There is an increasingly uncomfortable question the Modi government needs to confront. What exactly must an ordinary Indian do before the government considers his or her anger worthy of serious political attention? Millions of Indians go to work, pay their taxes, obey the law, vote, participate
The controversy that erupted in T. Narasipura in Mysuru district should never have required a complicated political debate. Ganpati celebrations were under way, organisers were preparing for processions and immersion, and the police were perfectly entitled to seek advance information about routes, timings and crowd sizes so that adequate security could be arranged. Those
Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves enormous credit for presiding over one of India’s most successful pieces of digital public infrastructure. UPI has changed how this country transacts. From the vegetable vendor and autorickshaw driver to the neighbourhood kirana shop, restaurant, professional and large retailer, scanning a QR code has become almost instinctive.
Matthew Aaron VanDyke did not arrive in India’s Northeast with the résumé of an innocent backpacker. The American founder of Sons of Liberty International had already moved through some of the world’s most violent theatres, from Libya to Ukraine, before Indian investigators say he travelled through India, entered the restricted areas of Mizoram and crossed […]
India is hosting BRICS 2026 at a moment when the country is no longer merely asking for a seat at the global table. It is increasingly helping shape the table itself. The summit represents a grouping that now speaks for a substantial part of the world’s population and economic output, while India arrives as one […]
A year ago, Indian cricket produced one of the strangest victory celebrations the sport had seen. India had beaten Pakistan by five wickets in the 2025 Asia Cup final in Dubai. The championship was won, the players were on the podium and the celebrations had begun. Yet captain Suryakumar Yadav never received the Asia Cup […]
The significance of the BRICS New Delhi Declaration is easy to miss if it is reduced to one sentence saying that the grouping condemned the Pahalgam terrorist attack. Countries across the world condemned the April 22, 2025 attack in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed. Another condemnation, viewed in isolation, might appear […]
When Tarun Kapoor, Advisor to the Prime Minister, said that ethanol production in India had gone “beyond our imagination” and was now more than what the country had planned for and more than what was required for blending, he unintentionally summed up one of the most astonishing policy failures of recent years. This was not […]
India has completed its 2,843-km Dedicated Freight Corridor network. That may sound like another major railway announcement, but the idea behind the project is actually quite simple. For decades, passenger trains and goods trains in India have largely used the same railway tracks. Passenger trains generally get priority, which means freight trains can be forced […]
India has spent years talking about polluted rivers, disappearing ponds, neglected lakes and crumbling traditional water structures. Governments announce missions, municipalities run cleanliness drives, activists raise alarms and social media regularly fills with photographs showing just how badly many local water bodies have been treated. Yet, in different parts of the








