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Sunday, December 21, 2025
TopicIndia's intellectuals

Topic: India's intellectuals

Indian intellectuals still can’t decode Narendra Modi

In Modi's Mission, Berjis Desai traces Modi’s national rise and why it unsettled India’s intellectual elite.

Indian intellectuals have a problem. They don’t care about facts

Whether a follower of Nehru, RSS, or Gandhi, the thought process remains the same—habitual curse or blind praise.

Who are India’s social science thinkers of the next decade? ThePrint Intellectuals List

A panel of jurors Shehla Rashid, Chandan Gowda, Manu PIllai, and Santosh Desai separately nominated a list of social science thinkers as part of ThePrint's list of India's next-gen intellectuals.

Who are India’s political thought leaders of the next decade? ThePrint Intellectuals List

A panel of jurors Vir Sanghvi, Milan Vaishnav, Yogendra Yadav, and Hilal Ahmed separately nominated a list of political thinkers as part of ThePrint's list of India's next-gen intellectuals.

Who are India’s economic thinkers of the next decade? ThePrint Intellectuals List

A panel of jurors Nandan Nilekani, Sanjay Reddy, Jaithirth Rao, Arvind Subramanian, and Montek Singh Ahluwalia separately nominated a list of economic thinkers as part of ThePrint's list of India's next-gen intellectuals.

Who are India’s strategic affairs thinkers of the next decade? ThePrint Intellectuals List

A panel of jurors Ram Madhav, Rudra Chaudhuri, TCA Raghavan, Swasti Rao, and C Raja Mohan separately nominated a list of geostrategic thinkers as part of ThePrint's list of India's next-gen intellectuals.

Why ThePrint list of gen-next intellectuals did not have any women nominators

All the women we approached said no, while very few men did that – all for their individual reasons.

This is the next generation of Indian intellectuals

India's next 51 top intellectuals, as chosen by Ramchandra Guha, Shashi Tharoor, Nandan Nilekani and others.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.