Newspaper editorials — Sunday 30 August, 2026

Should civilisation be evaluated on the basis of the betterment of thought process and tolerance?

Earning the trust of a rooster and the unfolding of a tragedy

Food is one facet of culture and dish names are sometimes riddles

The problem begins when convenience replaces human interaction, and instant consumption replaces thoughtful reflection

Census authorities should explain the rationale of new entries in the questionnaire India’s first census under the Raj asked 17 questions. The ongoing 16th Census will ask 40. That’s not a bad thing because data...

Nodal testing agency is fast losing legitimacy. UGC-NET’s exam issues were sheer incompetence NTA is becoming a burlesque act. The latest fiasco – three papers of UGC-NET, the qualifying test to teach in colleges, and...

India sits on a conservatively estimated 35,000 tonnes of gold, valued at well over 115% of GDP. We are the only country in the world with this distinction, yet we behave like Kasturi Mrig –...

Assam’s floods are often described as inevitable. From a civil engineer’s perspective, that is an incomplete diagnosis. Brahmaputra and its tributaries will overflow during extreme monsoon events, but flooding becomes a disaster when int…

We need to curb the crime, but we also need to be wary of the political dimension that curbing it might acquire

The Mecca pact has strengthened Pakistan’s hand, deepening and expanding its influence in West Asia.

Schools have always been a class-marker in India. Earlier, it was the famous boarding schools that parents boasted about. Now, they need a new class marker.

Judgement on women’s bodies is hardly new and goes beyond unsolicited beauty advice. A woman’s appearance seems to be perpetually available for public scrutiny.

Canada has exited trade negotiations with US and launched dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs, marking a sharp escalation in middle-power resistance against Washington. 

Prafulla Chandra Ray believed scientific freedom meant more than producing knowledge. He wanted Indians to manufacture what science made possible—and built Bengal Chemical to prove they could.

Now that we have AI to work with, why do we need to keep it a secret?

Amid a geopolitical upheaval, America seems ever more keen to use its financial heft, never mind that the dollar derives its power partly from the Fed’s credibility and independence. But arbitrary decisions—on swap lines, say—show how wr…

Chutney has travelled far beyond Indian kitchens, evolving into music in the Caribbean, finding a place on British supermarket shelves and inspiring new packaged-food categories in India. From chutney soca and Salman Rushdie’s “chutnific…

किताबें तैयार हैं, कैमरा भी तैयार है: ओटीटी से बदल रहा परिदृश्य, हिंदी लेखकों और नई कहानियों के लिए शुभ संकेत

जानना जरूरी है: विष्णु ने कैसे किया कालनेमि का अंत, चक्र से क्यों काटने पड़े सौ भयंकर मस्तक?

जरूरत से ज्यादा तारीफ!: रिश्ते की शुरुआत में ‘गट फीलिंग’ पर भरोसा करें, बार-बार वफादारी के दबाव पर सावधान रहें

इतिहास का पैटर्न: आर्थिक संकट में लोकतांत्रिक व तानाशाह देशों का रवैया क्या, तीसरा विश्वयुद्ध शुरू हो चुका है?