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    Right to clean air: Public health and respecting religious traditions need not be opposing ideas

    opinion
    Updated on Nov 4, 2026 08:46 IST
    It is not enough to issue directions, hold meetings and release advisories while the same violations recur every year. (HT PHOTO)

    Dichotomy in Xi’s China: Discipline vs efficiency

    Xi Jinping has warned against institutional rules becoming hollow exercises. Excessive paperwork, bureaucratic formalism, and officials’ reluctance to assume responsibility have also been critiqued (Xinhua via AP)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 4, 2026 00:45 IST

    Decoding farmer suicides beyond headline numbers

    Maharashtra is not a one-crop state, and the farmer-suicide crisis is not a one-crop story. Vidarbha grows cotton almost exclusively. Cotton is the most documented case because Vidarbha is where the crisis is most concentrated, and cotton prices are tracked by a global benchmark, the COTLOOK A index. (Getty Images)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 4, 2026 00:40 IST

    Lessons for the world in Lula’s big win in Brazil

    Lula’s win shows that panic does not always win. Yet, the grievances that fuel it are real and must be addressed. (AP)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 4, 2026 00:35 IST

    French Halloween: Horrors of a broken social contract

    The goal today is less a regime-change than offering everyone the possibility to study and enter into professional life without too many hindrances. Obviously, this call for equality is not disconnected from political aspirations for a fairer society. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 3, 2026 00:45 IST

    Expanding urbanisation calls for governance to keep pace

    The consequences of transport-oriented development and city-based spillover extend beyond individual settlements. Workers travel across administrative boundaries, businesses depend on regional transport networks, and demand for housing and services spreads into surrounding areas. The National Capital Region illustrates this interdependence. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 3, 2026 00:45 IST

    India’s interests must guide space partnerships

    With competition in space accelerating, India will need partners for missions it cannot yet undertake alone. (@isro X/ANI)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 3, 2026 00:35 IST

    The battle over sex and gender identity reaches India’s Supreme Court

    File photo
    opinion
    Updated on Nov 2, 2026 03:57 IST

    Renewable energy success that should inspire the world

    Solar capacity in India has grown nearly twentyfold over the last ten years, making it the world’s third-largest renewable energy market. (AP)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 2, 2026 00:45 IST

    China may be a heavyweight, but India is no pushover

    Over the past decade, India has systematically bolstered its security apparatus along the LAC. Engineering breakthroughs such as formidable Himalayan passes, including the Atal and Sela tunnels, ensure that strategic supply arteries to forward frontier bases remain operational in all seasons. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 2, 2026 00:40 IST

    Pakistan’s year of pacts and India’s long game

    The signing of the Badr Memorandum of Understanding capped a year of several geopolitically important moments for Islamabad. (Turkish Defence Ministry via Reuters)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 2, 2026 00:35 IST

    The factional genius of the Indian psyche

    Conquerors did not need to defeat India; they merely had to exploit the betrayals engineered by Indians against Indians. The Battle of Plassey in 1757 was not a triumph of British military genius, but of successful subversion. (Getty Images)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 1, 2026 00:50 IST

    The language of misogyny in politics

    In a patriarchal society where the participation of women in public life is hindered by gender norms, the effect of misogynist language — sexualised slurs, comments about women’s looks, judging their abilities based on stereotypes — is two-fold. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 1, 2026 00:45 IST

    What Justice Kaul’s book tell us about the judiciary

    Focussing on how the collegium functions. Kaul has worrying things to say. Until former CJI UU Lalit changed the practice, it seems judges were elevated to the Supreme Court without studying their judgments. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 1, 2026 00:40 IST

    Republicans have been their own worst enemies

    Much of the last-minute GOP campaign effort is aimed at bringing Republican voters to the booth, who are much less enthusiastic than Democrats about voting this year. Trump himself has spent the last few weeks holding rallies in states he won by huge margins in an effort to mobilise his core supporters to turn out on Election Day. (Getty Images)
    opinion
    Published on Nov 1, 2026 00:35 IST

    The actual cause of India’s R&D malaise

    Instead of trying to solve every problem, all at once, give Indian entrepreneurs large, city-sized, globally competitive clusters free of approval and logistics delays, high electricity costs and input tariffs. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 31, 2026 00:46 IST

    The promise and perils of the peptide craze

    A peptide is a chain of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Our bodies naturally produce hundreds of peptides. Important hormones, including insulin, glucagon, oxytocin, and vasopressin, belong to this family. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 31, 2026 00:40 IST

    Competition, merit define Macaulay’s other key legacy

    There can be no better way to commemorate Macaulay’s birth than by appreciating his most important contribution: making public examination the route to the civil service. (Getty Images)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 31, 2026 00:35 IST

    A richer measure of poverty: Why income alone is misleading

    MPI is more amenable to government intervention. In communities where toilets, electricity connections, schools and nutrition programmes are provided, MPI can decrease even if there is no observable change in household income. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 30, 2026 09:09 IST

    Consider the objectives ethanol can help meet

    Grain-based ethanol production not only reduced dependence on sugarcane but also resolved the seasonality challenge of extraction from the cane crop. Thus, the diversity of inputs already partly mitigates the impact on food security. (Bloomberg)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 29, 2026 21:52 IST

    Energy security must not compromise food security

    India must stop expanding ethanol from first-generation feedstocks beyond what E20 requires. Rice-based ethanol should be phased out first, while maize and cane allocations should follow feed availability and genuine sugar surpluses. (Bloomberg)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 29, 2026 21:48 IST

    Institutions’ autonomy is not about technocracy

    If we think of elections as expressions of democratic will, then the regulatory body should also be structured in a way that renders it impartial but accountable. (Bloomberg)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 29, 2026 21:46 IST

    On-ground protection fails if police remains inacessible

    The first interaction between a complainant and the police can determine whether a person feels empowered to seek justice or retreats into silence. A sensitive response can prevent further harm. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 29, 2026 00:45 IST

    Delhi’s future planning must involve efficient partnerships

    As the national capital addresses the demands of a growing metropolis, the challenge is to ensure that investment, institutional capacity and technology translate into reliable public services. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 29, 2026 00:40 IST

    New frontiers for India, Nepal to work together

    Better early-warning systems, timely sharing of data, and joint rescue exercises help save lives and reduce damage from natural disasters. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 29, 2026 00:35 IST

    Towards transparent welfare spending, with digital rupee

    The CBDC token enables the beneficiaries to know their household’s monthly entitlement of food grains and the subsidy borne by the Centre. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 28, 2026 00:46 IST

    Artificial intelligence and the friction paradox

    Evidence shows that beginners gain the most from AI, and also lose the most. The efficient shortcut that is harmless for the expert can hollow out the novice. (Reuters)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 28, 2026 00:40 IST

    Undoing a 50-year-old damage to federalism

    Fifty years on, the experiment of 1976 has failed: Centralisation has delivered neither excellence nor equity, and has left the states answerable for education without being in charge of it. (Reuters)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 28, 2026 00:35 IST

    Rajasthan should get the next NIMHANS. Here’s why that isn’t special pleading

    Putting specialist capacity in one place does not mean expecting every patient to travel there. The patient with depression in Barmer should not have to travel to Jaipur. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Oct 27, 2026 16:36 IST

    The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: Why restaurants refuse to scrap service charges

    The problem with service charges at restaurants never ends.
    opinion
    Published on Oct 27, 2026 13:50 IST
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