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Manish Tewari | Will Saudi-Pak Pact Add Fuel To West Asia Fire?

Manish Tewari | Will Saudi-Pak Pact Add Fuel To West Asia Fire?

At its core, this pact seems to be a reaction to Israel’s audacious strike on Doha targeting Hamas leadership. It is...

5 Oct 2025 12:22 AM IST

M.P. Nathanael | As the March 2026 Deadline Looms, Is Maoist Menace On The Wane In India?

M.P. Nathanael | As the March 2026 Deadline Looms, Is Maoist Menace On...

After their displacement from their Karregutta forest base in Abhujmarh in April 2025, in which they suffered heavy...

5 Oct 2025 12:03 AM IST

Shobhaa De | What A Disgrace! Going From Gully Cricket to Gaalis Kirkit

Shobhaa De | What A Disgrace! Going From Gully Cricket to Gaalis...

The team had legitimate grounds -- Mr Naqvi is also the interior minister of Pakistan, besides being the head of the...

4 Oct 2025 12:24 AM IST

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | UK Labour Battles Reform Challenge, Drive To Spew Hate Over Immigration | Farrukh Dhondy

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS | UK Labour Battles Reform Challenge, Drive To...

So, at the recent rally called by the openly-racist, criminal demagogue Tommy Robinson, his followers carried Christian...

4 Oct 2025 12:03 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Axe Falls On Secy For Dark Screen at PM Rally; What About Taxpayer?

Dilip Cherian | Axe Falls On Secy For Dark Screen at PM Rally; What...

The irony writes itself. A glitch that inconveniences a Prime Minister for ten minutes is career-ending; glitches that...

2 Oct 2025 1:12 AM IST

Syed Ata Hasnain | The Age of Backlash: Why Gen Z Angry, World Uneasy

Syed Ata Hasnain | The Age of Backlash: Why Gen Z Angry, World Uneasy

What we are witnessing today is not the wholesale rejection of globalisation, but a deep backlash against its...

2 Oct 2025 1:02 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | The Politics Of Protest: Why Wangchuk Arrest Is A Blunder

Shikha Mukerjee | The Politics Of Protest: Why Wangchuk Arrest Is A...

Fighting politics with the State’s coercive machinery, as determined by the government, is a classic reaction of...

1 Oct 2025 1:00 AM IST

John J. Kennedy | UGC’s Curricular Framework Is Not Reform, It’s Really A Regressive Step

John J. Kennedy | UGC’s Curricular Framework Is Not Reform, It’s...

The draft framework, and the state-level debates it has already triggered, lay bare a troubling pattern. Courses across...

1 Oct 2025 12:47 AM IST

Aakar Patel | The New New India: Kicked Around by America and China, Adrift in The World

Aakar Patel | The New New India: Kicked Around by America and China,...

Starting with our neighbourhood, I can report that relations with Pakistan are bad. In fact, we might still be at “war”...

29 Sept 2025 10:53 PM IST

Dev 360 | Does India Need A Rethink Of Its Talent Strategy Now? | Patralekha Chatterjee

Dev 360 | Does India Need A Rethink Of Its Talent Strategy Now? |...

In the global race for talent, timing is everything. Just as the Trump administration slaps a $100,000 fee on new H-1B...

29 Sept 2025 10:39 PM IST

Sanjaya Baru | Trust is Gone in India’s Relations With America

Sanjaya Baru | Trust is Gone in India’s Relations With America

The Indian pharmaceutical companies that were not prepared for US President Donald Trump’s latest action of imposing...

28 Sept 2025 11:02 PM IST

Saeed Naqvi | West Will Lose Its Power, But Will Leave Huge Mess Before Giving Up

Saeed Naqvi | West Will Lose Its Power, But Will Leave Huge Mess...

President James Monroe must have turned in his grave as the Monroe Doctrine, named after him, is desecrated by outside...

28 Sept 2025 10:53 PM IST