Express Opinion

Government has offered significant concessions. Farmers must not turn their back on a solution.

Market reformers must clean up their ideological lenses and see the reality of where power lies in markets. As Barbara Harriss-White, a scholar of India’s agricultural markets once observed, “deregulated imperfect markets may become more,

In Britain, William Shakespeare scripts a pandemic twist

Ashutosh Bhardwaj writes: Politics takes refuge in a leader; poetry is a celebration of people. Dabral’s political poetry is not about grand revolutions, but the muted sorrows of the common woman and man.

Suhas Palshikar writes: In itself, a prime minister agreeing to negotiate is not a shortcoming, but after having built an aura of non-negotiability about his wisdom, a settlement would mean the first step in converting

Amitabh Kant writes: What I said and what has been ascribed to me are poles apart. My statement, with relevant portions, is that India is too much of a democracy to mirror a China model.

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 11, 1980.

This Human Rights Day is an opportunity to revisit the culture-centric approach to human rights, by first improving the conditions of the creators of culture, its practitioners and workers.

Astad Deboo defied attempts to pigeonhole his practice. Taking dance beyond the proscenium space and extending the vocabulary to many others, he created collaborators for his work.

The Soviet spokesman A Zamiatian insisted at the joint briefing after the meeting that Moscow was keen on a political solution to the Afghanistan question.

Mount Everest, it turns out, is higher than previously estimated. And to many, that matters

While infrastructure development and capacity building of the anganwadi remains the key to improving the programme, the standards of all its services need to be upscaled

Bombay HC is right to underline the need for dignity for undertrials. Speedy justice must also be made a priority

The only way we will ensure honey is genuine is through traceability and technology and digitisation makes this task easier.

By framing it as adversarial to democratic process, Niti Aayog CEO does disservice to democracy and reform

It is true that the Centre disproportionately controls resources in India; but very few states have shown a zeal to increase their own financial headroom by utilising whatever powers they might have on taxation.

The new building will stand out as an institution created by 130 crore citizens, cementing India’s place as one of the biggest and renowned democracies in the world.

If BJP ruled states can open up agricultural markets with sensitivity and care, they would have not only demonstrated the wisdom of dismantling marketing monopolies but have also earned the gratitude of millions of poor

Over 100 million toilets have been constructed, but many are not used for various reasons.

India does not spend enough on its young people. It is their opportunities that have been constricted the most by the pandemic.

Elections to local bodies, key to governance in the state, will be closely read for larger signals

Brezhnev, who had a 50-minute meeting with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a few hours earlier made no reference to Afghanistan but said that the Soviet Union was always ready to discuss “in a spirit of

We are the only society that not only differentiates spaces as pure and impure but also its people. There is an exclusive section of our population — specific castes — to clean human filth. The

By using court order on Roshni Act for political ends, then asking for review, government invites charge of bad faith.

Centre must make transparent efforts to push exports consistently and not follow the stop-go policy emanating from price controls for the Indian consumer market.