Opinion

Opinion | 84 Years After Quit India Movement, The Nation We Must Still Build

The collective spirit of 1942 cannot remain locked in the past

Opinion | 10 Years Of Losses, One Historic IPO: How China Built A $488 Billion Chip Miracle

Why India should learn from the story of CXMT, the cornerstone of China's chip success and now the most valuable company listed on the mainland.

Opinion | Age Of The Pink Slip: India's Brutal IT Layoffs Are No Longer About Cost-Cutting

The four biggest IT firms, TCS, Infosys, HCLTech, and Wipro, removed a net 9,100 people in the April-June quarter this year. A year earlier, in the same quarter, they had added 22,622.

Opinion | From Punjab To Karnataka, Congress Just Can't Stop Hitting Self-Goals

Congress leaders often speak as though anti-incumbency is a natural resource that will eventually flow towards them. But it doesn't.

Opinion | From Kathmandu, With Care: Lessons For India From Nepal's Gen Z Movement

Some argue that India's situation is incomparable to that of Nepal. True, but not entirely.

Opinion | The Story Of 'SH-15', Pakistan's New Chinese Guns, Now Along India's Borders

Pakistan has reportedly deployed nearly 250 Chinese-made SH-15 wheeled self-propelled howitzers along sectors facing India.

Opinion | Who Controls The Conversation? Meta, Algorithmic Power And India's Democracy

India deserves clear answers. Parliament deserves full disclosure. And citizens deserve confidence that the nation's democratic conversation is being shaped by the people, not by opaque algorithms operating behind closed doors.

Opinion | Bankipur, And Why The Most Dangerous Voter Is The One Who Thinks Again

Bankipur is like the NOIDA of Uttar Pradesh. Its voter list isn't like the rest of Bihar. Which is why one must be careful in declaring Kishor's win a phenomenon - yet. But then, there's the power of the voter...

Opinion | Vijay's Udhayanidhi Arrest May Not Be A 'Blunder' After All

The arrest saga was Vijay borrowing a leaf from the Jayalalithaa handbook.

Opinion | What The US-Iran Conflict Reveals About the Future of Warfare

If the current Iran conflict leaves one enduring strategic lesson, it is this: the age of total war has given way to an era of constrained, multidomain competition.

Opinion | Prashant Kishor May Just Be Playing Two Games At Once In Bihar

The Jan Suraaj is neither a 'BJP-lite' option for disaffected upper-caste voters, nor is it an RJD alternative for Muslims. It is, in fact, both things at once, in the same seat, in the same election.

Opinion | PoK's Dissent: A Demand For Bread, Answered With A Bullet

The difference between the two Kashmirs, seven years after the moment that is supposed to separate them, is not a difference of degree.

Opinion | Inside The Cabinet Drama That Has Shaken The Congress In Karnataka

Siddaramaiah's decision to 'boycott' the swearing-in ceremony because of a perceived 'insult' is a story in itself.

Opinion | The Panic In Rawalpindi: Why Pakistani Generals Suddenly Sound So Afraid

Lectures on governance and usual accusations against India aside, the truth is that Pakistani generals are fast losing their grip on the country.

Opinion | Bankipur Is Prashant Kishor's Stinging Comeback. But It Is Also The End Of His 'Excuse'

Kishor's ideological flexibility helped make him a successful strategist, but it remains a political vulnerability.

Ahmedabad 2030 Isn't Just About Commonwealth Games, It's India's Olympic Audition

Ahmedabad will host the 2030 Commonwealth Games, exactly a century after the event first began in Hamilton, Canada. India hosted once before, in Delhi in 2010

Opinion | Kangana Ranaut Is Fast Running Out Of Enemies To Pick On

Kangana spent years cultivating the image of the 'lupa', the lone she-wolf who survived without a pack. But rebellion, once rewarded, can quickly become an addiction.

Opinion | 17 Dead, 166 Trapped: How Indian Seafarers Became 'Collateral' In Others' Wars

India is now the second-largest supplier of seafarers in the world, contributing 311,936 personnel. But that also means that they are among the easiest targets during war.

Demography Awaits Dividend: BRIC By Brick, India Built Growth But Not Jobs

Twenty-five years, five governments and several hundred investment summits later, demography is waiting for politics to propel the promise.

Opinion | World's Biggest Military Now Has A Supply Problem. Inside US' Weapons Crisis

For the first time in decades, America is facing an existential question: not whether it can continue to fight multiple wars, but whether it has enough weapons left to do so.