Express Opinion

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 8, 1986.

A donkey-drawn cart creaked forward under the weight of a fleeing family: Three children clinging to their parents, bags of belongings teetering at the back, and the donkey pulling on, battered and thin.

He was a man of both enormous talent and towering ambition, committed to putting life itself on the screen, with all its beauty, banality and tawdriness

The disaggregated data shows that the sharpest acceleration is observed in the services sector

India’s story is far from finished, and it will always invite argument. The question is the quality of the argument we choose. When eminent professionals treat insinuation as analysis, they weaken the very institutions that

AQI data show that Delhi's poor air burden is not a seasonal aberration but a round-the-year challenge that varies in intensity across months, weeks, days, even hours

If we decide that Indian public outrage against Bangladesh determines eligibility, what happens to Bangladeshi Hindu cricketers like Litton Das or Soumya Sarkar?

While the language of reservation and victimhood still endures, the dominant narrative hails Dalits, OBCs, and women as aspirational stakeholders in a Bharatiya civilisational project

Not only did the movement disrupt the patronage network that China cultivated over the years, but it has also severely reduced the chances of Oli’s party regaining the same position and power in the immediate

The real reason why Maduro was deposed lies in oil and petro-dollars. Venezuela, at 303 billion barrels (BB), has the world’s largest proven oil reserves

If India wants her lasting footprint in global filmmaking, we need institutional assistance without interference that would nurture experimentation, and enable independent cinema to thrive, contributing to the creative economy

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

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 7, 1986.

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

On the face of it, the move is designed to push the world towards cleaner production systems that cut down emissions and slow down climate change. While that is a worthy goal, penalties like the

When there’s a mounting backlash over colonial loot, perhaps it’s also time to take the romantic sheen off the colonial adventurer

AI can be transformative. Soon, it may even become indispensable. But the rapid scaling of technology must not come at the cost of users’ safety and privacy

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.