India needs an education revolution that enables us to advantage from the demographic dividend not by churning out more graduates but by producing more people who know how to build, repair, design, heal, create and solve
India and China need disciplined management of a relationship too consequential for either side to allow to drift into permanent hostility
In a country as vulnerable to diet-related diseases as India awareness of what is in our food is not a lifestyle choice, it is a public health imperative
The Himalayas are now breeding new peril owing to climate change, with high-altitude disasters that are not periodic aberrations anymore
The facile dominance the BJP has enjoyed over India's polity over 12 years is showing signs of wear in ways that would be unwise to ignore
The CJP's growth pangs, whatever form they take, will offer a mirror to how India absorbs the political energy of that youth, and will shape the next decades of its democracy more than any single election
These 50 exceptional women are not exceptions, but a part of a much larger shift happening across India, wherever Indian women are choosing to live on their own terms
To walk away from the extraordinary nutritional value of eggs on cultural grounds that are not shared is folly that deprives millions of children of the nutrition they need
PM Modi has formidable tasks arrayed on the electoral, legislative and governance fronts. The challenge he faces now is qualitatively different from anything that came before
When systems break down and the State's response is silence or police batons, disenchantment can harden into disengagement from the powers that be
As the film gets widely shared and watched, the debate has moved beyond the politics of the ban itself: taboo to some and necessary revelation to others
The idea of 'consent' has not fully taken root in a society that historically viewed women as property, and often still does
Violating the silent covenant between the institution and the millions who gave it their hard-earned money is not just corruption but a desecration of what the temple represents
India Today's 30th annual Best Colleges Survey not only assesses colleges by the quality of education, but also how they are responding to the AI era
The Iran war has just shown, at considerable national cost, what happens when foundational questions about food and energy security are deferred indefinitely
Deregulation, if carried through with the vigour shown so far, could yet prove to be the most enduring achievement of PM Modi's historic third term
The old habit of "Googling your symptoms", now supercharged by generative AI, led to such a dangerous surge in self diagnosis and self medication
The NEET crisis is not merely about leaked papers or rogue actors gaming the system, failure of such institutions demoralise the young who are striving for a better future
India has weathered crises before by combining policy agility, institutional confidence and citizen resilience. This moment will require all three.
Governance exposes whether a politician can move from mobilisation to delivery, from grievance to growth, from winning power to using it
