Opinion

Coined by Arnold van Gennep in 1909, ‘liminality’ describes a transitional phase, or a passage between identities. India, in 2025, embodies this concept geopolitically, economically and strategically. It is both…

In the complex world of asset distribution, the rights of nominees, particularly in life insurance policies, have been a subject of ongoing legal debate. Traditionally, nominees have been regarded as…

Born on April 6, 1909 into the Nattukottai Chettiar community with a father who was a successful banker, he could have remained just a product of his inheritance. But Alagappa…

The bond market spoke; Donald Trump blinked. The lettuce theory of Liz Truss holds true: No leader, not even one who has shrugged off assassination attempts and a fraud trial,…

I don’t know if the makers of Adolescence, the Netflix drama about a 13-year-old boy who is accused of killing a female classmate after being radicalized into a toxic performance…

With America’s sudden trade onslaught taking the world to the brink of commercial chaos, the economic outlook for India, like for other countries, has taken a turn for the worse.…