Express Opinion

Applied to electoral rolls, completeness demands that no eligible citizen is disenfranchised, whereas soundness demands that no ineligible person is included. These goals often come into tension in real-world systems.

Liability remains politically contentious. If something goes wrong, who pays, how much, and how quickly do victims get compensated? India’s 2010 law carried a strong moral impulse, shaped by the experience of the Bhopal gas

Since there was no opportunity for a meaningful discussion on the Bill before its passage, it is necessary to seriously engage with the clarifications and response of Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan in this

Nearly two centuries since his Minute, if Macaulay were to revisit India, he would be mostly disappointed to find that major sections of elites and masses from India have responded to his plea for colonising

The range of appropriate names runs the gamut from flowers and insects to heroes and kings. Politicians, too, have found a place in this nomenclatural biome, particularly in the US.

The India-New Zealand agreement provides for duty-free access for all Indian exports.

Justice was important in the Akhlaq case, therefore, not just for a measure of closure for the victim's family, but also for social healing.

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

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

The actor-writer-director, 69, who died last week, combined his rapier wit and astuteness with remarkable productivity, writing and acting in over 200 films

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

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

The next round of memory politics will be played out in the political battleground of Bengal, where memories of Partition have been shaping and reshaping political narratives