president as dangerous to Chinese interests, could he not then cite the Trump administration’s security doctrine to initiate military operations in what he sees as his own backyard?

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 5, 1986.

Separate distortions and transgressions rest on a bed of entangled themes — the vigilante is empowered, governance resists accountability, law is used to bend the rule of law, democracy is undermined using the tool-kit of

If ‘narco-terrorism’ can justify bombs and the snatching of a head of state, the line between policing and war collapses — and precedents like that don’t stay in Venezuela

Late-night parliamentary sittings have a long history, with the most famous being the midnight session of August 14-15, 1947, when India marked its Independence.

We need an Opposition party that would speak up on these issues, and on the consistent and brutal attack on India’s pluralist legacy by thugs who owe allegiance to the Sangh Parivar.

The main culprits are the State, the leaders in pivotal positions, and some organisations that have been emboldened due to the patronage of the State.

A woman doesn’t truly discover herself when life finally gives her permission. She discovers herself the moment she stops waiting for it.

Such gestures matter, especially now, because they affirm a profound truth: Compassion is not weakness, solidarity does not demand agreement, and dignity cannot depend on verdicts

They should force us to confront the wider era we inhabit, where multiple powers, convinced of their civilisational missions, reach beyond their limits and discover that the world is not clay

Munda’s legacy refuses closure. It survives not only in statues or stadium names, but in everyday idioms of resistance and pride. It lives on the hockey fields of Jharkhand, where Adivasi youth continue to transform

At the close of 2025, the ‘karyakartas’ of the Hindu Raksha Dal — an outfit that is not banned, but whose members face several criminal charges — were the stars of a viral video. In

Today, universities have drifted from their core mandate, and the faculty are called upon by the state and regulators to play roles for which they were never trained

If India wants to be relevant in the emerging geopolitics, it has to be a player in the emerging geo-economics

The tragedy of India’s “dog problem” isn’t a lack of law. It’s a failure to apply it. The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules already lay down a clear, evidence-based national protocol: Capture-sterilise-vaccinate-release

The Election Commission of India, which too is at the receiving end of the propaganda, has the responsibility to deliver on this front in 2026

Two wholesale reforms are important. The first is transitioning to a nationwide market-based economic dispatch system. The second is integrating captive power plants into wholesale markets

Piqued by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi signalling support for Taiwan in the event of Chinese military action, Beijing has banned the import of seafood from Japan

States that invent frameworks shape what others can imagine as options. Consider George Kennan’s “containment”, Joseph Nye’s “soft power”, or Albert Hirschman’s ideas on development