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    India’s space leaps show its self-assured momentum

    opinion
    Updated on Aug 23, 2026 08:58 IST
    India’s space ambitions have skyrocketed, not only among players but also among citizens who have come to associate a particular pride on the global stage with the country’s space capabilities.

    Growing poverty of a once-rich language

    Instead of rejoicing in the richness English offers, we’ve all dumbed down and happily settled for the limited range of sms-speak.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 23, 2026 08:52 IST

    Poor policy gives a good biofuel bad rep

    The government ought to carefully weigh its current ethanol incentive structure, which is tilted towards two water-guzzling crops: sugarcane and rice.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 23, 2026 08:52 IST

    A double burden for women in dengue season

    Almost 70% of community health workers are women who work at risk of contracting diseases themselves to deliver care. Yet, this labour is rarely acknowledged or paid adequately.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 23, 2026 08:53 IST

    Democratic transmission of street-to-statute is breaking

    Streets are the spaces where citizens without wealth or privileged access make invisible grievances politically visible. The danger is not that citizens bypass Parliament but that Parliament fails to absorb what they say.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 22, 2026 02:44 IST

    A new playbook for sports governance

    Cricket’s commercial success is best read as a demonstration of what strong governance, broadcast innovation, and investor confidence can do for a sport.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 22, 2026 02:44 IST

    The promise and peril of the global city in our times

    In a rapidly urbanising world, a city that fails to address human needs risks becoming not a great metropolis but a necropolis.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 22, 2026 02:43 IST

    Opinion: What's the price a soldier pays for your “taxes”?

    The woman who argued with the Indian Army officers.
    trips tours
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 04:04 IST

    IndiGo’s transition plan has one risk too many: ‘Unrealistic ambitions’

    With a new CEO, HR chief, chief financial officer, and chief of strategy, among others, a big new challenge at this stage might be biting off more than it can chew.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 03:24 IST

    All of us should have the right to age with dignity

    It is often said that India will grow old before it grows rich. The real question is whether it can afford to grow old before it builds the guardrails for dignified ageing.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 03:24 IST

    Focus on ‘greatness’ to Iran deal: Trump may escape the consequences of his mess

    In the past, a president who showed so little concern for the welfare of the American people would pay a price in the mid-term elections.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 03:23 IST

    The AI race: can India turn sunlight into intelligence?

    India has plentiful solar potential, and it is already putting it to use. But that is not sufficient since the sun shines only during the day. Investing in energy storage at scale could turn India’s daytime solar glut into a continuous baseload for AI data centers. (Reuters)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 21, 2026 02:30 IST

    India’s photographic identity: Who gets to tell this tale?

    The test is not whether a picture is well composed. It is whether you are actually interested in telling something through it, or only about making your presence felt. A ladder left lying flat against a soot-blackened wall, something small and dried caught between its rungs, is not the kind of photograph anyone posts under a festival’s name. It asks nothing of the viewer except to notice it was there.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 20, 2026 05:40 IST

    Need to root public health education in Indian realities

    Public health functions broadly include health surveillance, protection, promotion, planning, regulation, services organisation, delivery, and evaluation, and requires a wide gamut of workforce trained in public health nutrition, occupational and environmental health, epidemiology and biostatistics, health administration and management, informatics, social sciences, economics, and policy analysis. (Photo for representation)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 20, 2026 05:40 IST

    Sanction-proofing India’s interests and autonomy

    Sanctions can serve legitimate security purposes. But India should challenge coercion that travels far beyond the country imposing it. (Photo for representation)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 20, 2026 05:39 IST

    Is Claude down - or am I just waiting?

    Every AI service will experience outages, congestion or inconsistent performance.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 19, 2026 07:16 IST

    Changing how insurance business is done in India

    Despite decades of high-cost distribution, insurance penetration remains stubbornly low.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 19, 2026 04:31 IST

    Ukraine aces drone game, but may lose ballistic match

    Ukraine’s long-range drones have struck targets as deep as 2,500 km inside Russia, reaching locations like Moscow and St Petersburg, among others.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 19, 2026 04:31 IST

    India should rethink how it taxes R&D investment

    India aims to become a developed economy by 2047. Achieving this goal will require sustained investment in knowledge creation, scientific discovery and technological innovation.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 19, 2026 04:31 IST

    A forced pause for India’s solar power generation

    If India doesn’t want to pause its renewable generation, one solution that has been talked about is to temporarily mothball a few of the country’s inefficient coal-based plants. But that doesn’t seem possible given demand during non-solar hours.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 18, 2026 01:18 IST

    Ecological equity needs constitutional protection

    Justice-oriented forest governance model must recognise circularity — the ecological rule that every right over a forest must carry a responsibility to sustain its regeneration.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 18, 2026 01:18 IST

    After Chandrasekaran, the true test for the Tatas

    The Tata group has survived leadership transitions before. It will survive this one too. It needs to emerge from this transition stronger.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 18, 2026 01:17 IST

    Ecostani: Centre’s mines amendment bill a blow to federal consultation

    Parl passes minerals bill
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 17, 2026 09:59 IST

    The radical idea of women who play just for fun

    Priyanka Parasher for Mint
    opinion
    Published on Aug 17, 2026 02:30 IST

    India @79: Much is done, much remains to be done

    If we need to maintain a balance in our demography, we must create employment opportunities in the villages. Along with secure borders, we need to ensure social and environmental security with equal sensitivity.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 17, 2026 02:22 IST

    More autonomy for the IITs will benefit India

    The IIT system became one of post-independence India’s greatest institutional achievements. Its graduates built domestic industries, helped power Silicon Valley and rose to lead some of the world’s most influential technology companies.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 17, 2026 02:22 IST

    Mecca pact: Interests primary, not alliances

    Holding grudges is the opposite of geopolitical agility, and they limit our options in a multi-aligned world.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 17, 2026 02:21 IST

    Dil Chahta Hai’s to Animal: The loss of vulnerable men

    Farhan Akhtar’s 25-years-old landmark film also told us that it was okay for these men to be sad, to cry. It was perfectly cool for men portraying characters who did not care much for serious issues in life to also show their vulnerable side. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 16, 2026 16:04 IST

    India’s entrance exams emulate Sorting Hat’s opaque decision-making

    When lakhs of teenagers are told that their futures depend on an instrument whose inner workings are mysterious and whose difficulty can shift year to year, and whose administering body faces no real consequence for errors, opacity itself becomes a source of psychological harm. Students cannot prepare rationally for a process they cannot see. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 16, 2026 15:53 IST

    The factory township that birthed an education hub

    Company townships have produced some of the best human capital in this country. They understood something very basic about urban planning.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 16, 2026 02:27 IST
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