TK Arun When mountains are measured by committees and metres, what’s under threat is not just geology but the idea of environmental protection itself. A rose, we have been told, is a rose. Mountains are different. Mountains tower over the…
TK Arun In a world without rules and rule-enforcers, India must build the strength to retain strategicautonomy. The US National Security Strategy 2025 document, released earlier this month, is more philosophy than strategy. That philosophy has no place for a…
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.
TK Arun Work within parameters of globalised growth, instead of ranting and raving against it. The four labour codes long in the making have finally been notified. The good thing is that a legal framework now exists for a company…
The stock market indices in India continue to be below their record high reached in September 2024. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) frenzy in the US keeps its market indices elevated and buoyant. Other markets rise in sympathy, or, at least, avoid sharp falls. In any case, an IPO boom continues in India.
No, not for the Israel-Hamas peace deal, which might yet unravel, but for systematically undermining, from within, the greatest imperial power the world has ever known.
US President Donald Trump has been campaigning for a Nobel Peace Prize for some time now, claim have ended seven wars, and now, the eighth one in Gaza. Instead of seeing the plain logic in giving the award to a man who has changed the name of the Department of Defence to the Department of War, the Nobel Committee has given it to a democratic campaigner in Venezuela.