This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 3, 1985.

D&D is a great builder of solidarities, but many of its ‘traditional’ features, such as the fetishisation of female characters, can be alienating. So, what’s the harm in making it more inclusive?

The BPSC examination row points to a systemic distortion and lack of accountability that is taking a high toll across states

Met body's warning should lead to building guardrails. It’s time the political class takes ownership of the climate crisis

Reading ‘Ice-Candy-Man’ (1988), I realised how fiction can humanise history. The story, narrated through the eyes of a young girl, showed the human cost of the division, beyond its politicisation through nationalistic lenses.

Limits of the party’s electoral successes, the narrowness of its voter umbrella, resorting to high-handed tactics and suspicion of dissent point to a deficit.

Gambhir ticked off his team. But there is more to this story than a coach cracking the whip after a defeat.

Banks' bad loans continue to fall. But signs of stress in the unsecured and small loans segment require close monitoring

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 2, 1985.

It could put small players and PSUs units at a disadvantage. But city gas distributors could also consolidate

Chief Minister Biren Singh's admission of regret for violence on his watch is overdue and welcome. But he is part of the problem in Manipur

Today, gods come together with land markets, global financial and statist processes and worldliness isn't separate from divine mysteries

Even as technologies become more consolidated and corporatised, the efforts of people who fight to keep the internet free, open and empathetic are what make it worth maintaining.

Technology and its bros may promise placid perfection. But people must make their own New Year resolutions

SpaDeX's success will place India in an elite group of nations with space docking capacity, which currently includes only the US, Russia and China.

India's 2024 verdict told both Government and Opposition to reset, rethink. Hopefully, that will happen in 2025.

These are not predictions; it would be presumptuous to claim omniscience or even foresight. But here are five trends more in the realm of how the world might feel, rather than a prediction of actual events.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 31, 1984.

Are historians meant to clear up questions of what lies beneath Mughal-era mosques? Historians don’t tell the nation what to think about a particular issue but how to begin to think about it.

A wave of global anti-incumbency, public discontent, and divisive rhetoric. 2024, the year of the elections, witnessed everything.

D Gukesh was crowned a world chess champion, Neeraj Chopra lost out on an Olympic gold medal, the men’s Indian cricket team hoisted up the World T20 trophy – 2024 was the year of epic shots and record-breaking feats, muddles and mishaps

The upcoming Union budget, subsequent meeting of the monetary policy committee, and a new Trump administration – India will have to wait to get clarity on how the government and RBI can support the economy for 2025

The reality of America's political economy appears to be bumping up against the rhetoric of the campaign trail with immigration being one of the most contentious issues in the presidential election.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 30, 1984.