At 80, the UN has no right to ceremony without service. Its audit is not about the speeches by 150 leaders, but about whether the UN can keep relief corridors open in war, mobilise resources before disaster, and offer legitimacy where power alone cannot.

In a different time, perhaps, the boy who snuck into the wheel well of a plane flying from Kabul to Delhi could have been another Ibn Batuta or Marco Polo.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 24, 1985.

Every state, whatever its legal format, is becoming a surveillance state. What Beijing does blatantly, New Delhi, Washington and so many other so-called ‘liberal democracies’ do surreptitiously.

Friendships can’t be enforced, but a certain civility is mandatory on the field. Umpires must be empowered to act immediately at the first sign of offence

It’s the latest in a series of measures that could make the world more vulnerable and dent the credibility of American science

The involvement of the state in waqf administration should, in itself, not be a reason for anxiety. Several Muslim nations – such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Bangladesh and Turkey – waqf properties are generally regulated by the institutions set up by the government.

Assertion of caste by upper caste individuals or groups might, intentionally or otherwise, intimidate marginalised castes. For the latter, in contrast, public displays of identity – especially in political contexts -- are a way to counter historical injustices.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 23, 1985.

An actor’s trajectory is often defined by the tension between two attributes — popularity and artistry — often seen as being inversely proportional to each other. To see this as the shibboleth that it is, all one needs to do is go through Mohanlal’s five-decade-long filmography

The real question is not simply whether the US or China will dominate the UN, but whether middle powers like India can help craft a multilateralism fit for an age of rivalry and rapid change

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interpretation of Swadeshi -- no matter from which country the company comes from or even if the product has a foreign name, it should be manufactured in India -- sends quite the right signal.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 22, 1985.

India's IT sector leaders have formidable talent; they need to look beyond their cost-plus, labour arbitrage mode

But the pact should still prompt reflection on India’s reluctance to extend security support to partners in the Gulf.

The road ahead is clear enough. Though travelling down that road will be even more difficult than the road of economic reforms in the 1990s

Court calling for prior restraint, government’s takedown order, both undermine free press

And that writing off Neeraj Chopra would be premature

What is needed is clear-eyed scrutiny, when challenge is climate change, not engineering rivers

Since US tariffs are a big reason, possibly the biggest one, for the slide in the value of the rupee, Nageswaran’s statement provides hope

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 19, 1985.

By resigning, Jerry Greenfield has highlighted that in the face of injustice, companies and people, always have a choice

It will have its task cut out for itself as Trump continues to attack its independence

While Delhi must maintain a productive relationship with Moscow, it also needs to balance its ties with Brussels and Moscow. The rapidly rising stakes in India's relationship with the European Union require such a recalibration