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Editorial

The mathematics of two GDP estimates that govt presented

12-09-2026

Ever since the government released the estimates of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) for the first quarter (April-June) of the current fiscal year on August 31, claims and counterclaims have been made regarding the veracity of the data.

A modernist who wrote about sex in the most ethereal way

12-09-2026

Time changes, and with changing times, individuals change and evolve as do societal perceptions. What was a taboo a century ago is today’s truth. What was frowned upon in the past is a statement of freedom in this age.

Don’t favour big players at the cost of ordinary investors

11-09-2026

India’s capital markets were never meant to be a private club for institutions. They grew because ordinary Indians trusted them to be open, transparent, and fair. That trust is now under strain. SEBI is reshaping the rules in ways that make life smoother for large players, while increasingly leaving retail traders and small investors to absorb the shocks.

U-turn isn’t always a frailty, it can be good economics too

11-09-2026

The Reserve Bank of India recently gave a small but revealing lesson in economic policymaking. On August 5, Governor Sanjay Malhotra was asked whether the special FCNR(B) scheme, designed to attract foreign currency deposits from non-resident Indians, might be closed before its scheduled September 30 deadline. He said there was no proposal to do so. Nine days later, the RBI abruptly advanced the closing date to August 31.

Power, greed & death of a system

11-09-2026

There cannot be anything more tragic than seeing young lives get snuffed out in their prime due to the gross negligence and greed of the very institutions built to protect them. The collapse of the 5-storey PG hostel at Delhi’s Satya Niketan, where, so far, 6 students have lost their lives and many remain buried under the debris, is the latest example of this human fallibility.

German far right on the rise

11-09-2026

Alarm bells are ringing across Europe as the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has come within striking distance of forming Germany’s first state government since the Second World War. The xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and pro-Russian AfD—which took shape in the wake of the 2010 eurozone debt and banking crises—is only three seats short of an outright majority in the legislature in the eastern province of Saxony-Anhalt after Sunday’s elections.

25 years after 9/11: How one morning rewired the world

10-09-2026

If you were alive and awake on September 11, 2001, you would remember two things: the images and the weird, quiet feeling that the world had just changed its operating system while you were watching it live. It has now been 25 years. We are not here to re-litigate the wars or the politics; we are here to ask a brand question: How did that one Tuesday change the daily texture of life for 8 billion people?

Indonesia’s biodiesel push unlikely to hurt India soon

10-09-2026

In one of the world’s most aggressive biofuel pushes, Indonesia has announced B60 for implementation in 2027, even before fully achieving the mandatory B50 target rolled out in July 2026. B50 is conventional mineral diesel blended with 50% vegetable oil-based biodiesel. Indonesia uses palm oil-derived fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) for blending. The plan simply builds on the country’s earlier launch of the B30, B35, and B40 programmes.

Maps: No easy way out

10-09-2026

Map correction is not an easy task. The United Nations must have realised this soon after adopting a resolution to promote equal-area map projections that more accurately show the true size of Africa and other continents. The resolution, a bold attempt to correct a centuries-old cartographic distortion, was supported by 164 countries, with only the United States opposing it and six abstaining.

HC warning to Yogi’s police

10-09-2026

The Allahabad High Court judgement of September 2, castigating the Uttar Pradesh police and senior bureaucracy for imposing the brutal National Security Act (NSA) on student leader Akriti Choudhury, who was among the leaders of the April Noida labour unrest for higher wages, has to be welcomed. What followed the labour strike was a brutal assault resulting in the unprecedented arrest of over 200 labourers and some leaders, including Akriti, under stringent laws.

A shift in public discourse is a positive sign for Indian politics

09-09-2026

India is witnessing a pleasant change in its public discourse, including the media, and the credit for it should go partly to former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg. The debate was about whether the GDP data provided by the central government was genuine.

It’s not always the authorities’ fault, we too are irresponsible

09-09-2026

Outside Bollywood’s caricatures, the excitement involving life and death is rarely appreciated. Yet, Indian roads have become dangerous—potholes, wrong-way drivers, buses stopping unpredictably, two-wheelers squeezing through tight gaps, and motorists disregarding lane discipline have turned daily travel into a test of endurance.