T K Arun AI will enable new human activity not imagined hitherto, to realise that potential, education must train young minds to develop critical thinking and imagination Israel has bombed the 365 sq km of Gaza into death, devastation and…
T.K. Arun Data-centre tax holidays represent oodles of government cash to favoured Indian businesses for little public benefit The 21-year tax holiday doled out by the Union Budget to foreign firms that do data centre business in India should be rolled back,…
Protecting young users and democratic discourse requires platform accountability, not age bans that are hard to enforce and easy to evade. T.K. Arun The plans to ban social media access for young people are misguided. There is no disputing the harm that…
Urvashi Prasad India’s Union Health Budget 2026-27 and the release of the country’s first evidence based lung cancer guidelines have sparked important conversations about whether our health system is keeping pace with global standards. These announcements are not just policy…
The Strauss-Howe generational theory suggests that every 80 years or so, civilisations undergo an archetypal generational shift. This theory aligns with the cyclical approach of Indic traditions, which are unlike the linear Western traditions. As we enter the 80th year of Independence in 2026, our nation stands at the cusp of a new social, political, and economic climate.
What do you call someone who comes down like a tonne of bricks on ambitious youngsters with career aspirations but crumbles like a cookie in the face of a market-leading company flexing its dominance? The rest of the world terms them bullies. In India, we call them regulators.
Manorama BakshiArjun Kumar As India navigates the transformative journey toward becoming the world’s third-largest economy by 2027, the benchmarks of national progress are undergoing a fundamental shift. No longer can “development” be viewed solely through the prism of industrial output…