Express Opinion

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

The first Indians who went global were not merchants or monks but farmers, potters, carpenters and women who crossed oceans with nothing except hope and a thumbprint on a contract they could not read

Perhaps the most significant fact about the 'yatra' was that it comprised largely of young people.They are responding to the call for a politics of love and opposition to purveying hatred

They represent a serious rollback of workers’ rights and advance long-standing demands of industry on issues such as labour flexibility and minimising statutory obligations

For cinephiles, the challenge remains unchanged: Fighting to preserve wonder in an ecosystem that increasingly values convenience over curiosity, and metrics over magic

The drag on productivity is hiding in plain sight, in homes where millions of mothers scale back or exit work because childcare is unaffordable or inaccessible

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on December 11, 1985.

We must ensure that our children know the stories of their land before they learn the myths of another. And we must do so in every language, English included Shashi Tharoor

In its attempt to commandeer the em dash -- as though punctuation were a finite rare earth mineral to be strip-mined -- what AI is really doing is wandering into a tradition older, stranger and

Unlike global warming mitigation, which can happen at national, regional or global levels, building defences against heat waves, floods, cyclones and storms requires action at the local level

An America that recognises limits to its power, accepts diversity in international affairs, and becomes less interventionist ought to be welcomed by Delhi