When the United States recently invoked the Monroe Doctrine to justify action against Venezuela, many historians were taken aback. Long considered a relic of 19th-century geopolitics, the doctrine...
Public debates in India often treat economic equality as a dangerous idea — a distraction from poverty reduction, a threat to entrepreneurship, a pathway to bureaucratic overreach, or...
In global trade debates, “dumping” is often dismissed as a red herring: after all, goods enter a country because domestic laws allow imports and buyers exist. Yet dumping...
When Donald Trump announced U.S. military action against Venezuela from Mar-a-Lago, the language he employed left little ambiguity about the political tone or strategic intent. Framing the operation...
Electric vehicles dominate today’s low-carbon transport narrative, but two decades ago, biofuels were widely seen as the future. The idea was appealing: instead of extracting oil, societies could...
When Tiruvalluvar observed that education is futile unless it enables one to live meaningfully in society, he articulated a civilisational idea of learning that remains strikingly relevant. As...
India’s aspiration to become a Viksit Bharat and a $30 trillion economy by 2047 rests not only on infrastructure, technology, or manufacturing growth, but on the quality of...
The floods that inundated North Bihar in 2024 were not an aberration. They were part of a familiar cycle that shapes livelihoods, housing choices, and survival strategies across...
A decade after India announced the licensing of Small Finance Banks (SFBs), the experiment appears, at first glance, to be a regulatory success. Unlike several earlier banking categories...
