Logo

Opinion

New Arsenal

Wars have often accelerated technological change. The machine gun altered infantry tactics, the tank transformed mobility, and air power redefined strategic reach.

Tariff Reboot

President Donald Trump’s trade policy has acquired a second life. After the US Supreme Court curtailed key elements of the architecture that defined much of his economic agenda, the White House has returned with a familiar instrument wrapped in a different justification.

Cattle Shed Answer

On 28 February 2026, the war that diplomats had spent two years rehearsing began. American and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian nuclear and missile installations; Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed, and by 2 March the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had formally closed the Strait of Hormuz to merchant traffic, laying mines and warning off shipping.

Vitality of our future must be secured

The recently released World Obesity Atlas 2026 has presented a sobering outlook, suggesting that India is navigating a complex shift from a historical struggle with undernutrition to a rising challenge of excess calorie intake.

A government’s role must be re-imagined

Across the world, governments are confronting a defining challenge of our time: how to foster sustainable economic growth, social resilience, and innovation in an era of rapid technological change, demographic shifts, and global uncertainty.

Thermal Reckoning

The most telling measure of today’s climate crisis is not the headline temperature spike or the spectacle of a heatwave, but a quieter, more consequential shift: the Earth is now consistently absorbing more energy than it releases.

Calibrated silence

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed Parliament on the unfolding crisis in West Asia, the emphasis was not on rhetoric but on calibration.

Goa shows the way

Goa’s rise to the upper echelons of NITI Aayog’s Fiscal Health Index ~ a 54.7 composite score that places it second nationally ~ is not a matter of luck or transient windfalls.