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The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: Mad, Raj-era dress codes of Indian hotels and clubs

Published on Jul 31, 2025 01:35 pm IST

The unwritten dress codes in Indian clubs and hotels: A relic of the past or a necessary norm? (Freepik)

Grand Strategy: It’s about Trump, not about India

Becoming a great power is a far more serious endeavour both historically and today. (AFP file photo)

Updated on Jul 31, 2025 09:43 am IST

Courts and the making of transgender rights

NALSA’s true breakthrough lay as much in recognizing a third gender as in affirming the right to self-identify — a radical move even by international standards. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 30, 2025 08:57 pm IST

Crypto gets stability with a GENIUS Act

A trusted, low-cost stablecoin backed either by the dollar or US government bonds will slowly replace other ways of moving money across borders. (AFP)

Published on Jul 30, 2025 08:57 pm IST

Indian Americans fret over Big Beautiful law

While the bill’s sweeping provisions will affect virtually all Americans, immigrant communities, including Indian Americans, are poised to face a wide range of challenges due to its provisions. (AFP)

Published on Jul 30, 2025 08:57 pm IST

Why age of consent laws need a nuanced rethink

According to NFHS-5, over 23% of Indian women aged 20–24 were married before 18. These girls, often pushed into early marital sex, rarely find legal redress. (HT Archive)

Published on Jul 29, 2025 09:54 pm IST

India’s imperatives for a national security strategy

In the military sphere, an articulated national security strategy will serve to sharpen focus on evolution of doctrines, design of force-architecture, acquisition of hardware, and mobilisation of the public and private sectors in defence R&D and production. (PTI)

Published on Jul 29, 2025 09:54 pm IST

Donald Trump’s six traits as US president

Trump weighs a country on its own merit, as he defines it, rather than as a part of a wider strategy or that country’s role vis-à-vis a third. (REUTERS)

Updated on Jul 29, 2025 09:54 pm IST

In Nisar collaboration, space exploration paths converge

Nasa-JPL went on to lead landmark missions — from Magellan’s radar mapping of Venus to the Cassini-Huygens mission that revealed Saturn and its moons in stunning detail, and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), which redefined how we map Earth from space. (ANI)

Published on Jul 28, 2025 08:56 pm IST

How NEP facilitated a UK-India partnership

Regulations, when thoroughly crafted and consistently implemented, can be powerful enablers of international learning. (DPR PMO)

Published on Jul 28, 2025 08:55 pm IST

Opinion: In Bihar SIR case, Supreme Court has to walk a tightrope

The Supreme Court merely asked ECI to “consider” three other documents, namely the Aadhaar card, the ration card, and the voter ID card, to tackle the possibility of disenfranchisement. (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jul 29, 2025 02:06 pm IST

Decoding India-China climate and energy interests

China’s role in the global green economy, combined with the backsliding of Western economies towards their climate commitments, has geopolitical implications for India’s green energy ambitions. (@narendramodi/X.com)

Updated on Jul 28, 2025 04:50 pm IST

A road map for the Quad Critical Minerals Initiative

Critical minerals policy is fragmented across nations and industries. Without a co-ordinating forum, exploration, ESG standards and procurements remain unaligned. The QMCI could serve as a government-industry platform to align policies, share analysis, harmonise standards and co-ordinate projects (@DrSJaishankar)

Published on Jul 28, 2025 10:38 am IST

How free bus rides are changing the lives of women

Women travel by a bus in Bengaluru after the Karnataka government launched the 'Shakti' scheme which provides free bus travel for women across the state.. (PTI)

Published on Jul 28, 2025 06:00 am IST

Industry and government need a new pact of trust

Industry should not be involved solely after policies are announced but during their design phase. Early engagement ensures that policies are practical, grounded, and aligned with industry realities (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Jul 27, 2025 08:06 pm IST

UK FTA is a turning point in how India engages with West

This new pragmatism — open on industry, cautious on food — could now become the blueprint for other negotiations, particularly with the ongoing one with the US (Bloomberg)

Updated on Jul 27, 2025 08:19 pm IST

Lost in Kanwar noise, devotion to the divine

Loud music played by kanwariya boom boxes creates intense noise disturbing citizens, pets and wildlife alike (Photo by Sakib Ali / Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jul 27, 2025 07:58 pm IST

Book Box | My monsoon survival story

Rakesh Bakshi

Updated on Jul 27, 2025 01:31 pm IST

What cinema can do when kindness is a thing of past

Superman does not skirt over notions of good and evil by depicting unrealistic otherworldly circumstances. (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

Published on Jul 26, 2025 08:36 pm IST

Process as punishment and deceptive closures

Twelve fellow citizens, with the same right to justice and fair play as you or I, have spent 19 years in jail, accused and then initially convicted of a crime they did not do. They were punished when they were innocent. (HT Photo)

Published on Jul 26, 2025 08:35 pm IST

After Coldplaygate, the world of moral lynchings

Leave aside the sexism of “sidepiece”, a country that has only months ago elected a legally defined sexual predator is now expressing horror at the moral lapse. (AFP)

Updated on Jul 26, 2025 08:35 pm IST

The world was his stage, and he played many parts

Thiyam believed true modernity lay not in blind imitation of western forms, but in a deep engagement with one’s cultural heritage. (HT Photo)

Published on Jul 26, 2025 08:29 pm IST

History writing must go beyond textbooks

Teaching history can be such fun if we let the children fully interact with the teacher on the subject. (AFP)

Published on Jul 25, 2025 08:55 pm IST

Cricket diplomacy can serve India in the neighbourhood

The BCCI’s muscle is best channelled towards magnanimity, consequently in winning hearts and minds; not arm-twisting and seeking undue conveniences in the field. (PTI)

Published on Jul 25, 2025 08:54 pm IST

India-UK FTA: A bold pathway to closer trade ties

The India-UK FTA represent a bold attempt to restructure the bilateral economic relationship between the two countries. (Bloomberg)

Published on Jul 25, 2025 08:54 pm IST

In Bihar, policing stays handcuffed to an old law

A constable with a lathi was a symbol that the colonial Crown authority stretched from cantonment to every muddy lane. That legacy still defines the Bihar Police. (Hindustan Times)

Published on Jul 24, 2025 08:37 pm IST

Delhi-Malé ties are shaped by geography and mutual trust

Whether during the 2004 tsunami or the 2014 Malé water crisis, India has consistently acted as the Maldives’ first responder in times of need. (@indiannavy/SpokespersonNavy via PTI Photo)

Updated on Jul 24, 2025 08:36 pm IST

Man of the jungle who spoke for its residents

Corbett’s words continue to reshape global perspectives on wilderness and its guardianship. (HT Archive)

Updated on Jul 24, 2025 08:36 pm IST

AI must aid human thought, not become its replacement

While automation holds tremendous promise for efficiency, delegating judgment, especially in life and death contexts like warfare, to AI systems raises profound concerns. (HT Photo)

Published on Jul 23, 2025 09:14 pm IST

Setting sail for Viksit Bharat with maritime growth push

The bouquet of initiatives has started attracting major global shipbuilding companies to joint ventures with Indian shipping companies, which is bound to create massive employment opportunities and investment multiplier effects. (AFP)

Published on Jul 23, 2025 09:14 pm IST

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