Express Opinion

From the apex court's scrutiny to rising human-wildlife conflict and FRA enforcement, India’s forest districts face an urgent governance reset

Conventional wisdom suggests that popular leaders exhaust their reform capacity early. By the twelfth year, if at all they last this long, governments typically turn defensive or run out of ideas as the popularity wanes

Trump’s evolving worldview marks a seismic shift in South Asia’s balance of power. A less focused and more distracted America would dilute the pressure on South Asia regarding nuclear proliferation and crisis control. In such

Shaped by a complex crisis of human demographic choices, conservation successes and ecological distress, the rising number of leopard and bear attacks has made life increasingly difficult in the mountains

Imagine if each PM 2.5 spike demanded a ministerial statement the way a central-state fund release does. That would be politics worthy of India’s second-most-polluted metro

Casual slurs, institutional silence, and social indifference in classrooms, streets, and homes make them die bit-by-bit until they learn to be silent and live with it

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 30, 1985.

India has long grappled with GDP expansion that fails to generate commensurate employment. The US experience suggests this is not merely a developing-country affliction

The IPC does have provisions for hate crimes committed against an SC/ST individual, but there is no safeguard in place for people bracketed in other categories. It ignores the diverse population of the Northeast

POCSO’s objective is not merely to punish sexual offences but to recognise and respond to aggravated forms of abuse. The aggravation lies not in formal designation but in the capacity to intimidate, silence, or manipulate

The French icon made women’s desire visible and casual in an era of repression, and for that she remains a cultural landmark. But autonomy without solidarity is a dead end

This matter also highlights a fundamental challenge in Indian environmental governance of translating ecological realities into justiciable legal standards

The new framework recognises a fundamental truth: In 2025, denying military personnel access to information would be both impractical and counterproductive to developing contemporary military leaders

He used humour with rare intelligence to hold up a mirror to the educated Malayali and his hypocrisies

The court stops short of reiterating that all couples, irrespective of caste, religion and creed, enjoy such constitutional freedoms

Long before bans and warning labels, we chose to stay offline — and now I’m learning to trust that choice

Anyone who has signed a hospital consent form knows that it is quite often an exercise in blind faith rather than informed choice. The DPDP Act forces transparency into such a system.

The growing politicisation of funding decisions further undermines the credibility of the proposed framework.

We expect GDP growth of 6.7 per cent and inflation at 5 per cent, largely driven by the low base effect, in fiscal 2027

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 29, 1985.

For the GST rates on air purifiers to be lowered, neither the Centre alone, nor only the states — and certainly not the courts — can decide

The irony is that markets are trying to do a desirable job that policy makers have themselves been unable or unwilling to (a rupee depreciation is effectively a subsidy to exporters).

The High Court’s strict textual reading sits uneasily with the spirit of a law that was designed to protect the most vulnerable.

He means well when he talks of organisational decentralisation; a recurring theme that remains largely unaddressed despite some synthetic steps taken of late. Congress needs a serious reboot

We were shell-shocked when Trump unilaterally slapped 25% tariffs on Indian goods, later upped to 50%. Our foreign office appeared to have little inkling of Hurricane Trump hitting our shores. But signs were evident in