Opinion

Opinion | Is The World Staring At A Big Stock Market Crash - And Recession? 5 Uneasy Signs

On Wednesday, the US bond market recorded its worst day since Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs rattled markets in April 2025. The 30-year US Treasury yield topped 5.43%, putting it on track for its highest close since 2004.

Opinion | Saudi Arabia's China Turn Has Begun - After Learning Much The Hard Way

Leaning on China just makes sense for the Saudis right now. The question is, can its other great 'ally' stomach it?

Blog: 20 Years On, My LSR Memories Of Harassment Have Not Faded

If our answer to unsafe streets is to ask women to stop using them, we haven't solved the safety problem.

Opinion | Bihar Assault, Hisar Marriage Ban: Who'll Stop The Guardians Of Indian 'Culture'?

Why exactly does the sight of a young couple seeking a bit of alone time somewhere tend to particularly provoke a certain kind of Indian men?

Opinion: LSR, Astha Kunj And The Unfinished Fight For Women's Right To Public Spaces

Last year, five young women from the Cities for Youth Programme in Ajmer decided to set up Apno Thiyo, pop-up chai stops, not just to serve tea, but to create a safe, open, and public space for women to gather and chat. "It was a case of making women visible over something as simple and basic as hanging out over a cup of tea, an image we usually...

Opinion | The Trump-Xi Summit, And India's Many Worries Of Its Own

Washington and Beijing may have chosen coexistence over confrontation. For India, that could be both a relief and a warning.

Opinion | IIT Suicide Case, And Why India's Brightest Students Feel So Trapped

Every tragedy produces an instinct to act, and the quickest action is almost always the most visible one. When a young person dies on a campus, administrators reach for what can be removed, locked or punished. Fixtures come out of hostel rooms. Terraces are sealed. Disciplinary committees convene. These steps answer the question of how a student di...

Opinion | China Claims It Has Cut Troops At The Indian Border. But The Math Doesn't Add Up

The reduction likely has more to do with the deployment along the LAC than the total strength active in the region

Opinion | China Is No Longer Waiting For Trump To Set The Rules. And He Knows It

America's old diplomatic tricks with China won't work any longer. Because China has changed, and so has its ambitions.

Opinion | The AI Revolution: Why Humanity Should Not Be Afraid to Move Forward

There is growing unease about the speed at which artificial intelligence is developing. Some of the world's most influential technology leaders and thinkers, from Bill Gates and Elon Musk to Yuval Noah Harari and leading figures in the AI industry, have warned that humanity needs greater caution, stronger safeguards and, in some circumstances, a pa...

The Conversation India Is Starting To Have About Childhood

Indian preschoolers average 2.7 hours of screen time - far above paediatric guidelines. The Bachpan Manao campaign calls for a simple shift: less screen, more play

Opinion | As UN Interviews Its Next Chief, The Interviewers Have Some Explaining To Do

On the panel sit governments whose wars, vetoes, and unpaid dues have helped make the organisation ineffective.

Opinion | Trump-Xi Meet: What China Can Give America, And What India Could Lose

If Trump can secure some of what he wants directly from Beijing, India's immediate value to Washington could change in particular areas.

Opinion | National Or Regional Parties - Who Really Stands To Gain From Simultaneous Polls?

The idea of holding Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections together - popularly called "One Nation, One Election" (ONOE) - is back at the centre of India's political agenda. The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) examining the Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill, 2024, has been holding consultations across states, with its chairman PP Chaudhary cl...

Opinion | 'Blackmail' Diplomacy: Why India Can't Be A Pawn In US' War On Russia

The new sanctions bill is both blackmail and hypocritical: blackmail because it seeks to change India's principled stand, and hypocritical because the US has provided exemptions to others, and itself.

Blog | Katrina Kaif, And The Very Indian Problem Of Too Much 'Audacity'

The remarkable thing about many Indian trolls is not that they have opinions, but that they expect - get this, Katrina Kaif, no less - to care about them.

The Big Screen's Second Act: Why The Premature Obituary Of Television Misses The Bigger Story

For more than a decade, television has been living under a death sentence. Smartphones have become ubiquitous, streaming has moved into the mainstream, audiences have fragmented, and advertising expenditure has migrated towards digital media. More recently, 'cord-cutting' has appeared to provide the final nail in television's coffin. There is on...

Opinion: Whoever Wins In Court, Tata Has Already Lost Something

Two stories are being told about what Tata stands for, and only one of them can survive.

Rahul Gandhi's Chhatron Ki Goonj Meets Reality At Delhi University Students Union Polls

Until four days prior, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) had been fighting its toughest student union election since 2012 across both the North and South campuses

Narendra Modi@25: Disrupt, Deliver, Dominate

There is a trend of sorts in Indian families to celebrate milestone birthdays, anniversaries, and occasions. The 25th straight year in public life as an administrator is something certainly worth celebrating for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But sometimes these milestone moments are also an occasion for us to trace back the journey to where it star...