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    Reframing the women and work dialogue

    opinion
    Published on Sep 21, 2026 02:30 IST
    If a woman’s job is to cook, clean and care for children and the elderly, then where is the time for her to work outside the house?

    Worrying signs of widening war and economic pain

    Global systems, beset by change and distress, have drawn exasperation worldwide and fuelled the expansion of regional conflicts
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 21, 2026 01:13 IST

    Making Delhi's heritage and infrastructure resilient

    Conservation cannot mean freezing historic buildings and neighbourhoods in time: Heritage must remain a living part of the city.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 21, 2026 01:13 IST

    India urgently needs a National Chemicals Code

    Two major industrial accidents in the same district in Tamil Nadu, within 48 hours, in June this year exposed a deeper structural weakness
    opinion
    Published on Sep 21, 2026 01:13 IST

    Metro living, mediated by the gated societies

    I have spent more than a decade in Gurugram, but when I hear people say, “It’s not a place worth living,” I nod in agreement, because this is theoretically correct for all Indian metros
    opinion
    Published on Sep 20, 2026 01:27 IST

    The long, challenging road to gender equality

    Rights once granted are now under threat. Section 377 — sex against the order of nature — is no longer a crime but marriage equality failed to get majority approval in the Supreme Court. Also, back in the Supreme Court is Sabarimala and the right of women to access places of worship with the issue now being heard by a larger bench.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 20, 2026 01:25 IST

    The SIR exercise and the points of concern

    Under the SIR exercise block level officers (BLOs) — mostly government school teachers — have been given the authority to decide whether a voter, who is already on the rolls and has voted earlier, is a citizen of India and can continue on the rolls. Is it right to give such powers to BLOs?
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 20, 2026 01:24 IST

    Remembering even what’s difficult, painful is necessary

    Remembering is necessary because forgetting is dangerous. And difficult because remembering is about feeling guilty, feeling like wanting to atone.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 20, 2026 01:24 IST

    The strange immortality of an artiste

    The greatest tribute to him is not a memorial, a statue or a record. It is that his songs refuse to become memories.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 19, 2026 09:13 IST

    Where is India in West Africa’s security bet?

    Since 2020, juntas have seized power in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso (The Alliance of Sahel States), each arguing that expelling Western forces and turning to Moscow would achieve what a decade of French-led counterterrorism had not.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 19, 2026 01:02 IST

    PM Modi's legacy: A 25-year record of leadership without parallel

    The 25 years of Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi in government mark one of the most consequential chapters in modern Indian leadership.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 19, 2026 03:01 IST

    Indian Americans must keep marching despite racial insults

    Generational changes can take many forms, including in accents and fluency, the softening of customs, intermarriage, and civic involvement. These processes are already well underway.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 19, 2026 24:51 IST

    Companies need to prove their safety measures work

    The only practical answer to the black-box that AI has become is continuous and transparent auditing and measurement.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 18, 2026 24:45 IST

    Heed Amodei and Altman, frame AI regulations now

    AI has begun building the next generation of AI, a loop, he admits, started inside his company.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 18, 2026 24:45 IST

    GDP row is a fight over the donkey’s shadow

    GDP is a good measure of economic activity but a poor measure of the things that make a country a good place to live.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 18, 2026 24:44 IST

    Bringing the margins into the mainstream

    The lasting legacy of the Modi era is the redefinition of the Indian mainstream.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 17, 2026 02:51 IST

    The structural flaw in the Prevention of Atrocities Act

    Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi escalated Kharge’s charge to a constitutional one, invoking Article 17 of the Constitution.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 17, 2026 02:34 IST

    Indians need rights over all forms of digital likeness

    The Supreme Court has held that privacy is a fundamental right, covering informational privacy or control over how your personal information is gathered and used. That understanding evolved in an era when the primary concern was collecting information about people.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 17, 2026 02:31 IST

    Misreading the 1951 Refugee Convention in India’s context

    The Supreme Court of India has consistently held that international treaties and conventions may inform the interpretation of the Constitution, but only when India is a signatory or party to them. This doctrine reflects a fundamental principle of democratic sovereignty.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 16, 2026 01:58 IST

    The US’s emerging contest with China in Latin America

    Leaders such as Argentina’s Javier Milei share Donald Trump’s priorities on cracking down on cartels and checking migration.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 16, 2026 01:56 IST

    Gig workers really don’t care for bleeding hearts

    The Code on Social Security now formally recognises gig and platform workers and creates a framework for their social security, including schemes covering health, life, and other benefits.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 16, 2026 01:52 IST

    West’s BRICS+ worries underline its own decline

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

    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
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