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Saturday, April 4, 2026
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

This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.