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Why campuses must be kept free of party politics

India, March 20 -- For decades, the courts in India have worried that "campus politics" encourage "tension and lawlessness" at the cost of "academic atmosphere". Kerala, which has experienced hundreds... Read More


Must Lutyens fall so that Bharat can rise again?

India, March 6 -- Edwin Lutyens has been expelled from Rashtrapati Bhavan, the iconic structure he designed. His bust has been cast into one of our substandard museums, and its place has been taken by... Read More


What Japan has meant to India, through a lens of history

India, Feb. 21 -- Japan has resoundingly elected as its first-ever female prime minister, an iron-willed conservative with a fondness for heavy metal and fast cars. Sanae Takaichi's sudden ascent and ... Read More


Xi's 'rejuvenating China' vision hits demographic wall

India, Feb. 6 -- In times of chaos, quiet developments that should provoke reflection are easily missed. So it is with the news that China's birth rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1949. Over ... Read More


The national anthem before our national anthem was adopted

India, Jan. 23 -- Republic Day is upon us. But when we hear Jana Gana Mana play, we would do well to remember that there was a time when people questioned whether India would ever have its own nationa... Read More


Reserving the right to counter foreign media narratives

India, Jan. 9 -- There has been a noticeable change in how much - and how pointedly - the foreign press reports on India. In the past, as the adage had it, a story from the subcontinent wasn't newswor... Read More


Higher education in India: Why making our universities great again won't be easy

India, Dec. 26 -- The 2026 Times Higher Education rankings make for grim reading. Not one Indian university features in the world's top 200 universities. By contrast, Japan has five, South Korea has s... Read More