In face of challenges to its economy, EU needs to be more open to India’s concerns on trade

To become innovation hubs, Indian cities need to improve the quality of life they offer

Self-sufficiency in pulses and oilseeds will not only improve India's nutritional security but also heal soils, conserve groundwater and save air from pollution

Every tissue, snack, or safety pin tucked inside is both a symptom of a society that demands too much from women and a testament to women’s extraordinary adaptability.

The best part of parenting has been discovering just how different our boys are. Now, it is for me to teach them that their achievements will never be pitted against anyone else’s

The recent visit of Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to New Delhi in the second week of October was not just another diplomatic engagement. It reflected how old ties are being reworked in a new regional setting marked by uncertainty and change.

I have said more than once already that it is my fervent hope that Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj party somehow manages to win because he is not a ‘potted plant’ (political princeling) and has spent more than two years wandering about the villages of Bihar trying to understand what the people of our poorest state really need.

India needs to appreciate the growing urge in ASEAN for enhanced ties amid the ongoing geopolitical flux

The slow pace of the flow of aid, sporadic Israeli attacks on Gaza, the delay in the reopening of the Rafah crossing, and the extent of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) involvement, which is opposed by Netanyahu, pose serious impediments

They also lay the foundations for EPFO to morph from an isolated employer instrument into a lifetime

From teachers and doctors to scientists and security personnel, staffing shortages have spared no sector. This has precipitated not just a jobs crisis but also a gaping governance deficit.

Recent reforms are caught between two opposing policy goals. While the streamlined withdrawal processes help towards “ease of living”, they compromise the product’s identity as a retirement instrument

Poetry endures because it refuses perfection. It carries within it the human crack, the breath that falters, the moment that slips between sense and sound. In its imperfections, it mirrors us.

As 80th UNGA unfolds, stakes are clear -- future of global cooperation depends not only on reforming institutions but on rebuilding legitimacy. It must speak to concerns of ordinary citizens, not just diplomats

Worldwide, we are witnessing a return of the “fortress” mentality that seeks to protect intellectual resources by making them more difficult to access. Unfortunately, as Tagore knew, reason and knowledge do not flourish if they are dammed up or placed behind walls

Its history of 47 years shows that whatever little the minorities can expect in terms of the constitutional provisions for their rights as equal citizens can never be secured through NCM's intervention.

From the sixth century to today, a thread of protests connects a group relegated to the margins

Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and increasingly China, have inserted themselves into conflict resolution as Western power fragments and the UN weakens. Mediation has become the new language of power

The real question is not whether Homebound wins an Oscar. It is whether we, as a society, are willing to face the dilemmas it lays bare.

The tulip in Delhi vanishes in mere days amid press and much fanfare, while nobody talks about the fragrant madhumalti and champa that lasts a whole season.

While the quantity of infrastructure built in the last decade has been large (and the amounts spent colossal), the quality has been appalling — obsolete design and technology, falling bridges, collapsing buildings, and new highways that are washed away after the first rain. On quality jobs, the less said the better

The MEA disowns responsibility for the retrogressive step of barring women journalists from attending the press conference by Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, at the Afghan embassy in Delhi on October 10.

India is still a long, long way from being a fully developed country despite our Prime Minister selling us this happy but perhaps deluded dream. Dreams are good, even deluded ones.

India must guard against last-minute negotiating stratagems, protect its freedom to manoeuvre, promote national interest and autonomy