Express Opinion

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on August 18, 1986.

When the RBI absorbs hedging costs, the exposure moves onto the public balance sheet. When banks raise three-to-five-year money and lend against it, the risk resurfaces as an asset-liability mismatch

Bangladesh have a Test win on Australian soil at just the third time of asking — and yet, they have had to wait 26 years for it

The NJDG indicates that 24,68,339 criminal cases were instituted in a single month, which roughly translates to 2.96 crore criminal cases in a year. Against this, the 4.86 lakh cases assigned to LADCs represent approximately

What the silence reveals is the political use of the Palestinian issue by the Iranian ruling clergy for anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism

India is neither a story of uninterrupted progress nor one of unbroken oppression. For millions, freedom has been — and continues to be — made, negotiated and fought for in the ordinary spaces of everyday

This is the front page of The Indian Express published on August 17, 1986.

India must look beyond honey exports and recognise bees as an essential, unpaid agricultural workforce

Somewhere between that generation and ours, we changed the relationship. We stopped treating India as something we built, and started treating it as something that owes us.

Talking to him on any subject, whether history, politics or literature, was always enlightening, as he had a vast store of knowledge on a variety of topics, and was never boring

When some moves are easy to undo, and others are not, prudence says to move the reversible ones first and hold off on the irreversible ones until a thorough cost-benefit analysis is done

Children may forget an Independence Day speech, but they will remember being told that one could not be delivered. That moment offers an opportunity to teach them that freedom requires curiosity, dialogue and the courage

The PM is right when he says yuva shakti will fuel the journey to Viksit Bharat, but that calls for celebrating the power of thought and freedom from fear, so that questions are asked and

Women do not owe anyone the performance of devastation. They do not owe anyone the right reaction, the right memory, the right amount of anger, the right amount of fear.

The station witnessed thousands of Muslims saying goodbye forever to their homeland and their loved ones. From here, trains used to leave regularly for Lahore.

Why do governments spend time choosing highly symbolic titles for their treaties? The answer lies in how shared ideas and symbols shape our political world

May an Independence Day come when on the streets of our cities we no longer see little children selling Indian flags just to make enough for a celebratory hot meal.

The catastrophic flooding in Upper Assam is not just a seasonal misfortune but the outcome of vulnerabilities that have quietly built up over nearly two centuries in a monsoon landscape

Stripped to its essence, this BCI directive was a thinly veiled attempt to browbeat and threaten students at the cusp of their legal careers, all for expressing their sentiments internally in a respectful and peaceable

From his first major work, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, he demonstrated how ordinary people could be simultaneously hierarchical and democratic, radical and conservative, communal and nationalist

As much as I have been harassed, I have also been blessed enough to witness more and more people speaking up for what is right. People tell me that by raising my voice, I have

The Haldwani purification rite, after Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge had left the stage, has a personal resonance

We often imagine that today’s generation has limitless opportunities. Yet many young people are trapped inside dreams they never chose for themselves

Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, the paralysis of export trade, with most shipowners suspending port calls and hesitant to make voyages amid skyrocketing war-risk insurance premiums, can potentially spill over into a global food supply crisis

I pay homage to Tiruppur Kumaran, known as Kodi Kaatha Kumaran (Kumaran, the protector of the flag). He came to be known by this title after sacrificing his life in Tiruppur (my hometown) , refusing