Express Opinion

Making the price build-up of blended petrol public, including the ethanol share, its procurement cost, and its tax treatment, would enhance accountability, improve fiscal coordination between the Centre and states, and give consumers a clear

The Supreme Court has long stood as the ultimate guardian of India’s environmental legacy, a role that this judgment now risks diluting

The ISA proved to be a diplomatic win for India in a multipolar world to forge a new treaty-based international organisation. India not only reached out to “solar-rich” developing countries, but actively brought on board

What Selvaraj ultimately captures is a simple but unsettling truth: Love, in such worlds, is not merely emotional sustenance but a survival strategy

The plan would identify permissible areas for mining, ecologically sensitive areas, and core areas only after incorporating a thorough analysis of the cumulative environmental impacts and include post-mining restoration and rehabilitation measures

Despite appearances, the ‘MAGA 2.0’ administration is governed by personality-driven whims rather than systematic process, making US policy highly unpredictable and reactive

As temperatures rise across India and South Asia, heatwaves are triggering crop failures, humanitarian disasters, and a growing crisis of heat-related illness

As the world leaves the Compute Era and enters the Diffusion Era, India – its companies, its institutions and governments – must ask three questions

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 24, 1985.

An award season favourite and his first film since his 2022 imprisonment, the film offers no easy answers or catharsis, but remains resolutely humane

Two decades after elimination was announced, persistent child cases reveal ongoing transmission, late detection, and critical gaps in India’s leprosy control strategy

From agrarian reform and rural–urban inequality to social justice and sustainability, Charan Singh’s ideas offer urgent lessons for contemporary India

The choice before India is clear: Continue with fragmented welfare expansion that erodes fiscal health, or adopt a national framework that balances compassion with prudence, ensuring equity, stability, and sustainability

Old values still matter, but hard work, patience and perseverance can’t be taught through fake deprivation in a world where abundance is real

Although the CJI’s oral remarks are not legally binding, they risk shaping national public opinion in a harmful way and may further embolden the current regime to treat brutally those it categorises as “infiltrators/ghuspaithiya”

One can debate whether an Islamic society is the solution to Bangladesh’s challenges surrounding development and identity, but blaming India is certainly not

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 23, 1985.

The Yunus government, if it wants to maintain a modicum of credibility, must be seen to calm the situation rather than fanning the flames, as it has done over the last year

Every creature, from a lactobacillus to a leopard, is living on borrowed life. Predation is simply the returning of that loan. In nature, being eaten isn’t always a tragedy

If there's one thing the redacted documents have revealed it is this: That when consequences are rare and reputations endlessly salvageable, abuse finds cover

Delhi cannot solve a structural problem through seasonal theatrics. What it needs is a permanent clean-transport war room and a unified five-year mission

We need to debate not God but godmen. The fact is that the intellectual and moral quality of religious leadership is fast declining across major religions in India

That the government has kept this core element in the new rural job guarantee framework and has enhanced the guaranteed days of employment to 125 from 100 is welcome. But, transferring the burden of the

Bangladesh has no Aam Aadmi Party to hold a Gandhian fast for peace, or a Rahul Gandhi to embrace the commoner victims. There is a lack of an institution that can embody and enforce a

Each time a middle-class Malayali dares to dream beyond their means, Vijayan from ‘Nadodikkattu’ seems to whisper, ‘Ethra manoharamaaya nadakkaatha aachaarangal (what beautiful, unrealistic dreams)’, a line that gently mocks, yet deeply empathises with, the