Opinion

Melvin Durai It has become clear to me, partly through an incident involving two goats, that we are depriving many animals of something they would surely enjoy: public transportation. Like humans, animals love travelling. They love looking around at the wonders of the world, and...

Marina Zucker-Marques Almost every major global health emergency has exposed the same flaw in the international financial system. When disaster strikes, the institutions built to support af fected countries must scramble to raise money for relief funds. Twelve years ago, when the Ebola virus was...

By Santosh Kumar Mohapatra In his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has presented an ambitious vision of Viksit Bharat@2047, built around what he describes as “Shakti Ki Saptadhara”—manufacturing, agriculture and food processing, technology and innovation, Gati Shakti and logistics,...

By Ajit Ranade In his Independence Day address from the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an important announcement. He acknowledged that coaching classes have become a major financial burden on families, with parents fearing that a child who does not attend coaching will...

The sanctified cockroaches, an epithet given by a tall member of the judiciary, are rocking the country’s systems as a deep unemployment or disguised job situation engulfs. While the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-24 puts overall unemployment at around 3%, it reveals a much...

International criminal tribunals once focused on bringing defeated leaders, such as Serbia’s Slobodan Milošević and Liberia’s Charles Taylor, to justice. But the International Criminal Court has gone further, issuing arrest warrants for incumbent leaders—notably, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While...

By DK Giri The villagers in Arunachal Pradesh have lodged complaints that the PLA is taking their land inch-by-inch and even whisking away their livestock. People in Ladakh have been making similar complaints. The initial reaction of the Government of India is often denial, or...

By Chander Gupta I had been contemplating holidaying with my wife in a foreign country this summer, but we were feeling deterred by visa hassles and long-duration flights. Being in our sixties, we are inclined to take it easy. Both of us are having passports...

By Ian Buruma Anthony Fauci has had a long and distinguished career as an immunologist. But you wouldn't know that from his recent hearing before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Republican senators hurled gratuitous attacks on the former director of...

By Lee Jong-Wha Around the world, governments are again using the tools of industrial policy—subsidies, tax incentives, public finance, trade measures, and strategic regulation—to shape their economies. South Korea is no exception. President Lee Jae-myung’s government has launched an ambitious strategy to promote semiconductors, AI...