Modern times

In any relationship, saying that you are lucky to have it is high praise. And so too when people feel that way about their nation, (AP)

Manu Joseph: Why we’re lucky to be Indians in such a terrible world

5 min read . 29 Dec 2024

Capitalism, ironically, does not serve its true masters well. There are simply no real products for the very wealthy that only they can afford and enjoy.

Manu Joseph: Escaping India within India is an exorbitant exercise

5 min read . 22 Dec 2024

The novel is framed as 'magic realism', which is a nonsensical term that takes itself too seriously, as though it has more gravitas than fantasy. (Getty Images)

Manu Joseph: Gabriel García Márquez in the time of Netflix

5 min read . 15 Dec 2024

It is an idea constructed by sophisticated American intellectual systems (REUTERS)

Manu Joseph: Trump’s victory has exposed the worst argument of the West

5 min read . 08 Dec 2024

The real bias against women is in how the world perceives the ordinariness of ordinary women as opposed to the ordinariness of ordinary men. (AP)

Manu Joseph: A right that women don’t have is the right to mediocrity

5 min read . 01 Dec 2024

At times, it feels like the hotel room competes with your sleep, finding subtle ways to disrupt it.

Manu Joseph: Why the 5-star hotel experience needs urgent reforms

5 min read . 24 Nov 2024

Air quality is not a major political issue yet; but the reason why it is so bad in the national capital region is influenced by politics.

Manu Joseph: Why national pride has not cleaned up Delhi’s air

5 min read . 17 Nov 2024

Majority of people like unhealthy behaviour, even though they fear death and wish to be healthy. (AP)

Manu Joseph: How unhealthy behaviour could deliver success

5 min read . 15 Sep 2024

India is obsessed with the image of its airports. Otherwise, across a vast landscape, India is an urban catastrophe. (PTI)

Manu Joseph: Why Indian cities may be doomed to remain unliveable

5 min read . 08 Sep 2024

All around me, I see elderly folks who have meekly receded into retirement and they struggle to fill their days. (AFP)

The elderly men who run the world give us hope

4 min read . 15 Apr 2024

Palestinians have gained less from Muslim sympathy than from the crumbs falling off Israel’s capitalism. (REUTERS)

Palestinians will do better without long-distance lovers

4 min read . 16 Oct 2023

Gandhi was in pursuit of the perfect diet; he discovered the power of uncooked vegetables long before salads grew famous, he was an early prophet of soya beans; he drank goat milk, went to places with a goat.

In memory of Gandhi’s encounters with bio-hacking

4 min read . 01 Oct 2023

The success of Modi’s BJP in part emerges from the fact that he was not the second-best candidate at the time of his ascent.

What could possibly ruin the BJP’s dominance one day

4 min read . 25 Sep 2023

But after Freud grew popular and gave academic sophistication to the religious idea that dreams are allegories, the subconscious assumed the reputation of being our true self, with our public persona a facade.

Why psychoanalysis should be kept outside one’s home

4 min read . 18 Sep 2023

Telgi could not have run the operation without help from politicians and the police.

Telgi’s fate may have been different if he’d bought votes

4 min read . 10 Sep 2023

For most of its run, Barbie is a comedy that roasts women, Mattel and wokes who have infected the world with the inane language of political correctness.

‘Barbie’ highlights for men who don’t want to watch it

5 min read . 28 Aug 2023

There is one mainstream criticism of India’s space mission—how can a nation where children die of curable diseases and every big city is unliveable waste resources on space missions? (ANI)

How to survive if you don’t feel proud of our Moon feat

4 min read . 28 Aug 2023

The Supreme Court has elevated privacy by extrapolating some of the original fundamental rights (and clubbing together ideas of home, ownership and digital identity).

Why the right to privacy holds negligible mass appeal

4 min read . 21 Aug 2023

According to several reporters, a procession of Hindus led by a Hindu outfit was attacked by local Muslims. (HT_PRINT)

The character of Gurgaon is drawn from its rural roots

4 min read . 07 Aug 2023

As most of nature and its animals are in poor regions of the world, the new currency hopes to solve the poverty of many humans, too. (REUTERS)

Why a digital currency for animals could find takers

4 min read . 17 Jul 2023