The very institution that once insisted on expert-driven governance solutions now appears willing to substitute scientific analysis with judicial intuition. Interim orders, passed without a full evidentiary foundation or inclusive hearing, risk entrenching irreversible consequences

Over the years, it has provided a safety net to households and employment to women and older Indians who would not easily find other jobs. Studies also suggest that it has been instrumental in increasing rural wages.

New Delhi’s current approach, restrained, careful, and measured, may be the right one. Silence in international politics is not always hesitation; it can be a strategy

The past fascination with Fidel Castro or Che Guevara produced more posters and T-shirts than purposeful policies. As South America enters a new political phase — shaped by deep internal churn and restructured great power relations — India must seek to deepen and widen its own footprint in the region

We either spend a decade fighting climate tariffs at WTO, or build the carbon pricing architecture that makes Indian steel the world’s cleanest and most competitive.

In time, srtificial generative intelligence will surpass human cognitive intelligence. But if, as a result, human judgment is supplanted or subverted, the pillar upon which the arc of four industrial revolutions was built would be knocked down

In FY2021-FY2025, the combined capital expenditure and loans & advances of 28 states reported a healthy 18.5 per cent CAGR, doubling to Rs 8.4 trillion

In Beed, Mayank Gandhi floated the idea of Krishikul under the Global Vikas Trust to augment farmers’ incomes. They convinced farmers to shift from traditional crops to fruit crops. The results have been astounding.

Separate distortions and transgressions rest on a bed of entangled themes — the vigilante is empowered, governance resists accountability, law is used to bend the rule of law, democracy is undermined using the tool-kit of democracy

Late-night parliamentary sittings have a long history, with the most famous being the midnight session of August 14-15, 1947, when India marked its Independence.

We need an Opposition party that would speak up on these issues, and on the consistent and brutal attack on India’s pluralist legacy by thugs who owe allegiance to the Sangh Parivar.