scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Friday, November 21, 2025
HomeSG National Interest

SG National Interest

8,618

As The Indian Express editor for nearly 19 years, I have been the biggest beneficiary of its freedom and space, and National Interest has run uninterrupted barring some short periods of intellectual boredom.

The audacity of incompetence

The greatest mystery of these 30 years, however, is how and why, with such elaborate planning, the army brass miscalculated on Blue Star so horribly.

Talk less

After winning such a clear, affirmative verdict, the last thing PM Modi needs is to fritter away his freshly earned political capital with needless and irrelevant controversy.

Modi: Your time starts now

Modi has run a brilliant and single-minded campaign. People have gifted him the power to change history, to mould it in his image and he needs to handle this very carefully.

Taking the poor out of Poorvanchal

In the heartland, one utterly fascinating collateral benefit of the flourishing of quality education is also the rise of the teacher as the new star and brand.

There’s an aeroplane on my roof

It can break your heart to tell the story of the terminal decline of a state you so love, where you grew up and...

Anticipating India

A selection of the pieces from the book (HarperCollins Publishers India and Express Book Series) that foreshadowed the big changes.

When Mary Kom stares down at Narendra Modi

Writings on the wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly, but not necessarily, during elections (for earlier writings, see goo.gl/v83OBh,...

Gogoi, the only Congressman smiling…

If success in Assam was a determinant of a leader’s ability, Tarun Gogoi is the Congress party’s Narendra Modi. Except, it isn’t in the Congress culture to acknowledge this.

Me captain, you team: very vain, very effective

Come election time, and politicians become the very epitome of humility and grace before the voter. Not a tiger, but a 'bheegi billi'. But not Imran Khan.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.