Opinion

India’s pride in the institutions that protect people’s rights is taking a battering. Groups of citizens have expressed their concern about the erosion of such institutions and the distort...

Dignity is rare in politics. But there can be the occasional exception. UddhavThackeray’s decision to resign as chief minister of Maharashtra after the Supreme Court did not object to the govern...

Alchemists believed that lead could be perfected into gold, that diseases could be cured, and that life could be prolonged through transmutation. The politician is also a kind of alchemist. Even thou...

The centennial year of Satyajit Ray’s birth — it has drawn to a close — was marked by what is elixir to the Bengali mind: nostalgia. Nostalgia need not be unproductive. In fact,...

Working in the media has not been easy for many journalists around the world in recent years. There are many reasons for this — from political polarisation to online trolling, from some media ou...

If ‘India first’ has to become the signature tune of the country’s foreign policy, then the Narendra Modi government has no reason to play easy with either Vladimir Putin’s Rus...

Golden yarn Sir — Storytelling is an art that not everyone can master. Deft storytellers often have a rich pool of life experiences to tap into. Perhaps this is why grandparents make the best s...

Human tragedy occurs in its own time, untouched by gyrations on the political trapeze. The deaths caused by this year’s floods in Assam are tragic enough; added to the loss of homes, crops, live...

Global summits are often as much about symbolism and messaging as they are about well-defined outcomes. Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended, virtually, a meeting with leaders of Brazil, R...

In September 2019, a research article crucially important for South Asia was published in Science under the title, “The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia” (Science, ...