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Trump 1.0 was an accidental presidency where institutionalists, many with a military background, held sway. Breaking away from Pax Americana was not their way. Trump 2.0 has no such guardrails.

In the past, it took wars and terror attacks to snap cricket ties. Now, the goal post has shifted. Cricket has gone from being a calming balm to becoming the gunpowder kept ready to fire

New Delhi’s current approach, restrained, careful, and measured, may be the right one. Silence in international politics is not always hesitation; it can be a strategy

The Supreme Court's motivation to balance public safety and animal welfare cannot be faulted. The pathway to hell, however, is often paved with good intentions, and we point to three serious risks that could follow

The past fascination with Fidel Castro or Che Guevara produced more posters and T-shirts than purposeful policies. As South America enters a new political phase — shaped by deep internal churn and restructured great power

Courts cannot cede their constitutional obligation to protect personal liberty, particularly when delayed trials hand the executive an undue advantage, and the political character of incarceration is evident

India already faces a perception problem in its neighbourhood. Its language may be measured but its actions are frequently viewed as heavy-handed when dealing with smaller neighbours

What platforms offer is not emancipatory visibility but a regime of operational visibility oriented entirely toward capital. Labour is tracked, timed, rated, and priced with unprecedented precision while remaining politically invisible and structurally voiceless

The GWT was signed for 30 years and is going to expire in December 2026. However, it can be renewed “on the basis of mutual consent”

If Xi decides to view a Taiwanese president as dangerous to Chinese interests, could he not then cite the Trump administration’s security doctrine to initiate military operations in what he sees as his own backyard?

The world can do little but watch how the US handles the day after in a nation of 28 million people whose sovereignty it has so brazenly breached

We either spend a decade fighting climate tariffs at WTO, or build the carbon pricing architecture that makes Indian steel the world’s cleanest and most competitive.

In time, srtificial generative intelligence will surpass human cognitive intelligence. But if, as a result, human judgment is supplanted or subverted, the pillar upon which the arc of four industrial revolutions was built would be

In FY2021-FY2025, the combined capital expenditure and loans & advances of 28 states reported a healthy 18.5 per cent CAGR, doubling to Rs 8.4 trillion

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on January 5, 1986.

In Beed, Mayank Gandhi floated the idea of Krishikul under the Global Vikas Trust to augment farmers’ incomes. They convinced farmers to shift from traditional crops to fruit crops. The results have been astounding.

With the GST rate cuts clearly impacting revenues, the Centre will have to cut expenditures for meeting its deficit targets.

Separate distortions and transgressions rest on a bed of entangled themes — the vigilante is empowered, governance resists accountability, law is used to bend the rule of law, democracy is undermined using the tool-kit of

If ‘narco-terrorism’ can justify bombs and the snatching of a head of state, the line between policing and war collapses — and precedents like that don’t stay in Venezuela

Late-night parliamentary sittings have a long history, with the most famous being the midnight session of August 14-15, 1947, when India marked its Independence.

We need an Opposition party that would speak up on these issues, and on the consistent and brutal attack on India’s pluralist legacy by thugs who owe allegiance to the Sangh Parivar.

The main culprits are the State, the leaders in pivotal positions, and some organisations that have been emboldened due to the patronage of the State.

A woman doesn’t truly discover herself when life finally gives her permission. She discovers herself the moment she stops waiting for it.

Such gestures matter, especially now, because they affirm a profound truth: Compassion is not weakness, solidarity does not demand agreement, and dignity cannot depend on verdicts

They should force us to confront the wider era we inhabit, where multiple powers, convinced of their civilisational missions, reach beyond their limits and discover that the world is not clay