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Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | A Melody That Knows No Borders

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | A Melody That Knows No Borders

We’ve all met Balu. We will continue meeting him. Into our old age. Irrespective of which part of India (or the world)...

14 Dec 2025 12:48 AM IST

John J. Kennedy | Beyond American Dreams: Indians Doing A Rethink On Study Abroad Plan

John J. Kennedy | Beyond American Dreams: Indians Doing A Rethink On...

Over the last couple of years, that assumption has begun to crumble under the weight of policy unpredictability, lengthy...

14 Dec 2025 12:31 AM IST

Shobhaa De | Is It Time To Change Branding of IndiGo to ‘Indi: GoToHell’?

Shobhaa De | Is It Time To Change Branding of IndiGo to ‘Indi:...

Airline blamed for arrogance and mismanagement as stranded fliers endure turmoil

12 Dec 2025 9:20 PM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Why, As the World Goes Crazy Over AI, It’s Best To Take It With a Pinch of Salt

Farrukh Dhondy | Why, As the World Goes Crazy Over AI, It’s Best To...

AI grows smarter, but risks rise with misinformation and engineered deceit

12 Dec 2025 8:38 PM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Monopoly In Skies Sets Off Flight Trauma For Indians

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Monopoly In Skies Sets Off Flight Trauma For...

The present crisis created by the management of IndiGo isn’t just extremely despicable, but the issue deserves to be...

11 Dec 2025 11:18 PM IST

Dilip Cherian | After Aviation Chaos, Should Generalists Still Run Our Skies?

Dilip Cherian | After Aviation Chaos, Should Generalists Still Run Our...

The IndiGo row lays bare a system where aviation grows fast but oversight stays shallow.

10 Dec 2025 8:06 PM IST

Banks received 3 trillion rupees ($44.4 billion) of 500- and 1,000-rupee notes over the last four days.

Patralekha Chatterjee | India: As Rupee Falls, Aspirations Crashing

A depreciating rupee is eroding household budgets long before prices show it

10 Dec 2025 7:39 PM IST

Anita Anand | Do We Work to Live or Live to Work? Do Longer Hours Raise Our Productivity?

Anita Anand | Do We Work to Live or Live to Work? Do Longer Hours...

A couple of years ago, a statement by Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy advocating a 70-hour workweek had led to a...

10 Dec 2025 12:29 AM IST

As climate change plays out and we see more frequent extreme weather and floods, how communities respond to those events may predict how resilient they become and how they will recover. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | As Global Climate Deal Sinks, India, China...

It is unrealistic to think that the issue of global climate change should be decided on science-based empirical evidence...

10 Dec 2025 12:20 AM IST

Charudutta Panigrahi | Will Odisha Pharma Summit 2025 Be a Defining Moment for Eastern India?

Charudutta Panigrahi | Will Odisha Pharma Summit 2025 Be a Defining...

With big job targets and investment plans, Odisha seeks to join India’s pharma growth story

9 Dec 2025 7:50 PM IST

Aakar Patel | How The Ayodhya Frenzy By Advani Transformed India, Put BJP In Power

Aakar Patel | How The Ayodhya Frenzy By Advani Transformed India, Put...

In February 1989, at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, the VHP said it would lay the foundation stone for the temple in...

9 Dec 2025 12:24 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | India-Russia Legacy Ties: Strategic Autonomy 3.0?

Shikha Mukerjee | India-Russia Legacy Ties: Strategic Autonomy 3.0?

It is also not to argue that the visits planned for the arrival of teams from the European Union are not equally...

8 Dec 2025 11:58 PM IST