Kiran D. Tare

Nalini Joshi’s coronation as New South Wales’s Scientist of the Year signals that in the quantum age, mathematics may be civilization's most strategic science. The 2025 Premier’s Prizes for Science, held beneath the chandeliers of Government House in Sydney, offered an implicit rebuke to the age of scientific celebrity. New South Wales’s top honour did not go to a physicist chasing particles, a chemist inventing materials or a doctor fighting disease, but to a mathematician. Nalini Joshi, the...

By denying bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, the Supreme Court has exposed the selective conscience of the so-called liberal ecosystem and the arrogance of foreign busybodies. Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam The Supreme Court’s refusal to grant bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam sends a clear signal about where politics ends and law begins. After examining the prosecution material in the 2020 Delhi riots “larger conspiracy” case, the Court concluded that both men failed to cross the...

Tarique Rahman’s return is less a democratic revival than a portent of harder politics for Bangladesh and for India. Bangladesh has a habit of mistaking movement for progress. When Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), returned after 17 years abroad to much fanfare, his supporters hailed it as the homecoming of democracy. Perceptive observers in India and elsewhere, however, saw the re-entry of a man whose long absence had burnished his myth more than...