Washington approaches the multilateral system with four instruments in its toolkit: Exit, obstruction, bypass, and conditionality. Applied selectively, they turn multilateralism into revocable transactions

Go to Russia. Then come to visit Poland and ask yourself a simple question: Where would you prefer your children to grow up? And where would you trust your money to work?

The choice is not whether India adopts AI, but whether it does so as a sovereign shaper or a dependent user

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the pressure from MAGA elements increased so much that even Vice President J D Vance was forced to question the religious identity of his wife, who is a Hindu

Some thoughts on the intersection of media and politics from an ever-eager student of both

A trigger for tensions was India’s refusal to do things the Trump way. In the era of Trump, New Delhi’s calm and conventional approach to diplomacy became a liability

It should be evident that the steady upward trajectory of India-US relations of the past 25 years has now stalled and is unlikely to revive despite the rhetoric coming from the US embassy

In a slow-burning crisis where inaction today guarantees catastrophe tomorrow, leadership that names the problem is leadership that makes solutions possible.

Much of modern fear arises from the illusion that life must be controlled completely

India’s growth ambition is achievable if financing shifts from a focus on quantity to an emphasis on quality. Rebuilding domestic savings, shifting long-term financing toward markets, improving capital efficiency, and leveraging startups are parallel and mutually reinforcing priorities

The Kashi-Tamil Sangamam has delivered meaningful outcomes like strengthening cultural understanding, fostering academic and people-to-people exchanges and creating lasting bonds between parts of the country that share a civilisational ethos

The tariff wall, along with disputes over market access and India’s pragmatic energy ties with Russia, has transformed the economic landscape from one of cooperation to one of caution. Gor must act as the chief restructuring officer

The communists have not produced any serious literature or political thesis in several decades. Since the 1990s, they have been focused, that too in a shallow manner, on the RSS-BJP.

It is an exciting time to be an author, an illustrator, a publisher — and a reader — of literature for children and young adults

I feel the calculation — the constant awareness that if something goes wrong at a protest, if an agent decides I look ‘suspicious’, if I’m pushed or pepper‑sprayed, the burden of proof will fall on me

Achieving high-income status would require sustaining 8 per cent real growth for two decades in a sustainable, employment generating manner

There is growing resentment against violence, drugs, and insecurity that is turning the popular tide in favour of conservative parties

Architecture that evokes an emotive connection with people — especially so in works designed for the public — endures as a cherished memory of our bond with a place

From “car diplomacy” with President Vladimir Putin and Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan to Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed personally escorting Modi, and Bhutan’s King receiving him on the tarmac, these moments underscored relationships rooted in trust and genuine goodwill

The striking workers were described as a small minority of “miscreants”.

The new law attempts to attain a goal of guaranteeing 125 days of employment per rural household. This should incrementally enhance the workdays allocated to willing households in future as against the 100 days framework.

The response to the strike showed that the urban middle class, which is the biggest beneficiary of their services, is unlikely to come out in support.

India’s story is far from finished, and it will always invite argument. The question is the quality of the argument we choose. When eminent professionals treat insinuation as analysis, they weaken the very institutions that make reform possible

Senior officers shaped by prolonged counter-insurgency service often develop a distinctive capacity to manage complexity — balancing firmness with empathy, authority with restraint. Sinha epitomised this quality.