Express Opinion

Narendra Modi’s impressive outreach to the neighbours when he took charge of Indian diplomacy in May 2014 has seen some unfortunate stumbles — in the Maldives, Nepal and Pakistan.

The challenge is that different forms of malnutrition — stunting, wasting, overweight, anaemia, low birth weight — exist in almost all populations.

A number of significant disclosures were forced by the RTI, including the information regarding 2G and Commonwealth Games and so on.

As an aspiring world power, India cannot shrug off its responsibility to make its military establishment gender neutral.

A nonstop flight between Bangalore and Silicon Valley is a great idea

Ten years on, it is a weapon for the citizen facing arbitrary power. It needs to be protected, taken further.

Investments in the real economy are needed to ensure financial inclusion is for real.

The Union cabinet lacks a champion for agriculture

A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on October 12, Forty Years Ago.

The PM is no district magistrate and cannot be expected to personally look after a family in Dadri. But he ought to do what leaders must.

My shortcoming is that I do not know the local dialect, Angika, which is spoken in Bhagalpur, says Arijit.

This contest will shape the fate of progressive politics for the nation.

The state will get a new government, and the country an intimation of future politics.

The president went where the PM feared to go

Narendra Modi finally spoke, but it was not a strong message and it came too late.

Much of the BJP's core Hindutva thinking is Brahminical.

The Noida jinx myth goes back nearly two decades, starting with Chief Minister Vir Bahadur Singh in 1988.

The ascent to power of the BJP — with an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha — brought with it a sense of foreboding.

The loss of an important sponsor sends a clear message: If the BCCI wants to save the IPL, it must wield the broom

Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet Hydrogen bomb, who later became an opponent of nuclear tests, was selected for the 1975 Nobel peace prize. The committee chose Sakharov, a bitter critic of persecution in the

Yet again, the Nobels for literature and peace have bucked public expectations

Decades of mismanagement have hobbled India’s mental health programme

Can a sovereign parliament, after having passed such a vote, be expected to yield to overt outside pressure? Modi’s neighbourhood policy is about to suffer a mortal blow — if it has not already.

A writer has two chief weapons against the state: To write, and to refuse or return awards from the establishment.

Let’s talk state responsibility for the lynching at Dadri. PM’s response skirts the issue