Opinion
N. Raghuraman's column: Stay immersed in art, it will slow down your aging
Do you remember the days of Grandpa and Grandpa? Where did they go every evening — to a temple, to a school or to a community cultural meeting? Our grandmothers often used to say in the kitchen, 'I don't know what is there in those places where you don't stay home even for 15 minutes after returning from a day's work. I don't know about others, but most of the elders of that era in our chawl were definitely engaged in some cultural activity. Later, my father became like that. They used to hold meetings on Monday at the South Indian Association, which runs the 'Saraswati Vidyalaya' in Nagpur.
Richa Roy and Arundhati Katju's column: How justified is it to exempt foreign data centers to get ahead in AI?
India is moving towards becoming an AI infrastructure hub. One of the ways this is to make it easier for foreign companies to set up data centers in India. Data centers are computer systems facilities that are used to store data and support everything from cloud storage to AI. In this year's budget, foreign companies have been given a 21-year tax exemption for setting up data centers in India. In addition to this tax exemption of the Centre, the state governments have also given various incentives to foreign data centers. But in the US, proposals for large investments in data centers of these
Manoj Joshi's column: Trump won't get any 'big beautiful deal' from China
Trump and Xi Jinping will meet soon at the Beijing Summit. This will be Trump's first visit to China in his second term. Earlier, in October 2025, the two leaders met in Busan, South Korea. In his first term, Trump ended America's decades-old association with China. After a year-long tariff war between the two countries, Trump's visit is probably aimed at restoring relations between the two countries. America's longstanding relationship with China was based on the illusion that economic engagement with Western countries would make China more open and democratic. But the new relationship is a p
India’s antiquated law on contempt of court restricts personal liberty and must be overhauled
After having raised the issue of whether the clubby and secretive collegiums system actually preserves the independence of the judiciary former Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju, has now trained his guns on India’s antiquated contempt of court law. He has made the valid point, in this newspaper, that judicial supremacy cannot be based on the law of kings in a democracy.
India’s best hope is that the Budget due February 2015 chooses growth and jobs
The presidential address to Parliament on June 9, 2014 had focussed nearly exclusively on projects and schemes, eschewing policy. Therefore, many had eagerly awaited the budget speech for a policy vision of the new government. Unfortunately, it too left observers guessing on whether the government would tackle tough reforms or rely principally on better implementation.
If cops guard veggies now, crooks could well come up with new crimes
Perhaps outnumbering its regular guardians of the law India has a self-appointed ‘moral police’ — who dictate what people may or may not do — as well as a ‘book police’ who regulate what people can read or write. Now, if Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has his way, the capital might have a ‘veggie police’ as well.
