India Politics

Modi's third term opened with consolidation, not revolution: 7% growth, PLI expansion, strong FDI — and the same unresolved jobs crisis.

Chandrayaan-3 landed at the lunar south pole — a first for any nation — on a $75 million budget. How ISRO built world-class space capability on a fraction

Five years after Galwan killed 20 Indian soldiers, the LAC is stable but unresolved — buffer zones, not peace. Normalisation means management, not settlement.

Criticism of Indian democracy is legitimate — and selective: Western indices, Xinjiang silence, Bangladesh. Scrutiny follows alignment, not principle.

300 million practice yoga, turmeric lattes sell in Brooklyn, RRR won an Oscar — and nobody in Delhi planned any of it. India's unplanned soft power wave.

The IITs admit 17,000 students a year while state universities educate 35 million. India's education story isn't about the top — it's about everyone else,

Oil at $110, China's demographic collapse, the India-US AI talent corridor, an unplanned soft power moment, and why the rupee at 87 is not the real problem.

China's population fell for a fourth straight year in 2025, births hit a record low, youth unemployment sits near 17%, and the property sector is unwinding.

A reader's proposal for 'no party democracy' in India — screened, qualified representatives instead of party horse-trading — as an answer to corruption and

In the 2015 Delhi elections, a ten-student IIT-Bombay team built a sentiment-analysis tool that helped AAP read voter mood on social media — and win 67 of

In December 2014, AAP's Yogendra Yadav urged PM Narendra Modi to speak out against 'ghar wapsi' reconversion campaigns as the Rajya Sabha stalled for a

In November 2014, Jashodaben filed an RTI with Mehsana police asking what security and facilities she was entitled to as the Prime Minister’s wife.

In 2014, a 22-member team of Vedic Brahmins from Karnataka performed yagnas in Oman for the health of Sultan Qaboos — one of the most unusual interfaith

On October 3, 2014, Modi launched Mann Ki Baat, the monthly radio address that became a fixture of his premiership. A TI essay, from the archives.

A January 2014 guest op-ed on Arvind Kejriwal and AAP's 49-day Delhi government — the dharna, the intention-method-effect argument, and what followed.

In December 2013, India's Supreme Court upheld Section 377, recriminalizing gay sex. Five years later, the court reversed itself — the 2018 Navtej Singh

In November 2013, Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting a young colleague. The scandal — and the case's long road — unfolded over

In November 2013, a woman was brutally attacked inside a Bangalore ATM at 7:30 AM — caught on CCTV. The footage sparked a national debate on safety.

In August 2013, a teenage girl accused godman Asaram Bapu of sexual assault. A look at the case as it broke — and the convictions that followed.