Express Opinion

Modi knows that the liberati media is gunning for him. Then why give them a beefy opportunity?

The judiciary came to the conclusion that the NJAC, as currently constituted, would be a threat to judicial independence. It is hard to disagree.

The barbarity of Dadri, in which Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched on suspicion that his family had “consumed beef”, continues to dominate the press.

The value of Angus Deaton’s work lies in honing the techniques that go behind the construction of data series used for policy analysis.

The new ism in the city is nationalism.

Guidelines on radio-taxi aggregators are welcome. But government cannot evade its own responsibilities.

The Netaji saga, India’s most gripping unsolved whodunit, is drawing to a close.

The Bank of Baroda scandal brings another reminder of long-pending governance reforms in public sector banks

The temples of justice are also home to moments of laughter.

Closing of the Muslim mind is a global development. Are we seeing a closing of the Indian mind, too?

While denying the allegation that the Soviets intended to launch “a surprise attack” against China, the Pravda said Maoists needed the idea to cover up their “great power designs in respect of national minorities.

Courts have been at the forefront of the environmental protection effort. But truck levy veers into executive domain.

Great power intervention seems set to make the Syrian crisis more intractable.

PM Modi’s breaking of his silence on Bisara draws attention to what he could have said, what he didn’t.

The city where Ghulam Ali cannot sing gave Bade Ghulam Ali Khan a home.

Start-up entrepreneurship needs several forms of encouragement, beginning with an insolvency law.

With Sudheendra Kulkarni’s blackened face, TV news showed us our timewarp.

Mission Indradhanush is a successful intervention in scaling up immunisation for full coverage.

From the beginning, the ICHR has been beholden to the political and historical beliefs of whoever was in power. This aspect of its leadership has not changed.

Is ‘Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatam’ the right invocation for Lord Padmanabha of Thiruvananthapuram?

Angus Deaton has helped us understand poverty. His work has lessons for India’s policymakers.

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on October 14, Forty Years Ago.

Lumpenism of the Sena, pusillanimity of mainstream parties, ensure that Mumbai is losing sight of itself.

Upper-caste alliances are not called casteist. Subaltern caste coalitions are.

Shiv Sena’s real threat is this: It can shift markers of language and public norms.