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SubscriberWrites: The Fourth Largest Economy and the Politics of Poverty

It is spoken with pride, as though the number itself were proof of progress. Yet the cartoon asks the only question that matters: for whom?

SubscriberWrites: Trump’s Board of Peace & Corporatization of the Resolution of International Conflicts/Wars

Trump's call for a Board of Peace initiative to resolve conflicts globally sounds like a corporate version of the UNO.

SubscriberWrites: Gender Inequality: The Invisible Fault Line That Shapes Every Conflict

A stark manifestation of gender inequality in the Manipur conflict is the use of women as tools of warfare by both warring communities.

SubscriberWrites: Eyes Everywhere, Terror Nowhere: The Silent Rise of Central Agencies in New Kashmir

Post-2019, central intelligence agencies rapidly expanded their operational reach, coordination, and analytical depth across Jammu & Kashmir.

SubscriberWrites: Climate diplomacy in 2026: how to pay for survival in a world that is falling apart.

The science is clear, the effects are becoming clearer, but politics, economics, and a new world order are still getting in the way of the world’s response.

SubscriberWrites: Strategic autonomy cannot be imported. It must be built.

In a democracy, reforms must be sold, first to the people, then to the bureaucracy, and finally to the opposition.

SubscriberWrites: Beyond Labels: A Message for Our Times

With access to global knowledge and voices, this generation can rise above inherited fears and artificial divisions—and see people as people, not categories.

SubscriberWrites: Sovereignty on trial—Venezuela, Maduro & the ghosts of regime change

Maduro’s capture by the US raises troubling questions about sovereignty, selective justice and the growing use of international law as an instrument of power rather than restraint.

SubscriberWrites: Vande Mataram and the theatre of power—What the Goa assembly revealed

In Goa’s Assembly, Vande Mataram turned into a loyalty test rather than a shared sentiment, exposing how symbolism is used to mask failed governance and enforce obedience.

SubscriberWrites: When politics walks onto the field

From the Mustafizur Rahman–IPL row to Olympic boycotts and World Cups, the uneasy, often unavoidable entanglement of sports and politics resurfaces once again.

On Camera

India’s tech ambitions need private sector investment in R&D. Budget 2026 holds the key

India’s private sector remains hesitant to invest in R&D. This is understandable, as the domestic market often fails to reward differentiated technologies adequately.

SEBI green-lights NSE IPO. What exchange’s CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan revealed about next steps

Speaking at ThePrint OTC Thursday, NSE CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan said the exchange has been trying to list itself since 2016, but it couldn’t happen due to one reason or the other.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.