As a teacher in a private school, I wonder how my profession will sustain in the coming years because it thrives on extending oneself beyond work hours

The government must recruit fresh talent, prized for its quality, independence and new ideas, not loyalty and cheerleading. Officials must become more open and realistic about acknowledging the ongoing challenges

Rapid urbanisation within the city has increased vehicular traffic and construction activities, while natural ecosystems that once helped cleanse the air have been steadily lost. Pollution and construction regulations are ineffective or poorly applied

Amassing 15 to 20 million followers, along with hundreds of thousands of reels, memes, and posts, within just five or six days, is no ordinary feat. It serves as a clear indicator of the sheer magnitude of pent-up frustration that has accumulated

Some of the quietest damage is done in houses that look perfectly normal to others from the outside. Where a parent’s love comes with conditions attached, where a child learns early to manage their parent’s emotions before their own, where affection is wielded as a reward and withdrawn as punishment

Hostility can dress itself up as administration. Rudeness can masquerade as clarity. And ChatGPT quickly refines arguments, grammar, etc, making our offensive behaviour effortless

The task is far more complex than issuing measured statements on Ukraine. Deeper integration of defence industries inevitably requires alignment with wider geopolitical realities.

The toxic trolling and the X account of Cockroach Janata Party being withheld reflect the growing danger that India could slip to 157th place even in an unbiased ranking if such actions continue unchecked.

Promotion, identification, and recognition of high-quality teaching and research across the academic ecosystem should receive the highest priority so that India’s enormous talent effectively takes the country to a truly leading position.

From the opium fields of Ghazipur to the valleys of Kashmir, India’s drug crisis has long been visible to those willing to look. Why has political will been so slow to follow?

We are all participants of this great Foucauldian panopticon where we are not only looking at each other but there is data surveillance too. But are we representative of a country and a culture that is as vast and varied as ours?

The idol was excavated or recovered during clearing operations in Dhar by a British colonial officer, Major General William Kincaid. Following its removal from the Bhojshala complex, the idol was shipped to England, arriving in the UK in 1886. It was officially acquired by the British Museum in 1909.

Marriage has historically operated as far more than a personal relationship between individuals. It has functioned simultaneously as an economic arrangement, a mechanism for maintaining caste boundaries, a system for organising gendered labour...

As global AI models drain $150 billion through 'predictive arbitrage,' India’s path to a $30 trillion economy lies in weaponising its chaos, engaging in ‘neural satyagraha’ against a new age of algorithmic colonisation

Too many in the state told a story that failed to match reality, and the fundamental shift in politics on the ground

The danger is not that Gen Z has become political. It is that politics itself is increasingly becoming a cultural performance — rapidly consumed, aesthetically amplified, and abandoned once the trend changes

We have to return to thinking that what is good for the world will, in the long run, be good for us as well. This requires recognising the US, in the current form, for what it is — an imperial power unleashing a new and dangerous nihilism in the world order

India needs to source nearly four times its current urea opening stocks to meet kharif requirements, and that gap must be bridged through imports purchased at crisis-level global prices

Fame, while dazzling, has very little to do with the drudgery of daily practice. In effect, its touch is as mystical and inexplicable as the business of loving and living: It is mundane, it is sublime. To outsource the former is to give up agency upon the latter

Unlike history textbooks and political monuments, which can be rewritten or demolished, the temple, and its heart, the deity, exists as the one thing we know for sure meant the same to us as it did for our ancestors. As digital platforms and networks spread and replace lived experiences in the minds of our descendants, will they have memories of reality or just incepted propaganda?