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Saturday, November 22, 2025
TopicIndia's intellectuals

Topic: India's intellectuals

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

In Tejas Dubai crash, the harm goes beyond the loss of an aircraft and pilot

Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.

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.

From a small Kangra village to Tejas cockpit: IAF fighter pilot Namansh Syal’s journey cut short

Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.