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Why AI-managed conservation is repeating colonial mistakes

24-06-2026

Decades ago, political scientist James C. Scott wrote Seeing Like a State, a book that should be mandatory reading for anyone currently obsessed with “Smart Forestry”. In it, he describes how 18th-century Prussian foresters grew tired of the unruly, unmappable chaos of the woods.

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When the money flows like a river, democracy drowns

24-06-2026

“All money corrupts, and big money corrupts bigly.” Oliver Bullough, the British investigative journalist and author who wrote this in his book Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back, sharply adapted Lord Acton’s famous warning about power:
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India’s credit policy provides a boost to forex inflows

23-06-2026

How can the triple sundae with the layers of incentives for FPI, ECBs and FCNR (B) deposits be interpreted? The view held so far has been that the external position of the economy is fairly resilient, with the reserves covering 11 months of imports.

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Students with disabilities in higher edu is a grim scenario

23-06-2026

In March 2025, the Supreme Court of India appointed a National Task Force 2025 ‘to address the mental health concerns of students and prevent the commission of suicides in higher educational institutions’ in the wake of an ‘epidemic’ of student suicides in the country.

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Tall mountains inspire dwarf men to lead a better way of life

22-06-2026

There is something deeply humbling about climbing a mountain and going on a Dham yatra in Dev Bhoomi, Uttarakhand. Recently, during the Tungnath trek, I pushed my body to climb nearly 3400 feet, about 4 kilometres, in just over three-and-a-half hours.
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The Correspondent: Glimpses of a life lived through letters

22-06-2026

The Women’s Prize for Fiction this year was awarded to The Correspondent by Virgina Evans, a book that has also been on the bestseller list for several months.

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Who speaks for all things Marathi in Mumbai now?

20-06-2026

A stone’s throw away from Mumbai’s famous Shivaji Park, revered as much by politicians as budding cricketers, sat the low-rise building Kadam Niwas. In its modestly appointed house of the Thackerays, on a typically heavy rain day of June 19, 1966,

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Why the INDIA bloc matters now more than ever before

20-06-2026

The INDIA bloc’s first meeting on June 8 predictably ended with a familiar message of Opposition unity. Of the 28 parties that had come together to challenge the BJP three years ago, only 23 attended the gathering in Delhi last week.

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SEBI has all the powers, but where is the accountability?

19-06-2026

The recent action involving Rajesh Exports, where allegations of overstatement of revenues by ₹15 lakh crore were made, has reopened an old debate. Since the matter has not attained finality, no conclusions should be drawn about this specific case. However, this episode again raises questions that India cannot ignore.

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The government must fix the ESCI and not move to sell it

19-06-2026

The latest Sample Registration System data should worry every policymaker. In 2024, nearly half of all recorded deaths in India occurred without medical attention from a trained professional.

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A good comeback to CJI, but CJP is fated to be evanescent

18-06-2026

Not even in his wildest dream Chief Justice of India Surya Kanth would have imagined that his drawing of a parallel between unemployed youth and cockroaches would trigger off a satirical riposte first and then assume a deluge on the virtual world.

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Why India’s financial capital must save itself from itself

18-06-2026

And why wearing Mumbai’s ‘resilience’ as a badge of honour harms us more than we think. Mumbai talks big about inevitability: India’s financial capital, the country’s commercial nerve centre, and the city that endures.