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Rise of Nitin Nabin: A subtle renewal of the BJP-RSS bond

28-12-2025

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to appoint 45-year-old Nitin Nabin as national working president on December 14, 2025, stands as a landmark in the party’s organisational history, symbolising a delicate yet profound renewal in its relationship with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

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How repealing MNREGA will affect the workers in India

28-12-2025

MGNREGA, introduced in 2006, had emerged as the largest programme in the world for providing employment to the rural poor. Statistics show that within a short span of its first ten years, it helped generate 20 billion person-days of employment, benefitting 276 million workers, of which more than half were women.

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Right to work under NREGA was not merely a slogan

27-12-2025

The passage of the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025, called the VB-G RAM G Bill, marks a decisive break from one of India’s most consequential pieces of social legislation.

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Rahul or Priyanka? Congress seems divided on the issue

27-12-2025

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has long been the great white hope of the Congress rank-and-file. In declaring her as prime minister material, Saharanpur MP Imran Masood was expressing the party workers’ belief that she alone can take on the BJP.

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Durani: A life with an unusual beginning and a really sad end

25-12-2025

There are some Indian cricketers who are looked upon with awe, like Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, and others who are worshipped, specifically Sachin Tendulkar, aka the God of Cricket.

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With BJP firmly in the saddle, will the reunions matter?

25-12-2025

All of a sudden, it is a big news-events season in Maharashtra’s politics. In a dramatic manner, the estranged Thackeray cousins, as well as Maharashtra’s biggest political family, the Pawars, have decided to unite.

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Basic requirement for growth: Fresh mind and healthy lungs

24-12-2025

In many Indian cities today, especially the NCR, breathing has quietly become a calculated risk. Citizens have become unwilling risk managers, checking pollution apps the way previous generations checked the weather.
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With High Command without command, who runs Cong?

24-12-2025

While the Congress continues to dither on resolving the Karnataka imbroglio over the leadership issue, party chief Mallikarjun Kharge has stoked a new debate by saying that the High Command would take the final call on this matter.

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It is better to be wrong than safe for failure educates us

23-12-2025

There is a question I keep asking people in boardrooms, living rooms, and occasionally over bad conference coffee. The answers are many, but none are satisfactory enough to close the discussion.

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Five unfounded fears of 2025 since tariffs were imposed

23-12-2025

The year 2025 started off on a shocking note with the economic war being evoked by the US President in the form of tariffs. It is this theme which has cast a shadow on the world economy, warring nations, central banks and governments, as all policies have paid obeisance to this major disruption.

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At 250, Jane Austen remains an inspiration to millions

20-12-2025

The world of book lovers is celebrating the 250th birth anniversary of Jane Austen, one of the most influential writers of all time—she was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, the seventh of eight children.

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Despite energy job surge, AI anxiety on the rise in India

20-12-2025

Niels Bohr once remarked that prediction is difficult, especially about the future—a line that captures today’s debate on artificial intelligence. AI has become a global amplifier of hopes and fears, and the fear that dominates public imagination is that machines will take away human jobs.