Opinion

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.

Opinion | India's Defence Deals Have A Serious Problem Nobody Talks About

For over 20 years, India believed that its defence deals would help nourish the domestic industry. Now, a parliamentary report suggests that never quite happened.

Opinion | Why Rahul Gandhi Keeps Making The Same 'Communication' Mistake

The Congress leader suffers from a strange paradox: always heard, but rarely followed.

Opinion | Why China's Latest 'Chip' Breakthrough Is Shaking The World

China was never supposed to get this far, the US tried to ensure that through its sanctions. Beijing, however, had other ideas.

Opinion | How Everything That Could Go Wrong Has Gone Wrong For The US In Iran

The Global South, which is the most vulnerable to the economic cost of high oil prices, is almost a mute spectator.

Opinion | What The Rawalakot Bloodshed Says About Pakistan And Its 'Azad Kashmir' Narrative

The images emerging from PoK are difficult to ignore: streets stained with blood, protesters lying motionless, grieving families searching for loved ones, and heavily armed security personnel confronting civilians.

Opinion | Social Justice, Electoral Math And Battle For UP's Upper Castes

The Cockroach Janta Party's protests at Jantar Mantar have wound down. But the national conversation they reignited - over social justice, equity and merit - hasn't gone anywhere. And Uttar Pradesh, heading into its consequential 2027 assembly election, may be the only state where that conversation collides directly with hard electoral arithmetic. ...

Opinion | India's Graduate Nightmare: Why The Brightest Youth Are Now The Most Unemployed

Who can blame Gen Z for their frustrations when over six in 10 youth in India are unemployed? According to data now, the more educated you are, the likelier you are to face joblessness.

Students Protest: 5 Lessons Delhi Police Can Learn From Mumbai Police

Last week in Delhi, there was widespread violence during the agitation led by the Cockroach Janata Party. Serious questions were also raised about the conduct of the Delhi Police during the protest. The police were accused of using force against students, which allegedly further inflamed the agitation. Could the Delhi Police have handled the moveme...

Opinion | Indian Political Parties Are Now Stuck In An Awkward Gen Z 'Situationship'

For Gen Z to say "Bet" or "No cap", there is a lot of homework ahead for political parties. 'Breadcrumbing' them just won't work.

Opinion | One Crisis, 4 Wins: How China Might Just Have Hit A Geopolitical Jackpot

Oil to yuan, China's fortunes have only multiplied, thanks to others. But why grudge it the advantages it has been handed almost on a platter?

Opinion | Gen Z Can Topple A Minister. Why Can't They Enter Parliament?

India's Gen Z can vote at 18, graduate soon afterwards, and even hold bureaucratic positions after 21. What they still can't do is contest elections before they turn 25.

Opinion | In An AI-Anchored World Order, Tech Capital Alone Can't Price Our Future

This is proof of a new revolution in technology-led capital investment that has caused the emergence of what is an AI-anchored world order.

'A Breaking Point': An Open Letter To Nandan Nilekani On How To Fix India's Exams

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor offers a radical blueprint to the man leading the Centre's exam reforms task force.

Opinion | Trump's Nuclear 'Gift' To Saudi Arabia Could Haunt Middle East For Years

Trump just signed a '123' deal with the Kingdom. For the Saudis, this could be a big win. But for the region, it can quickly become a source of uncontrolled chaos.

Opinion | One Resignation, 3 Headaches: The Bigger Politics Behind Dharmendra Pradhan's Exit

The minister's exit revives an old Congress-era tradition and hands the BJP a very contemporary problem to solve on the road to Uttar Pradesh.

Tech Platforms That Farm Rage With AI Fakes Cannot Claim Neutrality

Cheap to create, free to amplify. The first viral hour is when the damage is done

Opinion | The Great Pickaxe Challenge: Can Trump Really Destroy Iran's Most Guarded Nuclear Fortress?

If Fordow could not be destroyed, the facility at Pickaxe is deeper, more concealed, and with added layers of concrete.

Opinion | 11 Years Later, Houthis Have Returned To Finish Unfinished Business With Pakistan

Pakistan has been here before, and the last time, it barely escaped.