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Sunday, February 22, 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

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.