The party’s efforts shed its image as a North Indian party by invoking folk deities show that it has not grasped the operational logic of modern Tamil polity

When platforms deploy generative AI systems, they assume a more direct role in content creation, potentially forfeiting protections premised on mere hosting

To think like a mountain is to appreciate the profound interconnectedness of an ecosystem that is a result of evolutionary interdependence. The controversy over the 100-meter height rule is an example of short-termism

Senior officers shaped by prolonged counter-insurgency service often develop a distinctive capacity to manage complexity — balancing firmness with empathy, authority with restraint. Sinha epitomised this quality.

The solution to overcrowded shelters is humane euthanasia, or “compassion”, constitutionally speaking — a quick end to unnecessary suffering

In a quest to record electoral victories, parties are happy to welcome lumpen and undesirable elements bereft of any political ideology and basic civility

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

The footage inside Mollick’s car also makes us ask something: Why do we always imagine stories involving a vulnerable woman and a man in control to have a horrific end?

The US President isn't just an orange-skinned reality TV star who has created a new right-wing politics in America

If Delhi is serious about addressing air pollution, it must treat public transport not as a supplementary option but as the backbone of urban life.

Free-living dogs that are vaccinated, sterilised, and monitored can be observed, managed, and controlled in the open. Disease trends can be tracked. Interventions can be targeted. Confinement, by contrast, hides risk until it erupts

Venezuelans would hope that Washington’s meddling does not lead to yet more uncertainty and societal chaos

Women have been excluded for being ‘absent/shifted’. An overwhelming proportion are married whose names have been deleted from their maternal home, but not included in their married home.

Low inflation is a cause for concern because when food inflation is negative, farmers could be getting lower income even though production was very good for the kharif crops. This has ripple effects.

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.

Trump 1.0 was an accidental presidency where institutionalists, many with a military background, held sway. Breaking away from Pax Americana was not their way. Trump 2.0 has no such guardrails.

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 Supreme Court's motivation to balance public safety and animal welfare cannot be faulted. The pathway to hell, however, is often paved with good intentions, and we point to three serious risks that could follow from the rulings

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

Courts cannot cede their constitutional obligation to protect personal liberty, particularly when delayed trials hand the executive an undue advantage, and the political character of incarceration is evident

India already faces a perception problem in its neighbourhood. Its language may be measured but its actions are frequently viewed as heavy-handed when dealing with smaller neighbours

What platforms offer is not emancipatory visibility but a regime of operational visibility oriented entirely toward capital. Labour is tracked, timed, rated, and priced with unprecedented precision while remaining politically invisible and structurally voiceless

The GWT was signed for 30 years and is going to expire in December 2026. However, it can be renewed “on the basis of mutual consent”

If Xi decides to view a Taiwanese president as dangerous to Chinese interests, could he not then cite the Trump administration’s security doctrine to initiate military operations in what he sees as his own backyard?

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.