Is the Indian middle class dream over? Saurabh Mukherjea on the 3 forces crushing your futureIndia's middle class is in deep trouble. Education no longer guarantees prosperity. Jobs are disappearing, especially in IT. Wages are not ...
21 Apr, 2026, 09.52 AM IST
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban ejected after 16 years in a European electoral earthquakeHungarian voters ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orban, ending his 16-year authoritarian rule in a stunning election result. Pro-...
14 Apr, 2026, 11.55 AM IST
Who will survive AI job cuts? Palantir CEO Alex Carp points to autistic, neurodivergent talentSkills to survive AI-driven job market: AI is changing jobs. Palantir CEO Alex Karp believes people with vocational skills or those who are...
26 Mar, 2026, 01.25 AM IST
President Xi asks China's submarine force to become elite force to fulfil missionsAfter he took over power in 2012, Xi, who heads the Central Military Commission, (CMC) - the high command of the PLA - has laid emphasis on...
11 May, 2023, 08.29 PM IST
View: India needs a critical mass of liberalism to resist illiberal bullying of any shadeLiberalism, after years of coming under attack from its discontents, finds itself now also taking up the illiberal’s cudgel. Social media a...
20 Jul, 2020, 10.08 PM IST
New elite vs liberals: The rift widens after Modi's winThe TV anchor has won over the opinion columnist, the CA over the economist, the chowkidar over the watchdog journalist.
24 May, 2019, 01.19 PM IST
Women who want to worship Ayyappan face the wrath of the elite Liberals Against SabarimalaMyths have often been a device of dominance in Hinduism, which is why they are unreliable guides to govern contemporary life.
20 Jan, 2019, 09.41 AM IST
What's really behind Asia's upsurge of outrage?It's easy, too, to finger "radical Islam," and its international sponsors, such as Saudi Arabia, for the exponential rise in intolerance.
08 Dec, 2017, 01.36 PM IST
Why India needs its "liberal elite" to step out into the great wide openLiberal elite and the inevitable “left liberal” — that favourite oxymoron of the right wing— are sobriquets hurled to describe anyone not c...
09 Jul, 2017, 12.28 AM IST
A huge section of the educated elite, chooses to be blatantly illiberalFor decades, the nice and the good have been talking to each other, chitchat in every forum going, ignoring what stews beneath — envy, ange...
30 Dec, 2016, 12.47 AM IST
India’s real elites: If the Constitution is his only holy book, liberals will stand with Narendra ModiIndia’s liberals are not concerned with Modi’s choice of clothing or Mayawati’s handbag, and in fact applaud the PM’s courage at speaking i...
21 Jun, 2016, 10.01 AM IST
Arrogant liberals are doing a big disservice to liberalismOver the past two years an unhappy divide has grown, something we did not expect when the nation elected Prime Minister Modi on the promise...
12 Jun, 2016, 01.03 PM IST
Elite should be more liberal in giving up LPG subsidy: Dharmendra PradhanWe did a sample study and found out that only three per cent of people who gave up their subsidy, were earning more than Rs 10 lakh, the oi...
14 Mar, 2016, 01.24 PM IST
Why Chetan Bhagat is wrong about Indian liberalsChetan Bhagat has taken a huge swipe at Indian liberals arguing that they usually have “no clue” and “no solutions” about what India should...
06 Nov, 2015, 11.59 AM IST
Why China’s riches won’t bring it freedomThe specific socioeconomic conditions that enabled both liberalism and democracy were particular to Western Europe and America.
21 May, 2013, 05.10 AM IST
- The Pakistan abyss
The assassination of PPP leader and Punjab Governor Salman Taseer is another marker of Pakistan's descent into a social and political black...
06 Jan, 2011, 03.37 AM IST
- Bomb hurled at marketplace in Meghalaya, 7 injured
At least seven persons were injured when some unidentified persons hurled a bomb in the busy main market in Tura in Meghalaya this evening,...
09 Oct, 2010, 10.12 PM IST