Express Opinion

As Europe’s leaders prepare to deepen engagement with India, the challenge will be to give the Indo-European idea concrete meaning. The Modi-Merz talks have taken an important step in that direction.

Dismissing US interest in Greenland as mere bravado is to miss the tectonic shift underway in geopolitics. Power politics never disappeared; it simply went into hibernation. The Arctic thaw has awakened it

The real question is not how we raise our sons or daughters differently, but why courage, care, ambition, and vulnerability still need to be assigned a gender at all

Transitions are rarely linear, and history offers no guarantees. But what is clear is that the Islamic Republic has reached the limits of its governing imagination. It no longer knows how to adapt without undoing

The moving meditation on love and loss in ‘Hamnet’ features two of the finest contemporary actors, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. It is also an excellent example of the power of collaborations.

The challenge the world over is to ensure that monetary policy does not become subservient to the executive and subject to the whims and fancies of political leaders. Independence of central banks is a much-valued

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 13, 1986.

Tehran has warned that it will retaliate if attacked by the US. This comes less than a year after Iran’s 12-day war with Israel last June, during which US forces bombed Iranian nuclear facilities.

Let's hope that those parents who want their kids to be toppers and brilliant, who push them to be cutthroat in a dog-eat-dog world, spoil the dog – even if they couldn't spare the child

Iran’s streets have again become a national ledger of grievance. The protest wave began in late December 2025 with a familiar trigger: A currency slide and prices that jumped faster than wages. Shopkeepers in Tehran

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

The way income inequality is framed in public debate is a red herring. By associating all talk of equality with resentment, we avoid asking serious questions about inequality’s real effects

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

Since the colonial era, many Assamese and indigenous people believe that the migration of Hindu and Muslim Bengali people from across East-Pakistan/Bangladesh had eaten into their land, demography, culture and identity. But the recent Karbi

It suggested a broader shift in how fashion engages with public life. It is no longer enough to be bold. In a sombre political climate, restraint becomes powerful

The judgment denying them bail presents the bureaucratic state as fumbling with “complex proceedings”, and nods in sympathy

The country needs a long-term plan to fix its water quality. But as an immediate measure, the government must put in place water quality monitoring and auditing systems and bolster disease surveillance mechanisms

Brutality isn't coincidental to Trump's programme, it’s central to it. Trump hopes to terrify all other Renee Goods — that is, all the rest of us — into submission

Adolescence is a transitional period, and at some point young people do acquire the capacity to consent to romantic relationships. It does not lend itself to sharp moral/legal cut-offs

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 12, 1986.

In the accusation of sexual misconduct labelled by a shooter against her coach: A grim pattern, but a swifter response

What can the Modi government do in the present situation? It must definitely keep the reform moment going

The US’s intervention is in many ways a replay of what happened in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. The response to such attacks cannot be cosmetic

Not alleviating poverty preventable by entrepreneurship is a form of violence, yet entitled dynasts continue to peddle dated ideology that views suited booted entrepreneurs as predators

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