Opinion

Opinion | Trump's 'Hellhole' Comment Might Just Be A Favour To India

Trump is a symptom, not the system. He has just removed the euphemism, the 'polite' version of the condescension the Empire had so far hid behind. If anything, the question now is what to do with this clarity.

Opinion | America Will Still Recover From The Iran Humiliation. And That's The Tragedy

Yet, nothing seems to be too much when Trump is concerned: no offence grave enough, no articulation too vulgar.

Opinion | How Far Can India Really Avoid Other People's Wars?

New Delhi will have to build capabilities in order to maintain its autonomy. But this capacity-building has reputational risks, too.

Opinion | "5 Jets Down", Or 7, Or 11? Trump And The Horror Of His 'India-Pak' Fantasies

The more dramatic the claim, the more fluid the facts behind it become for Trump.

Opinion | Lamborghini Crash To Dying In Pits, Many Ways To Cheapen Life In India

Systemic indifference in India is no longer an abstract concern; it is a lived reality inscribed on urban landscapes and, increasingly, on citizens' bodies.

Opinion | In Trump's World, Wikipedia's Lesson On Collaboration

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's life's work rests on a proposition that feels almost subversive in 2026: that most people, given the right framework, want to collaborate in good faith.

Opinion: The Iran Regime May Survive, But It Has Lost Something Big

All revolutions have heroes: real and imaginary, rising from the ground and foisted from above, fallible and flawless. Successful revolutions, however, succeed without and despite these heroes.

Opinion | Might Is Right, Again: On America's 'Kidnapping' Of A Sitting President

The barrage of visuals showing Maduro, inelegantly dressed, in handcuffs on American soil, are startling but nothing new in the US playbook. Remember Gaddafi and Saddam? Only, the theatre is the neighbourhood and not the faraway 'Middle East'.

Opinion | Bangladesh: A Lynching, Nationalism, And Blood Sacrifice

For the present idea of Bangladeshi nationalism, a Hindu factory worker claiming that God is one and the same for everyone, despite different names, is an inconvenience. It hasn't been a new inconvenience, though.

Opinion | Pakistan's Push For An India-Less 'SAARC' Is Pure Delusion

Pakistan may want to shed its "Naach na Jaane, Aangan Tedha" mentality for its own good.

Opinion | With Sheikh Hasina's Death Sentence, It's 1975 Again In Bangladesh

Hasina becomes an emblem of the circularity of South Asian history, where leaders are alternately elevated as saviours and condemned as tyrants, often within a single lifetime.

Opinion | Why Do NRIs Hate Mamdani? Because He Threatens Their 'American' Dream

Mamdani's unapologetic leftism, his advocacy for tenants' rights, and his support for Palestine challenge the sanitised image of "model minority". Mamdani is more West Village than Wall Street, and this is what scares a section of NRIs in America.

Opinion | Does India Control The Taliban?

By trying to cover its own inadequacies in terms of domestic and neighbourhood policies using India's alleged involvement, Pakistan is again playing the victim card. But why does India let these accusations go mostly unchallenged?

Opinion | This Is Really Why Machado 'Dedicated' Her Nobel To Trump

It is perhaps fitting, in this age of irony and inversion, that the Nobel Peace Prize of 2025 has not gone to Trump, the self-proclaimed dealmaker of destiny.

Opinion | To Survive Trump, India Needs More Than Just Handshakes With Xi And Putin

The resilience of the Indian economy will outlast Trump's tariff agenda; to survive and flourish beyond that, however, will need more than friendship with Xi and Putin.

Opinion | Asim Munir, And Why Trump Must Be A Little Careful With Flatterers

Trump's assessment of the US-Pakistan relations in his first presidential term was that of a parasitic arrangement. The volte-face in the current term has many reasons, the most important being Trump's proclivity for unabashed flatterers.

Opinion | Trump, Tughlaq, Tariffs: The Dangers Of Strength Without Sense

Like Trump, Tughlaq was often described as an erratic ruler with no shortage of ambition but a chronic inability to foresee the consequences. That's their paradox: strength without strategy, vision without realism.

Opinion | China, Now Trump: Pakistan And The Art Of Somehow Finding Patrons

Pakistan has successfully lobbied Western capitals into believing in its indispensability in the regional strategic landscape. The US continues to buy this narrative for various reasons, not discounting the naivete among them.

Opinion | How Many Dead Babies Does A War Need?

Given New Delhi's historical support for Palestine, its supposed 'neutrality' today in the face of death, starvation, and genocide, citing a strategic relationship with Israel, is incongruous.

Opinion | India's Classroom Crisis: Why Your Teacher Is So Clueless About Everything

I've spent the past month in my ancestral village, setting up a dream project. What I've encountered here, once again, is a paradoxical crisis - an education system so hollowed out that hope and despair now coexist in equal measure.