Newspaper editorials — Sunday 4 October, 2026

As Islam took root in Malabar and the community integrated elements of Arab culture into their own practices, unique art forms such as Oppana brightened the land

Cycling is a Dutch way of life, a graceful balance of health and wealth

Surviving a daily commute in India calls for a rare blend of supernatural reflexes, total fearlessness, and unwavering faith in divine intervention

Being a polyglot has its advantages

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…

Gandhi’s Indian identity was not a fortress. It was a window. He stood firmly somewhere, and because he knew where he stood, he could look outward

In the last few years, we’ve focused on talking to girls teaching them how to stay safe. But we’ve not been speaking enough to perpetrators of sexual violence

If you are up to it, you might try building up a list of the ways “up” is used. It will take up a lot of your time

The spectre of a simultaneous political fracture within Europe and heightened Russian hybrid warfare is what makes this moment truly perilous

The artificial intelligence (AI) stack is both complex and expensive. As Indian policymakers try to put India on the global AI map, it would be better for the country to focus on maximizing value where it can instead of spreading resourc…

European policymakers are unlikely to view this prediction betting service as just another trading platform, as it claims to be, and wisely so. If Polymarket manages to get a foot in the door, it could unleash chaos.

The country must recall debates in the Constituent Assembly that framed the Constitution and why it settled on universal adult franchise. The judiciary’s role in strengthening the election process is significant too. All this assumes cri…

Perceptions exist of larger forces behind last month’s Tata boardroom coup. Whether politics really had a role to play is not as important as the optics of what’s going on. However, control of the group still can’t easily shift.

Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor, left unfinished at his death in 1791 and later completed chiefly by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, combines terror, grief and tenderness in a work inseparable from the mythology surrounding its creation. Neville Marri…

भारतीय खिलाड़ियों द्वारा जीते कुल पदकों में भी बेटियों का पलडा ही भारी है। अगर जेन ज़ी के शब्दो में कहें तो 'एक कचौड़ी, दो सिंघाड़ा, अब खेल में मर्दों को पछाड़ा।'

अध्यात्म मनुष्य को इसी जीवन में आत्म-पुनर्जन्म देकर सांसारिक भ्रम और भय से मुक्त करता है। ज्ञान के निरंतर अभ्यास से अंतःकरण शुद्ध होता है और मनुष्य स्वार्थ छोड़कर 'वसुधैव कुटुंबकम' के भाव से विश्व कल्याण के लिए समर्पित हो जाता है।

जून में राहुल गांधी ने वैश्विक आर्थिक परिस्थितियों के बीच भारत के सामने आने वाली ‘आर्थिक सुनामी’ की चेतावनी दी थी। सितंबर के अंत में विदेश मंत्री एस. जयशंकर ने दुनिया के सामने बड़े खाद्य संकट की आशंका जताई।

किसी आत्महत्या को एक ही कारण से जोड़ना न वैज्ञानिक रूप से उचित है और न सामाजिक रूप से। डब्ल्यूएचओ के अनुसार इसके पीछे मानसिक स्वास्थ्य संबंधी समस्याएं, व्यक्तिगत संकट, रिश्तों में टूटन, आर्थिक कठिनाइयां और अन्य परिस्थितियां जुड़ी हो सकती…