Opinion

Blog | I Lost My Entire Family In Kanishka Bombing. 41 Years Later, Canada Wants The Case Closed

We made the trek through tragedy to search for people in Cork, where I spent 25 days sifting through bodies and body parts in a makeshift morgue to identify our loved ones.

Opinion | Pak's Drone Deal With A US Firm Is No Windfall. But India Must Still Be Worried

American military aid to Pakistan has remained suspended since January 2018, during Trump's first term, but a commercial arms sale is separate from this arrangement.

Opinion | Saudi Arabia's Yemen Nightmare Has Come Back To Haunt It

After years of costly military intervention beginning in 2015, Saudi Arabia increasingly sought to stabilise its southern border. All that is unravelling fast now

Opinion | 6 AI Incidents, One Pattern: AI Has Started Lying To Us - And Hiding The Evidence

Concealing errors. Making up data. Pushing files onto the public web on their own initiative. The machines are learning to lie - and lie well.

Opinion | Trump, Suprisingly, Is Right This Time About Both China And AI

For me, admittedly a layman but someone who has been closely following the progress of AI for some years, I find myself broadly agreeing with President Donald Trump on one part of the AI debate, even though I have been dismayed by many of his actions on the global stage since his return to power. My agreement comes with a caveat, which I will co...

Opinion | US Has Institutionally Weaponised India's Russia Oil Dependence. Can New Delhi Cope?

A new legislation can connect India's Russian energy purchases to its access to the American market over a five-year period

Opinion | Saudi Allies Are Now Discovering The Cost Of 'Commitment' - And Not Liking It

The spectacular no-show by Saudi Arabia's two defence allies - Pakistan, a nuclear power, and Turkey, which has NATO's second-largest army - is astounding

Opinion | PM Modi: 2 Promises To His Mother, And A Lifetime Pledged To Bharat

In Bharat, a mother's word is a child's first constitution. An oath is sworn in a moment. A promise to a mother is kept for a lifetime. That takes character. The 2001 earthquake broke Bhuj. Gujarat lay in rubble. Duty called a karyakarta. Before taking charge, he went first to his mother. She knew little of his work, she told him, and sought onl...

Blog | I'm A Woman Motorcyclist, And I Refuse To Be Told Where I Belong

Last Sunday, I was riding on the same Gurugram roads where, elsewhere, a young woman on a motorcycle was being chased and then was allegedly rammed by a car. The incident involving Sia has disturbed me deeply. Not only because she was a woman riding a motorcycle, but because it could have been any one of us. It could have been me. It could have ...

Opinion | How A Tiny 0.4% UPI Fee Could Change How India Pays

The introduction of a fee can have a psychological effect beyond its immediate financial cost. Businesses that have come to view digital payments as free may begin to look for alternative - split payments, cash, and so on

Opinion | Rs 75-Lakh Bounty, New Jaish Base, And The Case Of Pak's Ever-Missing' Terrorist

Pak's yearly act is back: finding Masood Azhar. But there are other questions FATF must be asking next month as it meets

Opinion | India, And A New BRICS Era of Cooperation And Reform

At a time when global geopolitics is defined by polarisation, systemic fragmentation, and regional conflict, the successful conclusion of the 18th BRICS Summit under India's chairship stands out as a significant triumph of astute and consummate diplomacy as well as adept and insightful leadership. Through patient dialogue, strategic neutrality, and...

Opinion | 80 Years After Holocaust, A Neo-Nazi-Linked Party Is On The Brink Of Power In Germany

The AfD terrifies many people because it reminds them of Hitler's Nazi Germany. It includes people with neo-Nazi backgrounds; its leaders have downplayed the Holocaust. Last week, it registered a landslide win in an election

Opinion | India's Dollar Windfall Has Now Created A Rs 15 Trillion Problem

The recent surge in foreign currency deposits into Indian banks was, by most measures, a policy success. India has spent much of the past decade building a larger external buffer against the volatility that periodically unsettles emerging markets, including sudden capital outflows, a weakening currency, and deteriorating global risk appetite. The m...

Opinion | Sydney Sweeney And The Obsession With Asking Sportswomen To 'Take The Clothes Off'

There is a world of difference between an athlete choosing to be sexy and an advertiser deciding that sex is the most interesting thing about her

Opinion | India-China Are Suddenly Getting Along. But What's On Offer?

After nearly five-years of diplomatic and military freeze post-2020 border clash, China-India relations seem to be turning a corner. It was in August 2025 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China to attend the SCO Tianjin Summit, marking his first trip to the country since 2018. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited India to attend the B...

Opinion | The 'AIPC' Was Once Congress' Boldest Idea. What Happened To It?

Tharoor, to Chakravarti, to Yaskhi now, the fate of a Congress 'experiment' that started in 2017 will tell you a lot

Analysis | 75 Manifestos For 75 Districts: Akhilesh Yadav's Move For 2027 UP Polls

The Samajwadi Party will break the tradition of releasing a single manifesto for all of Uttar Pradesh ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has put his stamp on a new mantra - "75 manifestos for UP's 75 districts". Virtually taking a leaf out of the UP government's "one district, one product" campaign, the pa...

Opinion | BRICS' Climate Question: Who Gets to Write the Rules?

The New Delhi Declaration puts debt, trade, and technology at the centre of climate politics, and that is where they belong. The most important line in the 2026 BRICS New Delhi Declaration is not about climate alone, but about demanding a say in the rules of the green transition. By calling for a more representative international order and refor...

Let It Stand: America's Deleted Sikh Poster And The Weather Ahead For Migrants

What we should attend to is the untidy sentiment it briefly let slip into daylight, because that sentiment has a home, and it is not confined to Washington.