Opinion

What Is India’s Youth Asking For: Cultural Identity or the Right to a Future?

India’s youth have always questioned power, from the student movements of the 1970s to the Anna movement. Today, programmes in Ujjain and Indore raise a new question: is young India seeking cultural identity, political recognition or something more basic — the right to shape its future?

BRICS Isn’t Beijing’s Game. It’s India’s Strategic Autonomy

India’s BRICS engagement is not about choosing China over the West but protecting its strategic autonomy. As the global order turns multipolar, India must retain strong ties across competing blocs while defending its independent foreign policy and ensuring that national interests, not Western approval, shape its international choices.

Across Time Zones and Election Trails: The Sudivya Sonu I Knew

Sudivya Sonu was more than a politician I covered. He was someone I knew as a voter, journalist and friend. Across two decades, cities, elections and time zones, our conversations continued—until a final speech, a promised meeting and a sudden loss changed everything

A Third of the Capital Erased: The Reality Behind the SIR Revision

Nearly one in three Delhi voters is missing from the draft electoral roll after the SIR exercise. For those affected, the issue is not merely a number—it could mean navigating paperwork and bureaucracy to reclaim a fundamental democratic right.

When Politics Trumps the Uniform: How MP Government Is Blocking Justice in Vijay Shah Case

Nearly 15 months after calling Colonel Sofiya Qureshi a terrorist’s sister, MP minister Vijay Shah faces no action. The Mohan Yadav government continues to block his prosecution, defying a Supreme Court SIT report and risking potential judicial ire
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Corruption in Judiciary: Apex Court’s changing attitude

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi has granted permission to CBI to investigate corruption charges against a sitting judge of Allahabad High Court....

Kamal Nath stuns euphoric BJP: but what next?

Congress Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Kamal Nath had a symbolic victory on July 24 when two BJP members voted along with Congress members...

Can Mahua Moitra and Nusrat Jahan’s firebrand and secular image help TMC sail through turbulent time?

Trinamool Congress (TMC), the party which had been on its back foot since the results of Lok Sabha elections were declared, on May 23....

MP government’s move to bury the Vyapam scam

In its manifesto for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, last year, the Congress promised constitution of a Jana Aayog (People’s Commission) comprising legal experts,...

Is Torture part of police investigation?

Stan Swamy, one of the accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, whose house was raided twice by Pune police written a piece, which we...

End of Dialogue and Atmosphere of Disconnection in the rural life of ‘New India’

Bambhola came to me, an android phone in hands, to say that the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart, Imran Khan...
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