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    West’s BRICS+ worries underline its own decline

    opinion
    Published on Sep 15, 2026 05:36 IST
    The results of China’s blunting strategy against the US, as the BRICS+ summit in New Delhi showcased, are there for all to see.

    EVM totalisers protect both votes and voters

    One critical part of “free and fair elections” has been the secret ballot. It is here that the use of the totaliser machine becomes extremely crucial for democracy.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 15, 2026 05:35 IST

    In the Iran war, a tale of old American dilemmas

    Any American administration confronting an inconclusive conflict with Iran would have to consider not only what further military action might achieve in Iran, but also what its consequences would be elsewhere.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 15, 2026 05:35 IST

    BAPS goes to Paris

    Eiffel Tower
    opinion
    Published on Sep 14, 2026 02:30 IST

    Don’t mistake the noise around BRICS for impact

    BRICS is useful for hedging, and for keeping adversaries close, especially when friends are acting up. It is a messaging platform and a pressure group which brings leaders with very different views into the same room, where some of those differences get talked through, if not resolved.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 14, 2026 24:58 IST

    Growing reach of Hindi and regional languages

    Hindi is acquiring a global footprint. The total number of people who can speak, understand and use Hindi language stands at over 610 million. Ninety percent of them live in India. The remaining 10% live outside the country and act as its brand ambassador.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 14, 2026 24:55 IST

    The West cannot go on criticising BRICS

    As long as the Global South continues to define “order” and “rules” using a Western vocabulary, no grouping is likely to be deemed satisfactory (Photo for representation)
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 14, 2026 24:53 IST

    Post Iran war, oil is the new oil

    Unless there is a meaningful resolution of the situation in West Asia, the oil shock to global markets is here to stay and will only accentuate (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 13, 2026 16:08 IST

    BRICS and the question of ensuring energy security

    The Nepal tragedy has once again reminded the world of the catastrophic consequences of the unhealthy linkage between economic development, energy demand, and environmental degradation.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 13, 2026 02:06 IST

    A gender agenda for BRICS

    The first-ever BRICS Joint Women Ministerial Statement marked an important step towards advancing “women-led development,” identifying women’s economic autonomy and their full participation in development as collective BRICS priorities.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 13, 2026 02:03 IST

    Working with China on common interests

    The somewhat belated announcement that President Xi Jinping will lead his country’s delegation to the 18th BRICS summit was widely welcomed. This has given the BRICS meet a certain heft. Equally importantly, it marks the first visit of the Chinese leader to this country since 2019, at a time when there is an uptick in ties between the two countries.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 13, 2026 02:05 IST

    What Russia brings to BRICS and India

    India sees Russia as a partner within BRICS, not as part of an anti-western bloc. The India-Russia partnership demonstrates how countries with differing foreign policy orientations can sustain pragmatic cooperation in a contested global order.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 13, 2026 01:48 IST

    BRICS+ and mass mobility as lodestar for EV policy

    Fourteen of BRICS+’s 21 economies, representing 84% of its combined population import more oil than they produce. Since road transport drives roughly 45% of global oil demand, e-mobility offers a clear lever to reduce exposure.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 12, 2026 24:47 IST

    BRICS success leans on money and its mundane processes

    The true power of BRICS won’t lie in any one big-number declaration made in Delhi at the end of the summit, but the mundane process of establishing payment networks, development finance, and diplomatic leverage
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 12, 2026 24:47 IST

    Engage with China, but without getting starry-eyed about it

    While our foreign policy needs to be guided by self-interest, it’s important to accept the absence of natural affinity between India and China
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 12, 2026 24:47 IST

    When cooperation became intelligence

    The ability to understand others, communicate intentions, regulate fear, remember relationships and sustain trust created a social world in which there was value in a particular form of increasingly sophisticated cognition that facilitated cooperation. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 11, 2026 02:30 IST

    Jinnah, two Parsi doctors, and the creation of Pakistan

    The authors, who interviewed Jinnah’s daughter Dina Wadia and Patel, wrote that even Gandhi or Nehru knowing about Jinnah’s illness could have averted India’s Partition. They noted it was such a crucial secret that even the British Criminal Investigation Department did not know about it.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 11, 2026 01:09 IST

    BRICS must prioritise New Development Bank

    BRICS recognises that NDB must become better integrated with its growing financial agenda. The 2025 BRICS Leaders’ Declaration agreed to incubate the BRICS Multilateral Guarantees initiative within NDB as a pilot initiative. It also encouraged continued dialogue between the BRICS Interbank Cooperation Mechanism and NDB.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 11, 2026 01:09 IST

    The wrong turn that US strategy took after 9/11

    The Bush administration proceeded with inadequate foreknowledge and insufficient planning in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 11, 2026 01:09 IST

    A question of identity for India’s transgenders

    In 2014, in National Legal Services Authority v Union of India, the Supreme Court held that gender identity is part of personal autonomy and self-expression and cannot be reduced to anatomy or surgical status. Three years after NALSA, a nine-judge bench in KS Puttaswamy v Union of India held that privacy is a fundamental right. This includes personal choice including decisions concerning one’s body.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 10, 2026 06:08 IST

    Air India’s one too many ‘impossible’ incidents

    Air India management must introspect on why these apparently impossible occurrences have happened with their aircraft.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 10, 2026 06:08 IST

    Bringing coherence & cohesion to BRICS

    BRICS to take place in India from September 12 to 13.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 10, 2026 06:08 IST

    Caesarean deliveries’ rising numbers may not be all bad

    Caesarean birth was associated with a 70% reduction in the odds of stillbirth or neonatal death. This does not prove that more caesareans are always better. But definitely, the relationship between caesarean rates and outcomes is too complex to be contained by a simple population threshold. [Photo credit: AFP]
    opinion
    Published on Sep 9, 2026 02:22 IST

    Pakistan’s lies starting to show in PoK crackdown

    The people of PoK continue to struggle for azaadi from Pakistan’s control. [Photo credit: AFP]
    opinion
    Published on Sep 9, 2026 02:22 IST

    Semicon 2.0 gets it right on the issues that matter

    ISM now runs the entire value chain, ten categories, equity management, royalty tracking, and investment decisions. [Photo credit: Getty Images]
    opinion
    Published on Sep 9, 2026 02:22 IST

    Why the GST council needs a disability policy, not just rate cuts

    On August 4, 2026, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Pardiwala and Viswanathan directed the Centre to appoint a Chief Commissioner under Section 74. This post has only been held in additional charge since 2019.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 8, 2026 10:55 IST

    No Jauhar without Saka

    Jauhar was always accompanied by Saka. Both were performed to avoid not just rape but capture, enslavement, forced conversion, torture, and death.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 8, 2026 09:55 IST

    Muddied legal waters of the Indus Treaty

    India now needs to make its public case plainly. It should explain why parallel proceedings violate the Indus Waters Treaty and how it will protect its legitimate hydropower rights
    opinion
    Published on Sep 8, 2026 01:31 IST

    Privatising missile sector to preserve autonomy

    India wants to build a missile industrial base rather than merely produce missiles. The immediate rationale is familiar. But the strategic logic is deeper.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 8, 2026 01:31 IST

    How India can bag its next hockey World Cup

    The women’s team fought hard at the World Cup, whether they won, lost or drew. Their discipline, ball movement, fearlessness and commitment were commendable.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 8, 2026 01:30 IST
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