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Poor policy gives a good biofuel bad rep

Published on Aug 23, 2026 08:52 IST

The government ought to carefully weigh its current ethanol incentive structure, which is tilted towards two water-guzzling crops: sugarcane and rice.

A double burden for women in dengue season

Almost 70% of community health workers are women who work at risk of contracting diseases themselves to deliver care. Yet, this labour is rarely acknowledged or paid adequately.

Updated on Aug 23, 2026 08:53 IST

Democratic transmission of street-to-statute is breaking

Streets are the spaces where citizens without wealth or privileged access make invisible grievances politically visible. The danger is not that citizens bypass Parliament but that Parliament fails to absorb what they say.

Published on Aug 22, 2026 02:44 IST

A new playbook for sports governance

Cricket’s commercial success is best read as a demonstration of what strong governance, broadcast innovation, and investor confidence can do for a sport.

Published on Aug 22, 2026 02:44 IST

The promise and peril of the global city in our times

In a rapidly urbanising world, a city that fails to address human needs risks becoming not a great metropolis but a necropolis.

Published on Aug 22, 2026 02:43 IST

Opinion: What's the price a soldier pays for your “taxes”?

The woman who argued with the Indian Army officers.

Published on Aug 21, 2026 04:04 IST

IndiGo’s transition plan has one risk too many: ‘Unrealistic ambitions’

With a new CEO, HR chief, chief financial officer, and chief of strategy, among others, a big new challenge at this stage might be biting off more than it can chew.

Published on Aug 21, 2026 03:24 IST

All of us should have the right to age with dignity

It is often said that India will grow old before it grows rich. The real question is whether it can afford to grow old before it builds the guardrails for dignified ageing.

Published on Aug 21, 2026 03:24 IST

Focus on ‘greatness’ to Iran deal: Trump may escape the consequences of his mess

In the past, a president who showed so little concern for the welfare of the American people would pay a price in the mid-term elections.

Published on Aug 21, 2026 03:23 IST

The AI race: can India turn sunlight into intelligence?

India has plentiful solar potential, and it is already putting it to use. But that is not sufficient since the sun shines only during the day. Investing in energy storage at scale could turn India’s daytime solar glut into a continuous baseload for AI data centers. (Reuters)

Published on Aug 21, 2026 02:30 IST

India’s photographic identity: Who gets to tell this tale?

The test is not whether a picture is well composed. It is whether you are actually interested in telling something through it, or only about making your presence felt. A ladder left lying flat against a soot-blackened wall, something small and dried caught between its rungs, is not the kind of photograph anyone posts under a festival’s name. It asks nothing of the viewer except to notice it was there.

Published on Aug 20, 2026 05:40 IST

Need to root public health education in Indian realities

Public health functions broadly include health surveillance, protection, promotion, planning, regulation, services organisation, delivery, and evaluation, and requires a wide gamut of workforce trained in public health nutrition, occupational and environmental health, epidemiology and biostatistics, health administration and management, informatics, social sciences, economics, and policy analysis. (Photo for representation)

Published on Aug 20, 2026 05:40 IST

Sanction-proofing India’s interests and autonomy

Sanctions can serve legitimate security purposes. But India should challenge coercion that travels far beyond the country imposing it. (Photo for representation)

Published on Aug 20, 2026 05:39 IST

Is Claude down - or am I just waiting?

Every AI service will experience outages, congestion or inconsistent performance.

Updated on Aug 19, 2026 07:16 IST

Changing how insurance business is done in India

Despite decades of high-cost distribution, insurance penetration remains stubbornly low.

Published on Aug 19, 2026 04:31 IST

Ukraine aces drone game, but may lose ballistic match

Ukraine’s long-range drones have struck targets as deep as 2,500 km inside Russia, reaching locations like Moscow and St Petersburg, among others.

Published on Aug 19, 2026 04:31 IST

India should rethink how it taxes R&D investment

India aims to become a developed economy by 2047. Achieving this goal will require sustained investment in knowledge creation, scientific discovery and technological innovation.

Published on Aug 19, 2026 04:31 IST

A forced pause for India’s solar power generation

If India doesn’t want to pause its renewable generation, one solution that has been talked about is to temporarily mothball a few of the country’s inefficient coal-based plants. But that doesn’t seem possible given demand during non-solar hours.

Published on Aug 18, 2026 01:18 IST

Ecological equity needs constitutional protection

Justice-oriented forest governance model must recognise circularity — the ecological rule that every right over a forest must carry a responsibility to sustain its regeneration.

Published on Aug 18, 2026 01:18 IST

After Chandrasekaran, the true test for the Tatas

The Tata group has survived leadership transitions before. It will survive this one too. It needs to emerge from this transition stronger.

Published on Aug 18, 2026 01:17 IST

Ecostani: Centre’s mines amendment bill a blow to federal consultation

Parl passes minerals bill

Updated on Aug 17, 2026 09:59 IST

The radical idea of women who play just for fun

Priyanka Parasher for Mint

Published on Aug 17, 2026 02:30 IST

India @79: Much is done, much remains to be done

If we need to maintain a balance in our demography, we must create employment opportunities in the villages. Along with secure borders, we need to ensure social and environmental security with equal sensitivity.

Published on Aug 17, 2026 02:22 IST

More autonomy for the IITs will benefit India

The IIT system became one of post-independence India’s greatest institutional achievements. Its graduates built domestic industries, helped power Silicon Valley and rose to lead some of the world’s most influential technology companies.

Published on Aug 17, 2026 02:22 IST

Mecca pact: Interests primary, not alliances

Holding grudges is the opposite of geopolitical agility, and they limit our options in a multi-aligned world.

Updated on Aug 17, 2026 02:21 IST

Dil Chahta Hai’s to Animal: The loss of vulnerable men

Farhan Akhtar’s 25-years-old landmark film also told us that it was okay for these men to be sad, to cry. It was perfectly cool for men portraying characters who did not care much for serious issues in life to also show their vulnerable side. (HT Archive)

Updated on Aug 16, 2026 16:04 IST

India’s entrance exams emulate Sorting Hat’s opaque decision-making

When lakhs of teenagers are told that their futures depend on an instrument whose inner workings are mysterious and whose difficulty can shift year to year, and whose administering body faces no real consequence for errors, opacity itself becomes a source of psychological harm. Students cannot prepare rationally for a process they cannot see. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)

Published on Aug 16, 2026 15:53 IST

The factory township that birthed an education hub

Company townships have produced some of the best human capital in this country. They understood something very basic about urban planning.

Updated on Aug 16, 2026 02:27 IST

Tales of ‘brilliant’ men, and ‘perfect victims’

The Bombay High Court judgment is a remarkable piece of legislation that rejects the notion of a “perfect victim” and should become a template on how to adjudicate on rape cases.

Updated on Aug 16, 2026 02:24 IST

How Doon shapes its young students

What made Doon special was that each of us was treated like an individual. I never felt one of many. I was always aware of my identity, preferences and interests.

Updated on Aug 16, 2026 02:24 IST

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