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Monday, April 6, 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

What is the cost of this ‘Nobody’s War’ in Iran? Morality

In the Mahabharata, Vidur says sacrifice is needed for the greater good. This begs the question: What is the 'greater good' in the Iran War?

Saudi Arabia raises price of main oil grade to Asia to a record high premium

Saudi Aramco will increase flagship Arab Light crude prices for May sales to a premium of $19.50 over regional benchmarks for refiners in Asia, still less than what traders anticipated.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

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.