While progress has been faster than what was envisaged by the Finance Commission, the path of fiscal consolidation must continue to be adhered to

His masterpiece, 'After Virtue', published in 1981, anticipates many of the pathologies of modern political life.

A thaw in US-Russia relations tends to widen India’s geopolitical space. Yet Delhi faces an immediate challenge: Trump’s threat of secondary tariffs on Indian purchases of Russian oil

The way we spend time beyond duty is deeply personal — and should remain so. Leisure, when free from scrutiny, is not an innate right, but something hard-won, often claimed with resistance.

Given the crude birth rate of Bihar, the number of persons who had, since the elections to the Lok Sabha in 2024, attained the age of 18 would certainly run into a few lakhs. Have they been included? The ECI did not respond, and nobody knows

Imagine preparing for the first Test to be played by your country and not knowing till after 4 am on the day of the match — less than eight hours before the toss — who your captain would be. This was the crisis Indian cricket found itself facing as the clock ticked down to the most important moment in the history of Indian cricket.

AI-generated videos are gaining popularity. For a platform that grew on human creativity, this does not bode well

The SC order recognises the complexity of the exercise, both in scale and due to its constricted timelines in the poll-bound state

PM’s call for reform and self-reliance struck the right note; the spectre of the ‘intruder’ one of disquiet

The six-year-old Assam problem was resolved with comprehensive but separate agreements calling for disenfranchisement of foreign nationals who entered the state between January 1, 1966 and March 24, 1971, and the resignation of the Saikia government.

More than a social media phenomenon, the 'claw grip' trend shows how a woman makes room for herself in a world that often ignores her needs

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

Much more needs to be done, and quickly.

Yet India holds enough cards to play the long game

If we are a free society, should the exercise of freedom be an act of bravado demanding that the citizen pays a heavy price for it?

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on August 14, 1985.

Comfort matters, and bunions and hammer toes are too high a price to pay to look good

That such bans continue to find official favour points to a deeper discomfort with diversity and a political imagination that sees the idea of India as a monolith

One study calculates that more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined

The solution needs to take into confidence those who look after strays all over the country: Ordinary people, NGOs

Let people be encouraged to participate in the project of nation-building by constructing roads, bridges, universities and all manner of public infrastructure.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on August 13, 1985.

Pakistan is far more than the folie de grandeur of one man bent on forcing India-Pakistan hyphenation on the international stage – unsuccessfully

Greer Jarrett's research, a form of “experimental archaeology”, sought to recreate the hardships faced by traders, fishermen among the Vikings