Editorials

The perils of translation

Failures to translate words without considering the cultural context, historical...

Column by Devdutt Pattanaik | How Vasudeva became Vishnu

From Indo-Greek coins to a four-armed soldier and a granite relief, tracing the ...

The Great Nicobar project and a Ministry in knots

The Union Environment Ministry has ignored scientific rigour and procedural prop...

​Tepid relief: On the end of the shutdown in the U.S.

The ending of the shutdown does not preclude other crises

Flexible inflation targeting, a good balance

Deriving acceptable rates of inflation that are consistent with growth prospects...

Double engine: On the Bihar Assembly election 2025 result

Welfare schemes implemented close to the polls in Bihar helped the NDA

India’s deep-tech democracy for inclusive AI

The country is democratising deep tech through shared compute, open data, and de...

All that matters is showing up

This obsession with attendance raises an uncomfortable question: has education b...

Romancing the book

It offers not just stories but also a sense of comfort, identity, and emotional ...

Used books were a blessing

Reuse, recycle and reduce of waste is no longer a virtue especially in the case ...

The writer’s predicament

In these fraught times, they should balance courage with caution, purpose with p...