Opinion

Opinion | US' Visa Policies May End Up Backfiring On Its Own Tech Industry

The Trump administration's decision to suspend several major technology companies from the US Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) programme marks another consequential turn in Washington's increasingly restrictive approach to skilled immigration. The inclusion of Indian IT majors such as Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro, and HCL Tec...

Opinion | Rahul Gandhi Has Found The Streets Again. And The BJP, An Unexpected 'Opening'

In the last few days, the grand old party of India seems to have finally stumbled on the fact that the beating heart of India is not the granite of the new Parliament - it's the sand of the streets and bylanes. The viral videos of two days of Congress protests, the Rahul-Priyanka brother-sister duo down on the streets, eating meals on the footpa...

Opinion | The US Is Showing India Just How Cheap Its 'Friendship' Is

Can local talent fully replace Indian contribution? Why is the US leading in setting up Global Capability Centres in India - over 60% - and pocketing the IP?

Opinion | Marine Engines: Why India Must Own The Power Behind The Platform

India's warship-building story is progressively one of indigenous design, construction, and systems integration. But an uncomfortable contradiction lies at the heart of this progress: India can build sophisticated warships, yet remains dependent on foreign sources for some of the most critical machinery that actually makes those ships move - marine...

Opinion | Saudi Airport Attack, And Why Pakistan Keeps Biting Off More Than It Can Chew

For all those who were envious of Pakistan's 'new status' as "mediator extraordinaire", here is a reality check

Opinion| If Ram Manohar Lohia Met Gen Z Today

Ram Manohar Lohia once remarked, "Log meri baat sunenge jarur, lekin mere marne ke baad" (People will certainly listen to me, but only after my death). If Lohia were alive today, he might find that Gen Z has, in some curious and unintended ways, begun listening to him.  Ram Manohar Lohia lived without a bank account and without a home of hi...

Opinion | Congress' New Electoral Formula In Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh has always been the ultimate test of political arithmetic. For any opposition formation hoping to challenge the BJP in the state, the question is not merely whether individual parties have pockets of influence. It is whether their votes can be combined without their organisations, ambitions and social coalitions pulling in different d...

Opinion | Visa Shocks To Racist Attacks, When Did America Come To Hate Indians So?

Sometimes it is about H-1B visas. Sometimes it is jobs. Sometimes it is "foreigners." Sometimes it is about temples. The language of the attack varies, but the message is consistent

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.