TK Arun

Journalist, TOI

Stories by the author

• Enough with mythologies: India needs new state-sponsored AI entities to create essential strategic capability

  
  29 Apr 2026 11:20 PM IST
• Transgressionary state: Transgender Amendment Act is a step back on freedom, democracy and growth

  
  31 Mar 2026 11:17 PM IST
• Unions should form cooperatives that own and run units in the informal sector

  
  03 Mar 2026 11:53 PM IST
• The biggest challenge of AI is freeing and nourishing natural intelligence

  
  18 Feb 2026 11:47 PM IST
• India, not China, should take the lead in championing a rules-based global order

  
  06 Jan 2026 11:16 PM IST
• India not only needs to craft a power storage policy, but also has to make its scale of RE durable

  
  23 Dec 2025 11:08 PM IST
• Build new cities: Ensure state-level detailed planning and zoning, realistic project reports and costing

  
  09 Dec 2025 10:54 PM IST
• Work within parameters of globalised growth, instead of ranting and raving against it

  
  25 Nov 2025 11:44 PM IST
• From climate and tech, to alienation and singlehood, some coming macro trends

  
  11 Nov 2025 11:53 PM IST
• Instead of fixing arbitrary targets, India Inc must invest in energy transition R&D

  
  30 Sep 2025 11:10 PM IST
• India winning 10 Nobel Prizes every decade would be a true marker of development and freedom

  
  16 Sep 2025 11:36 PM IST
• Make GST payments only by e-rupee, tokenisation can achieve total transparency

  
  02 Sep 2025 11:02 PM IST
• Eight steps for exporters, especially MSMEs, to take to cope against Trump tariffs

  
  19 Aug 2025 11:11 PM IST
• Op Salvage, or US Plus One: Why India must take the lead now to rescue globalisation

  
  05 Aug 2025 11:20 PM IST
• Comrade's glory and folly: VS Achuthanandan’s century-long life mapped the state’s social revolution

  
  22 Jul 2025 11:32 PM IST
• Of cats and caught tongues: India should find self-interest, if not moral courage, to speak out against aggression

  
  25 Jun 2025 12:07 AM IST
• Kerala’s share in central funds sparks debate ahead of 16th Finance Commission

  
  10 Jun 2025 10:44 PM IST
• We can be VAXit Bharat: Public sector alone can’t make India biotech-ready; firms, startups must jump in

  
  27 May 2025 11:38 PM IST
• Gold: Recent world history has been fraught with enough risk to make it a very shiny hedge

  
  02 Apr 2025 11:17 PM IST
• Budget 2025: What if the exercise was about building a knowledge economy, not a skilling shop?

  
  04 Feb 2025 10:45 PM IST
• Is the CPF commissioner guilty of contempt and mental torture for delaying pensions?

  
  11 Dec 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Attempts to change the people are as much part of history as embrace of the status quo

  
  12 Nov 2024 11:12 PM IST
• Donald Trump is the perfect tribal chief for ‘palaeoliths’ in MAGA tees’n’baseball caps

  
  29 Oct 2024 11:07 PM IST
• It’s not geography but institutional heft that makes countries rich or poor

  
  15 Oct 2024 10:45 PM IST
• The untold story of V O Chidambaram Pillai and the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company

  
  03 Sep 2024 10:58 PM IST
• India's shift: From Screwdriver Nation to Product Nation with design innovation

  
  21 Aug 2024 10:28 PM IST
• India’s route to success, economic included, lies in removing a cultural deficit legacy

  
  06 Aug 2024 11:24 PM IST
• View: Overturn cultural practices and dogmas to spur our companies to spend on R&D

  
  6 mins read28 May 2024
• 'Vive La AIvolution!' in the air

  
  6 mins read1 May 2024
• View: Federal finance must globalise, with states allowed a bigger share of investments

  
  6 mins read5 Mar 2024
• India has to free the bulk of its population from dependence on agriculture soon

  
  6 mins read20 Feb 2024
• Moti Mahal and Daryaganj's tussle over Butter Chicken and Dal Makhani throws up lessons, and aroma

  
  6 mins read23 Jan 2024
• New criminal laws: The shift in balance of power towards the police is troubling

  
  26 Dec 2023 11:15 PM IST
• Every city deserves a university

  
  6 mins read28 Nov 2023
• View: Philanthropy is welcome, but impact investing would benefit society much more

  
  6 mins read14 Nov 2023
• View: Electoral bonds, a veil over a veil

  
  6 mins read31 Oct 2023
• India must invest in carbon capture and use technologies and gaming

  
  6 mins read17 Oct 2023
• MSMEs, toughen up

  
  6 mins read15 Aug 2023
• View: Social media accentuates the flaws in our conception of modernity to distort reality

  
  6 mins read1 Aug 2023
• Why India needs an army of small infrastructure operators, not just a few big ones

  
  6 mins read20 Jun 2023
• Tackling plastic pollution and climate change through innovation and injection of sufficient funds

  
  6 mins read6 Jun 2023
• View: China will exit zero-Covid, and energy-starved Europe will end the Russia-Ukraine war

  
  6 mins read6 Dec 2022
• How work of Nobel economics winners is relevant for our times

  
  6 mins read11 Oct 2022