Opinion

Blog | Nana Patekar: The Voice That Spoke To Generations, From 'Prahaar' To 'Golmaal'

From Major Chauhan to Uday Shetty, Nana Patekar has left profound impact on generations of moviegoers. Here's a tribute to the versatile actor.

Transition, Not Tragedy: Decoupling Tech Careers From The H-1B Pipeline

The tech industry has a larger crisis of skills to deal with. The older skills are no longer relevant. And people with new skills are not being created fast enough to meet the demand.

Opinion | Washington's PERM Freeze Is A Warning Shot At India's Tech Model

PERM is the foundation of the employment-based green card.

Opinion | The Right To Be Heard: AI, Patriarchy And Women's Freedom

Digital spaces carry the inequalities of the societies that create them. Patriarchal expectations about how women should behave, dress and speak do not disappear when people go online.

Opinion | US Visa Shock: It's Time India Stopped Playing Nice With Trump's America

On Thursday, at a White House briefing, US Labour Secretary Keith Sonderling, with Vice President JD Vance beside him, suspended eight companies from the programme that lets American employers sponsor foreign workers for a green card. Four of them are India's largest IT firms. The announcement came on the day the commander of America's Pacific forc...

Opinion | The Quiet Majority For Human Rights

War, climate chaos, division, greed - look at any news outlet, and you might believe this defines our world. The laws of war are flouted. Peace is elusive. Authoritarianism feeds on division. Power is concentrated in the hands of a select few. But this is not the whole picture. Behind the headlines, there is another reality: quieter, less visible ...

Blog | Nana Patekar, And The Sharp, Lasting Sting Of His 'Plain-Speak'

"Subah ghar se niklo, bheed ka hissa bano..." Nana Patekar's characters often spoke with the bluntness of men who had little patience for pretence. Just like Nana himself.

Opinion | Pakistan's Saudi Pact Is Now Entering Dangerous Territory - As Expected

On October 5, the ministers of the pact's member states met in Riyadh for an emergency session and agreed to move to a 'practical implementation' of the defence commitments.

Opinion | How Prepared Is Mumbai To Prevent An October 7-Like Israel Terror Attack?

Most of the measures taken in the name of security after 26/11 have sadly been an eyewash.

Opinion | Autonomous Wingmen Could Be The Answer To Indian Air Force's Squeeze

India has used loitering munitions and one-way attack drones in some form since the 1990s, and their use has expanded sharply in recent years, most notably in last May's Operation Sindoor.

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...