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    A gender agenda for BRICS

    opinion
    Published on Sep 13, 2026 02:03 IST
    The first-ever BRICS Joint Women Ministerial Statement marked an important step towards advancing “women-led development,” identifying women’s economic autonomy and their full participation in development as collective BRICS priorities.

    Working with China on common interests

    The somewhat belated announcement that President Xi Jinping will lead his country’s delegation to the 18th BRICS summit was widely welcomed. This has given the BRICS meet a certain heft. Equally importantly, it marks the first visit of the Chinese leader to this country since 2019, at a time when there is an uptick in ties between the two countries.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 13, 2026 02:05 IST

    What Russia brings to BRICS and India

    India sees Russia as a partner within BRICS, not as part of an anti-western bloc. The India-Russia partnership demonstrates how countries with differing foreign policy orientations can sustain pragmatic cooperation in a contested global order.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 13, 2026 01:48 IST

    BRICS+ and mass mobility as lodestar for EV policy

    Fourteen of BRICS+’s 21 economies, representing 84% of its combined population import more oil than they produce. Since road transport drives roughly 45% of global oil demand, e-mobility offers a clear lever to reduce exposure.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 12, 2026 24:47 IST

    BRICS success leans on money and its mundane processes

    The true power of BRICS won’t lie in any one big-number declaration made in Delhi at the end of the summit, but the mundane process of establishing payment networks, development finance, and diplomatic leverage
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 12, 2026 24:47 IST

    Engage with China, but without getting starry-eyed about it

    While our foreign policy needs to be guided by self-interest, it’s important to accept the absence of natural affinity between India and China
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 12, 2026 24:47 IST

    When cooperation became intelligence

    The ability to understand others, communicate intentions, regulate fear, remember relationships and sustain trust created a social world in which there was value in a particular form of increasingly sophisticated cognition that facilitated cooperation. (AFP)
    opinion
    Published on Sep 11, 2026 02:30 IST

    Jinnah, two Parsi doctors, and the creation of Pakistan

    The authors, who interviewed Jinnah’s daughter Dina Wadia and Patel, wrote that even Gandhi or Nehru knowing about Jinnah’s illness could have averted India’s Partition. They noted it was such a crucial secret that even the British Criminal Investigation Department did not know about it.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 11, 2026 01:09 IST

    BRICS must prioritise New Development Bank

    BRICS recognises that NDB must become better integrated with its growing financial agenda. The 2025 BRICS Leaders’ Declaration agreed to incubate the BRICS Multilateral Guarantees initiative within NDB as a pilot initiative. It also encouraged continued dialogue between the BRICS Interbank Cooperation Mechanism and NDB.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 11, 2026 01:09 IST

    The wrong turn that US strategy took after 9/11

    The Bush administration proceeded with inadequate foreknowledge and insufficient planning in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 11, 2026 01:09 IST

    A question of identity for India’s transgenders

    In 2014, in National Legal Services Authority v Union of India, the Supreme Court held that gender identity is part of personal autonomy and self-expression and cannot be reduced to anatomy or surgical status. Three years after NALSA, a nine-judge bench in KS Puttaswamy v Union of India held that privacy is a fundamental right. This includes personal choice including decisions concerning one’s body.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 10, 2026 06:08 IST

    Air India’s one too many ‘impossible’ incidents

    Air India management must introspect on why these apparently impossible occurrences have happened with their aircraft.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 10, 2026 06:08 IST

    Bringing coherence & cohesion to BRICS

    BRICS to take place in India from September 12 to 13.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 10, 2026 06:08 IST

    Caesarean deliveries’ rising numbers may not be all bad

    Caesarean birth was associated with a 70% reduction in the odds of stillbirth or neonatal death. This does not prove that more caesareans are always better. But definitely, the relationship between caesarean rates and outcomes is too complex to be contained by a simple population threshold. [Photo credit: AFP]
    opinion
    Published on Sep 9, 2026 02:22 IST

    Pakistan’s lies starting to show in PoK crackdown

    The people of PoK continue to struggle for azaadi from Pakistan’s control. [Photo credit: AFP]
    opinion
    Published on Sep 9, 2026 02:22 IST

    Semicon 2.0 gets it right on the issues that matter

    ISM now runs the entire value chain, ten categories, equity management, royalty tracking, and investment decisions. [Photo credit: Getty Images]
    opinion
    Published on Sep 9, 2026 02:22 IST

    Why the GST council needs a disability policy, not just rate cuts

    On August 4, 2026, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Pardiwala and Viswanathan directed the Centre to appoint a Chief Commissioner under Section 74. This post has only been held in additional charge since 2019.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 8, 2026 10:55 IST

    No Jauhar without Saka

    Jauhar was always accompanied by Saka. Both were performed to avoid not just rape but capture, enslavement, forced conversion, torture, and death.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 8, 2026 09:55 IST

    Muddied legal waters of the Indus Treaty

    India now needs to make its public case plainly. It should explain why parallel proceedings violate the Indus Waters Treaty and how it will protect its legitimate hydropower rights
    opinion
    Published on Sep 8, 2026 01:31 IST

    Privatising missile sector to preserve autonomy

    India wants to build a missile industrial base rather than merely produce missiles. The immediate rationale is familiar. But the strategic logic is deeper.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 8, 2026 01:31 IST

    How India can bag its next hockey World Cup

    The women’s team fought hard at the World Cup, whether they won, lost or drew. Their discipline, ball movement, fearlessness and commitment were commendable.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 8, 2026 01:30 IST

    A woman’s place in the city

    Desperately seeking young women.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 7, 2026 02:30 IST

    The case for a progressive & fair Uniform Civil Code

    For millions of Indian women, the Uniform Civil Code is not an academic issue. It affects marriage, divorce, maintenance, inheritance and financial security. It shapes everyday life. And for many Muslim women, the stakes are especially high.
    opinion
    Published on Sep 7, 2026 01:19 IST

    The ancient temples’ imprint on our culture

    Ayodhya was the symbol of the king’s conduct and international cooperation and was considered a centre of good governance. Mathura was the centre of commercial banking, sculpting, agriculture and economics even before the advent of Christ. Kashi was the seat of education, learning, ayurveda and yoga. Temples like these have helped bring grace and sophistication to our civilisation and created a foundation to make it global.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 7, 2026 01:17 IST

    The growth numbers can be easily defended

    A few difficult weeks at the start of a three-month quarter do not turn the quarter’s growth number into fiction.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 7, 2026 01:13 IST

    India’s growth: by the numbers, for the numbers, of the numbers

    GDP measures aggregate production; it does not directly measure household welfare, income distribution, job quality, or purchasing power.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 6, 2026 03:28 IST

    Just Like That: Reading Manusmriti and its many contradictions

    The problem in evaluating Hindu texts is that simplistic condemnation or exaggerated counter claims are both unwarranted.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 6, 2026 01:32 IST

    Better data can help fund effective gender initiatives

    Lack of data and information is not a uniquely Indian problem. In The Lords of Poverty, author Graham Hancock, once a UN employee, speaks of how misguided funding and aid, though well-intentioned, deliver little to no benefit to the end user.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 6, 2026 01:03 IST

    Imran Khan as Munir’s ‘rock and a hard place’ problem

    If Khan alive worries Munir and Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, Khan dead could very well paralyse them. That they’re scared of his popularity and its consequences, is, perhaps, undeniable.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 6, 2026 01:00 IST

    Build liveable India to realise the Incredible India potential

    A city that is easier for a foreign visitor to navigate is usually easier for its own citizens to live in. Tourism also gives city governments a direct economic reason to improve basic services.
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 6, 2026 24:57 IST
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