Thursday, 04 December 2025
Thursday, 04 December 2025
By making his opposition seem blind and uncompromising, Rahul Gandhi has disengaged from the larger Congress family that sees the BJP as an opponent, and not a sinister, dark force
SWAPAN DASGUPTA
Students have all the tools of learning at hand and a super coach in the form of AI, around the clock. Therefore, it is crucial and urgent that teachers should reinvent themselves
DEVI KAR
Authentic democracy can be achieved with the institution of a set of constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental economic rights, on a par with the civil and political rights we already have
PRABHAT PATNAIK
It cannot be stated with certainty that this unsavoury episode will bring to an end the State’s urgency to play Big Brother. The architecture of privacy in India has been under sustained assault
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The scale of the bonded labour problem is borne out by international data. According to ILO, there are about 110 lakh people living in ‘modern slavery’ in India — the highest globally
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The couple tied the knot in an intimate ceremony on 1 December at the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore
