Express Opinion

On one level, ‘Subarnarekha’ is about the ‘refugee problem’; a recognition of how livelihoods, homes, identities, and human connections in the old country are lost and must be recreated. This is equally relevant today

Tripura’s journey was no fluke, or made solely on the virtues of semi-retired hands borrowed from other states. Seven of the 11 that upended the team from Karnataka were born and raised in the state.

The latest GEO report, however, has been marked by a lack of consensus on phasing out fossil fuels, switching to renewables and reducing the use of plastics.

In this backdrop, the impeachment motion does not just set a disquieting precedent. It is also a case of the DMK shooting itself in the foot.

The proposed Jan Vishwas Siddhant is transformational. All licences outside the four areas of national security, public safety, human health and environment will be converted to perpetual self-registration

Debate over terrorism should be free from ‘I am the victim’ versus ‘I said so’ narratives and focus on reforming religious doctrines themselves

A chartered DC-8 jetliner carrying US military personnel home from West Asia crashed and exploded near Gander airport in Canada, killing all 250 soldiers and eight crew aboard, officials said.

At a time when parliamentary debate is increasingly shaped by spectacle, the former Speaker’s career offers a quiet provocation

We all hope for a memorable wedding, I just didn’t expect mine to end up as aviation folklore

If the judiciary, the final sentinel, will not exorcise caste from its reasoning, ‘Mother of Democracy’ becomes a slogan, not a destiny

While Satyajit Ray reached the pinnacle in his first venture, for Ghatak, it took six years and the experience of making three films — Nagarik, Ajantrik and Bari Theke Paliye — to create his outstanding

The very elision of the term “grants” signals a deeper policy shift, from the realm of public revenue-financing to loan-servicing

The government has a responsibility to pass meaningful legislation, and the Opposition, a duty to offer substantive accountability. Both sides are falling short

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 12, 1985.

IndiGo is symbolic of India's rise as an aviation power. Resentment against its size and dominance is unjustified

Every December now, without fail, Spotify performs its little annual ritual: Wrapped. Bright colours, cheerful graphs telling me what I listened to, how much, my listening age, and apparently, what kind of person that makes

When one player accounts for almost two-thirds of the passenger market and when it is often the only carrier to many airports, the shoe is firmly on IndiGo’s feet. Not the government’s, irrespective of what

At best, the Bill is a band-aid that avoids a deeper reckoning. In fact, as with so many of its predecessors, it carries the danger of being used to criminalise the very people it seeks

Acute aloneness, the seeming impossibility to communicate with anyone outside their tremulous selves, the legitimising of online stalking have led to human beings constructing detailed paracosms.

We must ask whether the form of party politics that dominates student life in India is counterproductive. Should student bodies be formally affiliated with political parties at all?

If misinformation is unavoidable, wisdom lies in becoming more discerning and renewing the quest for knowledge. For fish and humans, one mantra could help: Don’t follow the herd, follow the science

Parliament needs to come alive more often. But it also needs to use its time carefully and wisely

Republicans are recalculating. Fear of a primary challenge from Trump once kept them obedient. Now their greater anxiety may be the Democrat on the election ballot

As the world observes “Universal Health Coverage Day” on December 12, I would say that governments may come and go, but stepping back from the standards of public welfare would be an injustice to the

A $200-billion relationship hangs in the balance as both nations test political limits to revive a stalled bilateral agreement