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Opinion

Popcorn Paradox

India’s Goods and Services Tax, introduced with the promise of simplifying the tax structure, has once again come under scrutiny.

Inflation’s Reckoning

The year 2024 will be remembered as a period of extraordinary global transformation. At the heart of this upheaval was the persistent sting of inflation, which, despite moderating in many economies, left a lasting impact on the political and social fabric of nations, including India.

Power of No

The Dark Mountain Manifesto is Planet Earth’s cri de coeur against grotesque inequality and vandalization of nature. It was written by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine after two years of conversation and launched at a small riverside gathering outside Oxford in 2009.

Critical need for women’s community bathrooms

While construction of toilets has received a lot of attention in India’s sanitation campaigns in recent times, another important sanitation need, that of bathrooms, has not received the same attention.

Imran’s ultimatum

While Imran Khan has called off his long march through Pakistan, the former Prime Minister has palpably stiffened his stance by giving a six-day ultimatum to the government in Islamabad to dissolve the National Assembly and announce the date for fresh elections.

From marksmanship to political stridency

The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.