Protect ECI, question decisions: why the referee matters to democracy
In every game, you can abuse the player. You cannot abuse the referee. If you do, the game ends. Today in India, we are abusing the referee. The Election Commission…
In every game, you can abuse the player. You cannot abuse the referee. If you do, the game ends. Today in India, we are abusing the referee. The Election Commission…
2 min readOct 8, 2026 06:40 AM IST First published on: Oct 8, 2026 at 06:40 AM IST The Government appointed a high-level committee headed by Cabinet Secretary B G…
3 min readOct 8, 2026 06:00 AM IST First published on: Oct 8, 2026 at 06:00 AM IST On Wednesday, with the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of…
World Teachers’ Day is held annually on October 5, exactly a month after we celebrate our teachers and their work. UNESCO commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the Recommendation…
There are leaders remembered for their soaring political rhetoric, others for electoral victories, and some for the institutions they leave behind. Narendra Modi, in my experience, is best understood through…
President Donald Trump seems anxious about the upcoming US midterm elections – voting is on November 3. So much so that he confused Brazil with India in a recent social…
The shift in stance by the RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), accompanied by a rate hike in its October review, was hardly unexpected. Monetary policy is shaped principally by domestic…
In recent weeks, with the revelations about the Election Commission’s troubling conduct and the disenfranchisement of 13 crore voters by unfair means, a provocative debate has emerged. Some are questioning…
The United States, Iraq, and Iran all hailed the departure of American troops from Iraq on September 30 as a victory, albeit for very different reasons. Washington framed it as…
4 min readOct 7, 2026 01:40 PM IST First published on: Oct 7, 2026 at 01:36 PM IST For an astronomer, light is the easy part: Hold up a lens…