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    Empowering young women to enter higher education

    opinion
    Published on Aug 16, 2025 15:25 IST
    Since the 1950s, the government has launched numerous initiatives with the primary goal of enhancing educational opportunities for women. (Hindustan Times)

    Meghnad Desai: Who he was in his thoughts

    The great thing about Meghnad was that he was a well-informed and civilised conversationalist, from whom you always learnt something. (Mint Archive)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 16, 2025 15:25 IST

    Hell hath no fury like Donald Trump scorned

    Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, has revealed that secondary tariffs on India could increase if Trump’s talks with Putin fail. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 16, 2025 15:25 IST

    Resisting the coercive new global trade order

    Trump has inaugurated a new chapter in the global imperial project, which his successor may continue. Efforts are underway to establish new rules for international trade. (Bloomberg)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 15, 2025 15:06 IST

    Friends & foes in an uncertain, shifting world

    The Indian political and street mood is now, justifiably, furious at how the country has been treated by the US even as everyone realises the importance of that country and the bilateral relationship. (PTI)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 15, 2025 15:06 IST

    Make presumed consent the standard for organ donations

    To donate one’s organs so that others may live is perhaps the noblest legacy one can leave. (ANI Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 15, 2025 15:06 IST

    India needs homegrown management consultancies

    For Indian firms to become globally influential, they must build intellectual property. Global firms like McKinsey gained ground not just through execution, but by shaping the discourse through platforms. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 14, 2025 15:15 IST

    An Independence Day message from Red Fort

    Red Fort has witnessed the fabric of India’s social cohesion being torn, shredded repeatedly, only to see it becoming whole again. (Raj K Raj/HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 14, 2025 15:14 IST

    Reform the economy to defeat tariff threat

    A decade ago, a significant push to improve ease of doing business yielded notable results. Now is the time to take it a step further and make India the easiest place to do business in. (Bloomberg)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 14, 2025 15:14 IST

    Unfinished business of gender justice in India

    In 2012, a 23-year-old woman’s brutal gangrape and fatal assault on a bus in Delhi by six men tore through the nation’s conscience. And this time, the State’s response was swift. (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 13, 2025 14:47 IST

    India-US ties: Up, close and personal

    India was upset at Trump pre-empting the ceasefire announcement on May 10 and claiming credit that it was a “US-brokered ceasefire”. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 13, 2025 14:47 IST

    Citizen-State relations and the burden of document raj

    The Indian bureaucracy’s obsession with paper (files, orders, documents) is well known. Anthropologist Mathew Hull traces this to the colonial bureaucracy’s distrust of local Indian functionaries, which manifested itself in kaghaz raj or “documentary rule”. (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 13, 2025 14:46 IST

    Getting the organ donation policy right

    Despite India’s world-class transplant surgeons, our organ donation rate remains among the lowest in the world — only 0.65 donors per million population. (ANI Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 13, 2025 10:30 IST

    Winners and losers in times of political churn

    Brahmins recognise that their political rehabilitation will have to wait since OBCs and Dalits form 85% of the population. In any democracy, numbers matter the most. (Hindustan Times)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 12, 2025 15:11 IST

    Realising the dreams of India’s freedom fighters

    Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose would have been proud of our modern self-reliant armed forces and the spectacular success of Operation Sindoor. (ANI Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 12, 2025 15:11 IST

    Time for India to have big and quick reforms

    Reforms to help energy distribution companies ensure reliable and affordable energy supply is necessary for industry competitiveness. (REUTERS)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 12, 2025 15:10 IST

    The Taste by Vir Sanghvi: How fermented fish shapes flavour across culture

    Fermented fish sauce influences your favourite dishes, even vegetarian ones.
    opinion
    Published on Aug 12, 2025 11:38 IST

    India’s geopolitical response to weaponisation of tariffs

    The more Trump speaks against BRICS, the more significance the grouping gains. (DPR PMO/ANI Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 11, 2025 16:39 IST

    A comprehensive effort to contain sickle cell disease

    In its first two years, the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission has yielded remarkable results, with joint efforts of MoHFW and the states, with over 60.7 million individuals have been screened across more than 300 districts in 17 high-prevalence states. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 11, 2025 16:39 IST

    Decoding the threat in Munir’s desperate talk

    Pakistan fully sees its nuclear weapons as a loser’s option. That’s at least a rational view. Munir is now saying: Don’t count on us being rational. (AFP Photo/Pakistan’s Inter Services Public Relations)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 11, 2025 16:39 IST

    Mind the Gap: How justice was served with Prajwal Revanna’s conviction

    Prajwal Revanna
    opinion
    Published on Aug 11, 2025 24:30 IST

    Shared strategic interests bind New Delhi and Manila

    The convergence of strategic priorities, countering Chinese assertiveness, diversifying partnerships, and building maritime resilience has positioned India-Philippines ties as a pragmatic and purposeful partnershi (Rashtrapati Bhavan)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 10, 2025 14:44 IST

    What Sholay says about 1970s India

    Sholay produced a keyhole narrative about offence and vengeance in which there was no reference to any social-political context (Hindustan Times)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 10, 2025 14:37 IST

    Book Box: How to stop calculating time

    How to stop calculating time.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 10, 2025 07:49 IST

    India’s fashion industry is starved for innovation

    The jadedness in India’s fashion space is sometimes punctuated by some radical and uncompromising experiments from the non- lehenga landscape. (PTI)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 9, 2025 14:33 IST

    Gender & disability: Need inclusion at intersections

    At Pride Parade, as a queer woman with disability, Anchal finds herself left out: No volunteers to help, inaccessible, uneven pathways and lack of sign language interpretation. (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 9, 2025 14:33 IST

    Hits and misses in the one nation, one election idea

    India’s current electoral calendar ensures that some part of the country is almost always in campaign mode. Proponents argue that constant elections constitute an undue burden on the State’s coffers. (ANI)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 9, 2025 14:32 IST

    Questions that Bihar SIR brings to the fore

    Now so far, we have only been analysing names that have been deleted and their impact on the electoral rolls and the electoral trajectory of Bihar. But what about the names that haven’t been included? (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 9, 2025 14:32 IST

    HistoriCity: Uttarakhand’s Harshil was once an English deserter’s playground

    Uttarakhand's Dharali and Harshil were affected by last week’s landslides.
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 9, 2025 10:45 IST

    Tamil Nadu’s trans policy: Aspirational yet incomplete

    Despite its progressive aspirations, the Tamil Nadu State Policy raises significant concerns, particularly on inclusivity in language, the design of reservations, and the narrow scope of its mandate. (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 8, 2025 15:06 IST
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