Category: Opinion

Economic commentators in India, myself included, are a fickle lot. The same bunch of pundits who were lauding the idea of ‘currency stability’ as a…

View More RBI must communicate to signal it’s in charge of things on the currency front

I really, really wanted to like Mark Zuckerberg’s gushing appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast last Friday. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, Facebook’s parent company,…

View More Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice

You’ve made a list of all that you want – all of which you plan to experience and enjoy when you are finally done with…

View More Getting what you want – The Economic Times

Donald Trump has set some grandiose foreign-policy goals for his second term, from buying Greenland to ending the war in Ukraine “in a day.” Here’s…

View More Opinion | Depose Maduro – The New York Times

When GoI launched Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) in 2016, sceptics shrugged it off as another bureaucratic black hole. Seven years later, results speak…

View More Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS): How policy vision transformed India’s entrepreneurial…

“Because the desire for revenge is so closely linked to violence,” McCullough and his co-authors wrote, “it has been fashionable in Western thought since the…

View More Opinion | Revenge Is a Dish Best Served From the White House

BRICS is now BRICSEEIIU, and it’s sturdier for it. Indonesia‘s full membership into BRICS+ last Monday is an opportunity for strengthening multilateralism. With the world’s…

View More BRICSEEIIU, finding purpose in heft

To state the obvious: As a former weekend “Fox & Friends” anchor, Army National Guard officer and leader of two small nonprofits, Pete Hegseth is…

View More Opinion | In Hegseth, Trump Finally Has What He Wants

As a percentage of G.D.P., more than a dozen contact group members now provide more security assistance to Ukraine than the United States does. And…

View More Opinion | We Must Stand by Ukraine

Mark Zuckerberg‘s been reading his Machiavelli. The creator of Facemash – the 2003 website that uploaded photos of female Harvard students in pairs, without permission…

View More ‘Masculine energy’? Just say ‘aggressive’

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s recent advisory that drinking alcohol raises the risk of cancer is something of a gamble. It’s a bet that telling people…

View More Opinion | Don’t Overthink the Connection Between Alcohol and Cancer

Joe Biden is leaving the India-US strategic relationship with a solid docket of achievements — ‘from the seabed to the stars, and beyond’, to quote…

View More Adani, export controls, and beyond: Can India-US relations overcome its hurdles under…

We got the evacuation alert on Wednesday night. The fire came out of nowhere and threatened to sweep through Hollywood. I pulled our son out…

View More Opinion | Los Angeles Is Being Crushed Under the Weight of Inaction

MahaKumbh 2025: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Event MahaKumbh 2025 is truly a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence for every individual who exists at this given point on this planet. The…

View More Pessimism: A Persistent Trait of Akhilesh Yadav and the Opposition