Opinion

Opinion | Are Iran's 'Proxies' Rising Again? Inside Hamas, Hezbollah's Strange Resurgence

When Hamas struck across multiple locations in Israel on October 7, 2023, there was a sense of disbelief, shock, and fear. Israeli intelligence had been tricked, and the military had been caught off guard. But Israel recovered in an instant and launched a massive counterattack into Gaza. Driven by a collective sense of rage and revenge over the bru...

Opinion | Gyanesh Kumar Row May Be Doing Something Unthinkable For India's 'Lost' Opposition

There seems to be a greater willingness within the Opposition to accept Rahul Gandhi's leadership, at least on the SIR controversy. But the INDIA bloc itself seems to be undergoing a strange renewal.

Opinion | flydubai Hijack, And How Syria's Descent Into 'Jihadism' Has Now Become Everyone's Problem

Al Hammimi, the Omani pilot who tried to crash a plane with 175 passengers on September 30, is a symptom of Syria's long-raging sectarian and extremist fire that has now reached far beyond Syria's borders.

Opinion | In Data: Decoding The Modi Phenomenon In 25 Years Of Public Service

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who turned 76 recently, completes 25 years in public service on Wednesday (October 7). The celebrations sprawled across the country, and the BJP organised a month full of events - a scale befitting a leader whose personal brand has, for over two decades, been treated as inseparable from his party's electoral fortunes. ...

Opinion | Uttar Pradesh's New Political Grammar: The Calculus of Caste vs Rule Of Law

As we head close to the assembly elections early next year, the political discourse in Uttar Pradesh is caught between two competing models of mobilisation. On one side is chief minister Yogi Adityanath's emergent governance calculus, where the state's role is defined by the delivery of security and welfare, decoupled from identity. On the other is...

Opinion | Gurugram Techie Suicide: Why Does A Woman Asking For Alimony Enrage Us So?

Social media, with its spectacular disregard for facts, turns one man's tragedy into an indictment of all women. The recent death of 28-year-old techie has become precisely that.

Opinion | India's Gen Z Faces Down The Artificial Intelligence Future

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to make India a developed economy by 2047 required 9%-plus growth in per capita dollar income even before coding tools such as Anthropic PBC's Claude and OpenAI's o3 arrived.

Opinion | Hegseth Is Overhauling America's War Machine. Why India Should Be Watching Closely

On September 30, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced six reforms at Marine Corps Base Quantico. A new Autonomous Warfare Command Project Meridian, a study of future warfare FORTRESS America, which aims to take US military bases off the civilian power grid and bring critical supply chains home A new showpiece base, with states com...

Opinion | India's $18.3 Billion Forex Reserve Shock Is A Warning, Not Just A Number

The reported USD 18.34 billion decline in India's foreign exchange reserves in a single week has attracted attention for more than its size

flydubai Scare Could Rewrite Cockpit Security To Fight Inside Threat

On September 30, the world was rocked by the news of a terror attack in our neighbourhood involving a flydubai aircraft. It was followed by unbelievable scenes of courage, bravery and singular heroism of the pilot and passengers of flydubai FZ1073 who stopped an attempt by the co-pilot to crash the aircraft or as some alleged, perform a September 1...

Blog | From Swachh To Swasth: 13 Years Of A Campaign, And People Who Make It Matter

A clean India meant a healthy India, and a healthy India meant a stronger, more productive and more prosperous country.

Opinion: Tagore And Sarat Chandra's 1927 Dispute Returns In Srijit Mukherji's New Film

A hundred years ago the British banned a book because of the ideas it contained. The novelist was Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay - one of the literary legends from Bengal. He turned to Rabindranath Tagore for support against the ban. Tagore had a different take on the protest. Cut to 2026, West Bengal has just seen a major political change. And in the...

Opinion | Trump May Like Pak's Generals. But His Bureaucrats Have Other Ideas

Official Washington has a different take from political' Washington

Opinion | SIR, The Election Commission, And A Trust Deficit

Politics over the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls is becoming increasingly bitter. The Congress has stepped up its attack on the ECI (Election Commission of India) and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, while the INDIA bloc is preparing to coordinate its response. Members of the INDIA bloc also held a strategic meeting o...

Opinion | Are Saudi Arabia And UAE Reuniting Again After 10 Years?

On Tuesday, the UAE's Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, Mansour bin Zayed, met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Opinion | 'Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics': On The Controversy Around India's GDP Growth Figures

The debate is less about a single figure than about a decade-long erosion of trust in official statistics.

Opinion | AI vs Skills: What Does Indian Economy Really Need?

India's quarterly GDP growth were revealed recently, and one thing is very clear: India needs manufacturing of greater scale. However, India's manufacturing debate is asking the wrong question. It is increasingly framed as a choice between two futures: one in which factories are powered by artificial intelligence, automation and autonomous machi...

Opinion | Why India Cannot Keep 'Overestimating' Its Value To Washington

Some of India's value to Washington came from the tension between the US and China. That is changing now.

Opinion | Why Does Trump Want To Sell Arms To A US 'Adversary'? Inside His Strange Bargain

Trump's aides maintain that no such offer had been made. But the story points to a larger strategy

Opinion | From 'Jan Sewa' To 'Rashtra Sewa': Twenty-Five Years Of Narendra Modi's Leadership

October 7 marks a quarter-century since Prime Minister Narendra Modi first assumed public office as Gujarat's Chief Minister. The moment deserves analysis rather than nostalgia, because these years are held together not by any single policy but by a governing logic summarised in an idiom: Reform, Perform, Transform. Reform the architecture, perform...