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Manu Joseph: Those of us who know how to live have no place to live in the country
It seems all but impossible to find a liveable place to settle within the country. It is almost as if ‘develop…
The viral elephant video may be old, but the empathy it inspires is real
Animal videos on social media have the power to turn compassion into a powerful force for conservation
Elon Musk and Yuval Noah Harari's views on AI diverge but converge on a common question
While they differ on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI), both the tech entrepreneur and historian agre…
Behind Xi’s swagger lies urgency: Why Delhi must bargain hard with Beijing
If Xi Jinping comes to Delhi next month, Bharat must talk from a position of strength; China may be more willi…
Mental healthcare system: When the cure becomes the burden
Psychiatry may suppress symptoms, but what if the treatment begins to reshape the life it is meant to restore?
Opinion | 100 Days Of Suvendu Sarkar: Carrots And Sticks Fly At Breathless Speed
West Bengal under Suvendu Adhikari is taking up policy reforms and ground action almost daily. Something that …
Opinion | Why Penguin’s ‘Random’ Decision On Sonia Gandhi’s Memoir Makes No Sense
Her political journey has perhaps only one parallel worldwide; whatever she says in the book, it is bound to s…
Bangladesh’s Islamist drift: India needs a new Dhaka strategy
Bangladesh is overplaying its hand; India needs both carrot and stick to deal with the rising current
Mark Carney’s high-stakes gambit: why Canada walked out on US trade talks and doubled down on retaliatory levies
Canada has exited trade negotiations with US and launched dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs, marking a sha…
JudgeGPT: AI has entered active justice delivery
The success of JudgeGPT should not be measured by how much technology a court deploys. It should be measured b…
Prafulla Chandra Ray: The chemist who refused to stay in the lab
Prafulla Chandra Ray believed scientific freedom meant more than producing knowledge. He wanted Indians to man…
Claude’s invisible mark is causing visible upset
Now that we have AI to work with, why do we need to keep it a secret?
Opinion | The Opposition’s Cockroach Lesson: What Shashi Tharoor Misses From The Right
India’s political right has already built the ecosystem of participation that the Opposition is now discoverin…
Exorbitant privilege: how dollar dominance deployed for statecraft could extract a diplomatic price
Amid a geopolitical upheaval, America seems ever more keen to use its financial heft, never mind that the doll…
Dangerous mismatch: catastrophes are accelerating while climate action moves at a glacial pace
The role of climate change in the deadly flash flood that swept through Nepal can’t be dismissed. Even as a wa…
Beyond the sky: Why India needs a unified space command for the wars of tomorrow
With rival powers integrating space into military strategy, India can no longer afford a fragmented command ar…
India-China consensus signals positive momentum, but don’t overstate its importance
Both sides should thank Donald Trump for providing compelling structural incentives to stabilise bilateral tie…
Why has Gen Z ignored Afghanistan’s oppressed women and girls?
A combination of indoctrination and suppression seems to ward off Gen Z activism
India must stiffen its packaging rules—but at what level of health risk are big loud warnings justified?
The country's lax labelling of packages has provoked calls for boldface health warnings. While the rules clear…
Mint Quick Edit | Digital toss up: why the evolution of virtual money is loaded in favour of the e-rupee
While India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been a resounding success, it’s still crypto that holds cur…
Opinion | The Quiet Science Of Trying Again: What Children Learn When The First Attempt Fails
Young children need adults who can judge when to intervene, what kind of help to provide and when to step back
A disaster foretold: Nepal knew flood risks, but failed to prepare
The flood is the second major disaster to strike the same stretch of river in just over a year
Tourist or traveller? Bali doesn’t make too much of binaries and that’s part of its charm as a destination
Visitors from various countries often make Bali feel like its attractions are under siege from a non-violent i…
Head-on | Why war and debt are fatal for empires
Britain had WWII, Soviet Union had Afghanistan; will Iran be America’s imperial turning point?
Opinion | Why Rahul Gandhi’s Gen-Z Outreach Looks Like Disguised Hinduphobia
Gen Z should ask the Gandhi siblings a more fundamental question: Why is the standard of freedom, reform and r…
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens only signals the chatbot maker’s acceptance of a major problem
ChatGPT for Teens, aimed at kids aged 13 to 17, restricts harmful content but doesn’t resolve a crisis of chil…
Operation Sindoor: When India turned deterrence into ‘total dominance’
First the Independence Day documentary, and now the ex-CDS’s statement have set the record straight on Operati…
Gated recessions: multitudes could suffer while the rich grow richer and macro indicators mask hard times
Lower-middle-class households in India may effectively be caught in a ‘gated recession.’ Trying to halt AI job…
Ukraine’s drone attacks have left Russia desperately scrambling for oil imports
The once world-leading producer of crude oil has plunged into an energy crisis as Kyiv targets its refineries …
Opinion | Bangladesh And The Mecca Pact: Strategic Autonomy Before Military Alignment
Bangladesh should judge Mecca Pact against a clear national-interest standard: demonstrable security gains, li…
BRICS summit: India’s test of leadership in a divided world
As BRICS marks two decades, its Delhi summit will focus on practical cooperation amid growing geopolitical and…
The university must become a place of self-discovery, intellectual engagement and exploration
Universities must break down traditional pedagogies so that students experiment with skills and become problem…
Anti-canons of taxation: place the economy's interests above the government’s convenience
For the sake of better outcomes, taxation mustn’t aim to maximize revenue. Rather, policymakers must assess th…
India’s new China policy: Engage Beijing, but don’t trust it
India and China are talking again; this time, trust need not be the destination for dialogue to be useful
Central banks are scouting for a new paradigm of public engagement as part of their policy toolkit
Extreme uncertainty amid global flux has put central banks in a dilemma over their use of words as a strategic…
Mint Quick Edit | Who controls the energy world’s most famous chokepoint? What oil prices say
Crude oil market prices have fallen in recent days. News of America’s latest effort to isolate Iran’s economy …
Caste census or not, AI systems have already learnt enough to slot Indians by this identity marker
While India debates its first caste count since independence, machine learners have already inferred enough fr…
Burnham's budget test: The UK's new PM will soon have to make hard choices
While Andy Burnham managed to rouse Britons during his run for leadership, he has begun to underplay cost-of-l…
Nouriel Roubini: What do higher bond yields augur for global stock markets and economic growth?
The common view is that an upshoot in yields is bad news. However, of the various factors driving these up, in…
The US versus China: tariffs can’t solve their trade gap but talks under the IMF’s aegis could help
Trade deficits and surpluses across the world reflect macro factors to a large extent, especially the US-China…