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Editorial

On public land as public asset, a few questions for the BMC

15-08-2026

Dear BMC and Maharashtra government, your handling of land and land-related issues in Mumbai is getting more and more confusing, opaque, and illogical by the day. The saying is that the left hand does not know what the right does, but, in your case, it seems that both hands know perfectly well what’s being done and why; it’s only us, the people of Mumbai, who are deliberately kept in the dark or confused. So, here are a few questions.

India’s generations are living different realities today

15-08-2026

The other day, I heard someone describe the older generation as though they had been imported from another planet. They apparently do not understand work-life balance, do not talk enough about feelings, stayed too long in one organisation and, in the final indignity, still ask their children how to use an app. Every generation eventually invents a vocabulary for its own superiority, then wonders how the previous one managed to survive without it.

CAS: Has SEBI in its zest put the cart before the horse?

14-08-2026

The Closing Auction Session, or CAS, met the market on August 3. Within days, traders began complaining about sharp and unfamiliar movements around the close. Questions were there about price discovery and the interaction between the cash and derivatives markets. SEBI has made it clear there will be no rollback and has asked brokers to educate investors about the new system. A campaign by traders on social media, calling for a one-day trading boycott, demonstrates their woes.

The colour coup: Saffron jersey and nationalism in sports

14-08-2026

Just before the Indian hockey team departed for the World Cup in Belgium, we were presented the team in new saffron jerseys. Slowly and creepily, the traditional blue jersey India wore was thrown aside and replaced with a distinctly nationalistic saffron jersey. What made matters worse was that the president of the hockey federation, Dileep Tirkey, who had played with distinction for India as a defender, was himself unaware of this change in national colours. Clearly it was a colour coup.

Protests shouldn’t be reduced to Ranchi vs Jantar Mantar

13-08-2026

In Ranchi, a young man who has cleared prelims multiple times but never seen a final appointment list lies on a stretcher, his body weakened by nine days without food. Around him, women wipe tear-gas from their eyes while still clutching

B’desh’s India reset is about more than mere diplomacy

13-08-2026

The first signs of a reset in India-Bangladesh relations have arrived not through a grand summit or a formal agreement but through two carefully choreographed meetings in Dhaka.

Education must be creative, affordable and innovative

12-08-2026

The equilibrium, which had shifted towards the right, seems to be moving towards the centre. But don’t be impatient. It will not happen overnight. The empire will fight back, the ideology will retaliate, and revenge will be sought.

Life beyond parental pressure and societal expectations

12-08-2026

Recently, actor Aamir Khan shared that to his children—Junaid, Ira, and Azad—he is not a superstar but simply a parent who wants them to grow into confident, sensitive, and emotionally strong individuals.

Politics needs far-reaching reforms, not whimsical fixes

11-08-2026

The Supreme Court Bench hearing the dispute between Shiv Sena factions in Maharashtra has made certain observations regarding the relationship between elected legislators and the political party which nominated them as candidates for elective office.

What to take away from the credit policy of the RBI

11-08-2026

The credit policy announced was on expected lines, and, hence, there was no surprise. The repo rate was kept unchanged, and the stance kept neutral. Is there something that can be taken from the statement presented by the RBI?

‘Times they are a-changin’, there’s still hope for us all

10-08-2026

A whiff of fresh air is blowing through the country. For the first time in twelve years it seems as though the sense of fearlessness shown by Gen Z has helped galvanise the nation and renewed our faith in our democratic traditions.

Anger needn’t be destructive, it can have its advantages too

10-08-2026

We’ve been reading that anger is an emotion that invites danger. Interestingly, ‘anger’ is one letter short of ‘danger’. But behavioural psychologists are of the view that no (human) emotion is absolutely good or bad. Just like ‘sex’ as a raw emotion can be sublimated into great creativity and become ‘apex’, ‘anger’ can also be creatively used as a positive emotion, provided we understand its potential and limit(s).