Politics

US gas prices surged 20% to $3.55 a gallon ten days into the US-Israel operation against Iran, as Hormuz disruption pushed crude past $100.

Groundwater falling a meter a year, 30-40% of treated water leaking from pipes. India's urban water crisis is already here — not a future warning.

Delhi's air crosses AQI 400, Mumbai's 10-km commute takes two hours, Bangalore's groundwater is falling. Tier-1 cities are victims of their own success.

The 2023 Hindenburg report halved Adani's market cap in weeks. It exposed how family-controlled conglomerates clash with investor demands for transparency.

Twenty years of the OCI card: live, work, and invest in India — but never vote. Why India grants its diaspora nearly everything except political voice.

India's corporate hospitals rival the world's best while rural primary care collapses. Why the paradox persists — and what would actually fix it.

Section 377's 2018 fall decriminalized homosexuality — but the 2023 marriage-equality verdict shows how thin legal victories are without social acceptance.

India produces record harvests and exports while millions of farmers stay in debt and distress. The contradiction at the heart of Indian agriculture.

India's exam machine sorts brilliantly, thinks poorly: millions of engineers following algorithms, few who question them. Why the incentives make reform hard.

Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy — four million Indian Americans punch far above their numbers in US politics, holding structural power nationally.

Trump 2.0 means tariffs, visa risk, and transactional diplomacy for India. The opportunity: China+1 supply chains. The risk: IT services and H-1B access

From Non-Aligned solidarity with Palestine to joint military exercises with Israel: how India recalibrated its foreign policy — and domestic and moral costs.

The 7% per-country cap gives India ~10,000 green cards yearly. Over a million Indians wait in decades-long limbo — and America is losing them.

After the marches fade, ordinary cases remain. Policing is necessary but insufficient — most threats come from known people. The case for community-led safety.

Every April 14, India garlands Ambedkar's portrait, ignoring his argument: caste cannot be reformed, only abolished. Words enshrined; work unfinished.

By 2050, one in five Indians will be over 60. Pensions are fragmented, geriatric care an afterthought. The dividend is maturing — and India isn't ready.

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

Saudi Arabia posted job ads for eight new executioners in 2015 as beheadings surged — 85 executions by mid-May, nearly matching the whole of 2014.

'Ponytail-gate': a sexual-harassment complaint was laid against NZ Prime Minister John Key after waitress Amanda Bailey described his repeated hair-pulling.