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Opinion | RSS’s Hindutva Test: How Mohan Bhagwat’s New York Speech Has Exposed Fault Lines On Both Left & Right
By trying to silence him, Bhagwat's opponents have ensured that his most inconvenient sentence, that Muslims b…
Opinion | Nailing The 'Statistical Lies' Of Subhash Garg On GDP
The 7.8% print is not an isolated instance. It follows a 7.7% GDP growth witnessed in FY26, which itself was a…
Opinion | Krishna In The Gulf: How Modi Made Temples Part Of India's Diplomacy
Hindu places of worship serve energy supply, remittances, trade targets and election messaging, all at once
BRICS+ is India’s opportunity to shape a multipolar world
India’s chairship attempts to prove that diversity need not mean division
Remembering Gloria Steinem: How India shaped a feminist icon
Gloria Steinem's formative experiences in India offer a window into the making of an icon of modern feminism.
From animal spirits to billionaire squabbles: what’s going on at the top of India’s industrial empires?
The country’s corporate majors seem rather too controversy ridden, from the Tata Group to the Ambani, Adani an…
Opinion | Decoding The Importance Of PM Modi’s Uranium Diplomacy In India’s Nuclear Energy Target
The equation is straightforward: secure the uranium, build the reactors, generate reliable clean power, reduce…
Opinion | Bharat’s Diplomatic Moment: From Strategic Autonomy To Civilisational Leadership
PM Modi’s engagement with Putin and Pezeshkian demonstrates why a confident Bharat must speak to every side, n…
Streaming platforms are starting to police AI-generated music: real audiophiles should be pleased
While platforms like Spotify earlier avoided making rules around music generated using AI, many music streamin…
Sanctions, strikes, stalemate: Trump tightens the noose, Iran refuses to blink
Unless Trump is persuaded to return to the negotiating table, this cycle of violence is bound to persist
Pakistan’s nuclear projection should worry Israel, America
Islamabad believes that it finally is getting its ‘Muslim bomb’ dream. This is bad news
From an impossibility theorem to an impossible trinity: what gets ruled out can also provoke thought
Be it Amartya Sen’s tackle of Arrow’s impossibility theorem on social choice or India’s fuzzy-logic position o…
Mint Quick Edit | Gold price slump: past the peak of its glitter or just a momentary loss of lustre?
A flare-up of war in West Asia has shaken oil, bond and other markets again, but, curiously, gold prices have …
Nature doesn’t understand politics: When China holds the data, others pay the price
Hydrological and glacial data needs to be dissociated from a security logic. There should not be any strategic…
Brics 2026: India’s blueprint for strengthening South-South cooperation
India’s Brics chairship offers an opportunity to strengthen South-South cooperation through inclusive and sust…
Why our actions needn’t reflect our inner posture—and the question worth asking in pursuit of inner peace
A person may hold a demanding office and be at peace with it, while another may give up everything and stay re…
LA for showbiz, NYC for finance: talent clusters still matter in a world shrunk by telecom connectivity
Technology may have made geography history, but not the value of talent pools. Places like New York City, Los …
India will lack ‘viksit’ attributes until its urban agglomerations offer world-class public goods
It’s hard to find any member of the Indian establishment who does not have at least one close family member re…
India’s Brics chairship in 2026 offers an opportunity to forge stronger ties that benefit all economies
The expanded Brics grouping brings together a vast pool of economic strengths that can be used to build mutual…
Sugar spike: this isn't the first time weak data and ad hoc policies are showing up in food prices
Sugarcane as an ethanol input has been on the decline. Blame sugar’s price upshoot on an overestimation of the…
Opinion | Jauhar Was Not Surrender, It Was Medieval Women Defying Their Invaders
It is easy to pick random historical nuggets and scream “patriarchy”, but the reality of the jawhar tradition …
Opinion | How Myanmar’s Crystal Meth Is Upsetting India’s Strategic Calculus
The northeastern states of Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland are facing acute frontline exposure to a surge in ill…
‘Fitna al-Hindustan’: Pakistan’s new narrative to turn Baloch insurgency into an Indian conspiracy
Pakistan has accused India of involvement in Balochistan for years. The difference now is the institutionalisa…
Opinion | Why A Former Finance Secretary’s ‘GDP Manipulation’ Narrative Doesn’t Add Up
Subhash Chandra Garg said India’s 7.8% GDP growth was inflated by marking down last year’s base, but a statist…
The Indus Waters Treaty: India will not back down
The only way India-Pakistan relations can be normalised, which would include a new water-sharing arrangement, …
Zee case curiosity: Why personal guarantees for loans taken by firms face the arclights again
India’s track record of recovering dues based on personal guarantees for corporate loans has been dismal so fa…
Mint Quick Edit | RBI’s dollar deposit window worked wonders—but let’s be thankful it’s shut now
The Reserve Bank of India’s swap scheme for forex deposits has been a dramatic success, going by the huge sum …
Opinion | Manu And Moral Presentism: The Safest Book To Hate In India
The real test of progress is not how loudly we condemn a book that nobody follows, but whether we are willing …
Iran built its proxies, now it can’t control them
Tehran built the Axis to wage conflict without always bearing its direct costs. But armed outfits do not remai…
India's insolvency framework must adapt to AI: here are some potential grey areas to think about
Artificial intelligence (AI) is here and India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) needs to catch up. The a…
India’s real productivity drain is the meeting after the meeting
The biggest drain on workplace productivity may not be meetings themselves, but the work required to reconstru…
Lesson from Nepal: the world shouldn’t have turned its back on hydro power projects with reservoirs
The Narmada case and many others gave big dam projects a bad rap and shifted attention to run-of-river hydro p…
Ease of doing business: India should view the World Bank's recrafted survey as a mirror, not a verdict
A strong Indian showing in the redesigned survey would be worth more than the World Bank's earlier assessments…
Delhi Brics summit: Can the elephant and the dragon dance together?
With Donald Trump rattling both New Delhi and Beijing, the Brics summit could reveal whether India and China a…
China’s Tibet mega dam: India’s concerns should go beyond a ‘water weapon’
The real threat from China’s mega dam in Tibet is not Beijing turning off the Brahmaputra’s tap, but what happ…
Short-term dollar pressures should not distract India from the need to diversify its forex holdings
Even the central banks of US allies are diversifying away from the dollar. Notably, US debt is no longer risk …
Why fewer state-run schools does not signal neglect of education: it’s learning that matters
India’s progress on schooling can’t be measured by its school count. Narratives of public education being negl…
The next startup revolution is already happening in rural India
Bharat’s next generation of founders will not be raised in glass office towers. They will be raised in distric…
Apple's new CEO has a cash pile handy. But the global AI race looks set to test its innovative core
Apple Inc’s robust finances and mass-market presence grant its new CEO John Ternus plenty of strategic space t…
Mint Quick Edit | India’s investment uptick—an all-engine economic growth run in the making?
Last quarter’s gross fixed capital formation data suggests a boom-level 35% of GDP may be within reach. That’s…