How Big Shifts Are Remaking the World
A remarkable feature of the world in the wake of President Trump’s assault on the global trading and security system is the resilience of global interdependence.
TK Arun
TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
FDI in E-commerce Inventory Can Work—If It’s Export-Focused
The government is considering allowing e-commerce companies with foreign direct investment to hold inventory, strictly for the purpose of exports. This is welcome. The government should go ahead and convert the proposal into policy action.
The G2 Illusion: Why Dual Global Hegemony Remains Elusive
Multiple other power centres operate in the world are crystallising, and it's time India stepped up its R&D efforts to keep pace.
A command by the leader of the world's most powerful nation to resume nuclear testing is not meant to offer reassurance. But that is precisely what US President Donald Trump's instruction to his Department of War provides to anyone who took his reference to G2, prior to his summit with China, a little too literally.
India’s Renewable Push: The Perils of Taking Shortcuts
The Adani group is entering the battery energy storage system business, with an initial planned capacity of 1.126GW of power, capable of delivering that power for around three hours. This solves two kinds of problems, but creates two larger ones, of supply-chain dependence on China and significant indirect emissions of the kind green energy is supposed to avoid.
Macaulay and English Education: Where PM Modi’s Account Falls Short
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets it wrong on Macaulay. Give the devil his due. His introduction of English language education in India is one of the good things colonialism did for India. It paved the way for Indians to enter the world of modern knowledge, to savour the fruits of the scientific revolution that swept across Europe and turned the world of scholarship upside down in the 16th and 17th centuries, and for the oppressed castes of India to enter the world of learning, from which Indian tradition had excluded them, and for the enrichment and growth of India’s regional languages and cultures. English education introduced Indians to the concepts of liberty, equality and fraternity, totally alien to monarchy and the caste system.
Bihar Boost for NDA, Cautious Optimism on US Trade Deal
Bihar has presented the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in charge at the Centre a sterling electoral victory. Nitish Kumar has been sworn in as chief minister for the 10th time.
The fact that the NDA has won all, save two, state assembly elections held since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections serves, in the eyes of many, to shake off doubts about the stability of the ruling coalition created by the BJP’s failure to secure a simple majority, leave alone the two-thirds majority it had been seeking.