Opinion

Opinion | Growth Is Good. Greed For 10% Is Better

In 1960, the average Japanese citizen earned $519 a year. The average South Korean earned $159 - poorer, per head, than much of sub-Saharan Africa. In 1978, the average Chinese citizen earned $157. None of that is a typo. All three economies that are now held up as growth models in India and emerging economies started from poverty. India left po...

Opinion | Is The Opposition Really A 'Naraaz Fufa'?

Politics, like Indian family gatherings, has its customary characters. There is the enthusiastic cousin, the know-it-all uncle, and, occasionally, the eternally displeased uncle who asks, "But why is this necessary?" Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now given this familiar Indian family character a political identity - the 'naraaz fufa' (Fufaji ...

Opinion | US Can Threaten, Not Dictate: What India's Iran Message Really Means

If India's Bishkek message was a signal to the US, then Pezeshkian's arrival in New Delhi for BRICS will be a defining note: that India's strategic autonomy is not up for debate

Opinion | For Years, Azerbaijan Backed Pak, Snubbed India. Now Comes The U-Turn

Azerbaijan, which had until recently been condemning India's Operation Sindoor and even allowing Kashmir Day events by the Pakistan Embassy, is now slowly rethinking its ties. But why?

Opinion | The Insider's Warning: Why Anthropic Researcher's Resignation Is Big

AI's builders have a problem: everyone fears what happens if they stop, and everyone fears what happens if they don't

Non-Veg Is Not A Treat During Durga Puja. In Bengal, It Is Bhog

In Bengal, Maa Durga does not come as a guest who must be wrapped in holiness. She comes as a daughter returning to her father's house.

Blog | Rakesh Mehta: A Life Spent Building Delhi, A Death No One Saw Coming

Rakesh Mehta was no ordinary bureaucrat. He was a treasure trove of ideas, constantly thinking of solutions to the problems Delhi faced.

Blog | I Lived In Satya Niketan. And I Was Too Young To See What It Did To Us

Sparking switches, falling ceilings, cardboard-partitioned rooms. Satya Niketan had been crumbling for years. I just didn't know when it would collapse.

Opinion | A New 'Subsea Cable' Is Coming To India. But It's A Wake-Up Call For Something

Backed by some of the biggest names in tech - Microsoft, Singapore's Singtel, Tata Communications, and Japan's NEC - the 'I-2SEA' will carry high-speed data traffic that AI systems need to function

Opinion | India Faces A BRICS Challenge. Can It Find A Way Through?

The Delhi Summit is being held at a challenging time. Such circumstances have not been encountered since the BRICS Summits started in 2009 in Russia

Blog | Every Tech Bro Loves His Movable AGI Goalpost

On September 7, Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, announced that artificial general intelligence, or 'AGI', had arrived. The occasion was OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, trained on a "modest" cluster of more than one lakh NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs. Then came the real news: 4 lakh more NVIDIA GPUs, each with the computing power of hundreds of high-end computers,...

Opinion | India And The New Economics of Uncertainty

For much of the past three decades, the global economy operated on a relatively simple premise: greater economic integration would create greater prosperity. Supply chains stretched across borders, capital moved in search of efficiency, trade expanded and geopolitical differences were often managed in the interest of economic interdependence. Effic...

Opinion | Sachin Pilot's Long Wait Is Over. Can Congress Finally Use Him?

The grand old party is now betting that the man who turned 'waiting' into a virtue can deliver Punjab

Reporter's Diary: The Day A Building Fell And Delhi Watched In Horror

At least six people have lost their lives in the incident, while five others have been rescued. The search operation for those still feared trapped under the debris is underway at the site of the building collapse.

Opinion | Why The Jauhar Scene In Padmaavat Needs To Be Seen For What It Does

The practice of 'jauhar' was certainly abolished long ago. But that does not mean that it should be romanticised or glorified in mass culture.

Blog: How Mumbai's Dahi Handi Resonates Across Generations

Although gone are the days when I used to cover the Dahi Handi festival on the ground, I still visit some of the festive locations every year just for one simple reason - nostalgia. Yes, Dahi Handi makes me nostalgic. As a true blue Mumbaikar I have grown up watching and participating in this festival. Later on, when I became a TV journalist, I cov...

Rogue Agents No Longer A Theory. World Must Regulate Agentic AI Now

The world has now entered the age of agentic AI. Agentic AI refers to an ecosystem in which people deploy AI agents, small, specialised algorithms, to perform specific, defined activities.

When AI Agents Go Rogue: The Emerging Danger Of Autonomous Digital Actors

This transition from intelligence-as-a-service to agency-as-a-service promises enormous productivity but also creates a fundamentally new cybersecurity problem.

Reporter's Diary: 10 Days In Nepal And Stories That Never Reached The Camera

The scale of the devastation was terrifying from day one. Roads were washed away. Bridges were broken. Houses were replaced by debris.

Blog | Why You Should Care Whether Schrodinger's Cat Is Dead Or Alive

Imagine going on a romantic Alpine getaway and returning with the equation that runs the modern world. The only snag: nobody can quite agree on what it says about reality.