The reason wealth tax failed earlier is because it was deliberately made complicated by allowing concessions, loopholes, etc. Now, with digital records, it should be easier to implement

The small difference is that while Congress argued that the Constitution was being violated today, for the ruling party, the violations of yesterday matter the most. Isn’t this both funny and tragic?

Sensitive issues concerning fishing rights and minorities are priority discussions to be had. With National People’s Power’s win ushering in a new government in Sri Lanka, it will be important for Colombo and Delhi to effectively communicate and pass a resolution

“IF I DIE a violent death as some fear and a few are plotting, I know the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassin, not in my dying,” said the late Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, in a note she left behind.

Krishna has consistently pushed the boundaries of Carnatic music by questioning orthodoxy and advocating for diversity and social justice. Does his intellectual criticism of M S Subbulakshmi’s legacy undo his significant contributions to the artform?

We have a politics that has created the sense of a permanent ascriptive majority and minority, with the latter demanding that the Constitution represent it as a social force. Can we survive this contradiction and keep some semblance of the Constitution?

The nostalgia behind these characters has found a new home as they go out of copyright in a few weeks but there is a time and place for characters of the past -- teaching old dogs new tricks can’t be sustainable

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 17, 1984.

TikTok has managed to do damage worth an entire nation’s energy demands by producing a larger carbon footprint than Greece. Maybe it’s time to put your phone down

India needs to reduce inequality of opportunity, and invest in health and education. Taxing the wealth of the rich could prove counterproductive

He saw himself as a lifelong student. His quest to find new sounds made tabla one of India’s biggest cultural exports.

It is unlikely that a large population will strengthen our economy through high consumption — more likely a large population with low education/skills will increase unemployment, and have little disposable income for high consumption.

The relief in headline numbers hides wide variation across the geographies and economic classes

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 16, 1984.

Across the political spectrum, the respect for independent India’s founding document is intact. Maintaining its values requires continuous conversation and dialogue of the kind witnessed in Parliament

Reversing our gaze by moving from a bird to a worm’s eye policy view of the daily life of employers suggests private, productive, formal non-farm jobs that pay higher wages need digitising, decriminalising and rationalising regulatory cholesterol.

Part of the reason Cattelan’s Comedian has become a media sensation is because, in many ways, it’s a clever metaphor for our times: a zero-effort piece with zero aesthetic value, the Kim Kardashian version of art, famous and expensive for being ridiculous and nothing else.

Mr Jaishankar and Mr Vaishnaw can legitimately be proud of the progress we have made in the country since liberalisation in 1991. It was the dawn of economic freedom. There were setbacks... Yet, successive governments stood on the shoulders of the previous government(s) and added more building blocks.

In a country in which most people are illiterate in the ways of democracy these are dangerous ideas to propound because they can end up being believed when their place is really in the garbage bin. So here is a personal request from me to our Members of Parliament: grow up please. Enough.

Residents of the uber exclusive Mount Pleasant Road in Mumbai’s Malabar Hill are waiting anxiously for their neighbour, Eknath Shinde, to vacate the chief minister’s bungalow, Varsha

The Taste Atlas Awards feature the top 100 popular cuisines like Italian and Indian but it lacks the most important ingredient of all - a serendipitous journey that your regular foodie makes

As we commemorate the 75th year of the Constitution, the future of the Places of Worship Act lies in the hands of the Supreme Court and they could very well decide the role of history in shaping this diverse nation’s future

An estimated 2 lakh people, a quarter of the total population of Bhopal, have fled the city in a desperate bid to escape any danger arising out of the deadly MIC gas at the Union Carbide plant.

India’s second world champion may underplay his young age. But in it lies the promise of even greater things