Express Opinion

This Bill must be comprehensively rejected. MGNREGA has had many problems, but it has served rural India well and served India extremely well in times of economic distress. Much could have been strengthened within its

It’s been six years since Delhi police stormed the university. For the injured students, it’s been a long wait for justice

Standing at the Nova Festival Massacre Site, I could not help but draw a parallel to the Pahalgam attack. As fellow victims of terrorism, India has much to learn from Israel

From Australia to India, terrorism’s most lasting damage lies in the normalisation of fear in ordinary life

India’s future advantage lies in planning. Truth told quickly and effectively is stronger than propaganda told loudly

Fifty years on, the restored climax forces a reckoning with the film’s feudal ethics and Emergency-era politics

The recent move by the DU administration to monitor the kind of conferences or seminars the professors are attending, or the papers they are presenting, has further intensified the fear of surveillance

Remember: You won’t always know what you’re doing, but you will always know who you are. And that is what will raise your boys

New data from the World Inequality Lab and India’s Access (In)Equality Index reveal a structural crisis — rising elite wealth, a hollowed-out middle class, and stalled investment in human capability

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 15, 1985.

It has costs for the party and consequences for the polity

Emails labelled 'Season’s Greetings' are a perfect example of missives that may appear wholesome but can often be meant to deliver a (metaphorical) slap

Where does this leave the romantic non-conformist who values truth over obedience, devoutness and determined patriotism? Despondent, for sure. The liberal must take solace in Byron’s words, that those who know the most, mourn the

A visit last month to the over 250-year-old palace built by France in Puducherry for its Governor-Generals, which later served as the Raj Niwas for the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governors, was an eye-opener.

PM Modi gave a speech right after, revisiting Jawaharlal Nehru’s decision to drop two stanzas from the original Vande Mataram by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, framing it as an act of appeasement toward Muslim leaders, which,

No one raised a controversy on the two-stanza national song since 1937. Why now? Parliament and the governments ought to be concerned with the pressing problems of the people in the present and on the

It is my fervent hope that Rahul Gandhi now raises many more real issues. It is not just the air of our cities that is polluted, almost everything else as well.

According to WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, steep drop in global funding, persistent care gaps and weak awareness threaten India’s promise to eliminate the disease five years ahead of the rest of the world

Judicial, digital and administrative reforms are reshaping how citizens experience vulnerability and home

Without this, we risk investing scarce resources in sectors that have a small contribution to air quality while ignoring major ones

Different typefaces carry their own political charge. Such assumptions are precisely what designers play with when they create book covers, product packaging and logos, websites and advertising or publicity campaigns

Goans who migrated under Portuguese citizenship cannot raise their voices against development policies — whether in host states or in Goa — for fear of losing their OCI cards

‘Sholay’ remains astonishing for the technical quality of its production. In the restoration, every distinguishing nuance of that amazing soundtrack hit afresh

On one level, ‘Subarnarekha’ is about the ‘refugee problem’; a recognition of how livelihoods, homes, identities, and human connections in the old country are lost and must be recreated. This is equally relevant today

In this backdrop, the impeachment motion does not just set a disquieting precedent. It is also a case of the DMK shooting itself in the foot.