Special Reports
K.S. Nagarajan As a retired ONGC scientist and 1971 war veteran, I have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for urgent intervention to strengthen accountability among public servants and provide institutional support to innovators whose ideas, I believe, are being lost due to bureaucratic delays. In this open letter to the Prime Minister, I argue…
Hardly anyone outside India’s deep-tech ecosystem may have heard of NoPo Nanotechnologies. Yet, in a modest facility in Bengaluru’s Electronic City, a company born from an improbable dream is attempting to solve one of the most consequential problems in advanced manufacturing — producing carbon nanotubes at industrial scale. And it all began with Mars. Gadhadar…
For decades, the India-China dispute has been described primarily as a territorial and strategic contest. But a new dimension is becoming impossible to ignore: water. As Beijing intensifies its activities on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra, the river is emerging as an increasingly important component of the geopolitical contest between New Delhi and Beijing….
Special Correspondent Five years after a scathing judgment, the real question is no longer what happened in 2021. It is what the Hyderabad Cricket Association will do about it now. Five years is a long time in the life of any institution. It is certainly long enough for a judicial order to be implemented, examined…
Dharam Guruva Reddy Although I would have preferred to remain silent, my continued silence could perhaps be mistaken for TCA’s weakness. I therefore feel compelled to respond to the criticism being directed at the Telangana Cricket Association (TCA). I have the highest personal regard for the author, whom I know as a former cricketer who…
There is no question that Yashasvi Jaiswal is one of the most exciting young batting talents in Indian cricket. Which is precisely why his behaviour after being dismissed in the second Test against Sri Lanka in Colombo should be a matter of concern—not something to be dismissed as “passion” or “aggression”. Jaiswal had battled his…
Can you guess what a 2,008x multiplier represents? It is not a cryptocurrency return. It is not the kind of eye-popping multiple promised by a high-risk venture fund. It is something far more consequential: the expansion of BharatNet’s optical-fibre footprint across rural India over the past decade. And unlike a financial multiplier, this one can…
KS Nagarajan There are stories of patriotism that are told on battlefields. There are others that are lived quietly, over decades, in the face of institutional indifference. The story of a 1971 war veteran, hands-on electrical and mechanical engineer and whistle-blower belongs to the latter category. After serving the nation in uniform and later working…
Ramu Chelimella Have you ever wondered why some highly capable people work incredibly hard, yet seem to achieve far less than their true potential? Perhaps the problem is not always the effort we put in… Perhaps it is the energy we unknowingly allow to escape. Imagine a beautiful pot being filled with water. We keep…
As someone associated with academics, I find it both surprising and disturbing that political parties opposed to the Narendra Modi government can make sweeping claims about the state of school education without acknowledging the hard data. The allegation that the Modi government has presided over the “closure” of schools, often repeated by sections of the…
