As India celebrates twelve years under the leadership Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, it is impossible not to marvel at the sheer scale of transformation India has gone through in these twelve years. T ...
Read moreThis article is not about the political realm; we may talk about it at some other time. This is about the even more explosive subject of religion and religious ideology. First, a word of caution about ...
Read moreThere was a time in the Indian middle class when marriage was less a celebration of romance and more a refuge against life’s uncertainties. Happiness was desirable, but stability was essential. Love ...
Read moreOne of the quiet ironies of modern life is that happiness has become something we work very hard at. We read about it, plan for it, optimise routines around it, and measure ourselves against ideals of ...
Read moreSchools in India may teach computer science but they do not teach a few things, the absence of which leads to racism against Indians abroad. Unless schools pull up their socks and start teaching this ...
Read more"India keeps reading its governance failures as a problem of bad people. The real driver is a structural condition that makes good officials afraid to decide — and it can be fixed."A protest that be ...
Read moreThe renewed Iran conflict and the aggressive expansion of the Abraham Accords by former U.S. President Donald Trump have once again placed the Middle East at the centre of global geopolitics. Trump’ ...
Read moreExpecting an alien culture, that believes in its superiority, to assimilate over all others would be a vain ambition. Europe did harbour this ambition during the latter part of the 20th century. Faced ...
Read morePublic discourse in India has an unfortunate tendency to become trapped inside metaphors while quietly ignoring realities. A recent remark comparing unemployed youth to “cockroaches” has generated ...
Read moreCandid comments at the 19th May G7 finance ministers’ meet and the immediate angry response of China about the deleterious effect of China’s overcapacity and dumping products at ridiculously low p ...
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