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    An Independence Day message from Red Fort

    opinion
    Published on Aug 14, 2025 15:14 IST
    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)

    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

    Reconciling the questions about voter-roll integrity

    Regions with a contested history of migration such as Assam have had long spells of unrest over electoral discrepancies, which led to controversial moves such as the NRC. (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 8, 2025 15:06 IST

    The physics of violin, when music and science meet

    By the 1920s, the violin had been thoroughly incorporated into Carnatic music. (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 8, 2025 15:06 IST

    What the ICJ ruling means for climate action and justice

    The court ruled that climate action is no longer optional. States have clear legal obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Paris Agreement, and customary international law to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis (PTI)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 8, 2025 06:30 IST

    The Art of a Good Unicorn: The presence of AI doesn’t guarantee defensibility

    Rahul Bhasin underwent a course at the MIT to gain a deeper understanding of new-age technologies. (HT sourced photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 8, 2025 05:37 IST

    Ground may be shifting in India-China relations

    Several Chinese scholars and intellectuals felt that, despite outstanding issues and differences, India and China should advance cooperation in diverse sectors. (AP)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 7, 2025 15:41 IST

    Airlines’ push for speed: Is safety becoming a casualty?

    Post Covid, leisure travel has come back with a vengeance, and business travel has limped back, albeit at a much slower clip. Airports, some with improved facilities given the private-sector funds pouring in, have become more crowded (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Published on Aug 7, 2025 15:41 IST

    Trump’s tariff shadow on India-US relations

    India’s high import tariff structure is a long-maintained policy position of protecting the domestic agricultural sector. (PTI)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 7, 2025 15:41 IST
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