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Business News > Mint Authors > Salil Tripathi

Salil Tripathi

ARTICLES BY SALIL TRIPATHI

Motels in the US are mostly run by Patels of Gujarat. (iStockphoto)

The rise and fall of Indians in the US

7 min read . 18 Jan 2025

The Alang shipbreaking yard in Gujarat. (AFP)

Veraval and Alang: The Gujarat towns where ships are scrapped

8 min read . 02 Jun 2024

A representational image (Photo: HT)

The India of Peter Brook’s Mahabharata has changed

4 min read . 14 Jul 2022

The judiciary should protect our rights and not just ensure order

4 min read . 29 Jun 2022

People protest against Nupur Sharma (recently suspended from BJP), over her alleged remarks on Prophet Muhammad, in Ranchi on Friday (Somnath Sen)

We face a bonfire of hypocrisies over the freedom of expression

4 min read . 15 Jun 2022

Studies on the genetic lineage of Indians could serve dubious ends

4 min read . 01 Jun 2022

A pro-abortion rally in Baltimore on May 14, 2022 (Photo: AP)

The case of abortion in America reveals the influence of ideology

4 min read . 18 May 2022

A bulldozer demolishes the structure during the anti-encroachment drive at Collectorate road, in Tikamgarh (Photo: ANI)

The wide ramifications of a budding bulldozer raj

4 min read . 05 May 2022

‘Chicken Run’. Photo: courtesy Parvathi Nayar

Mapping India's Korea connection

7 min read . 03 May 2022

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (Photo: Reuters)

Rishi Sunak’s bright prospects in British politics have dimmed

4 min read . 21 Apr 2022

The city that had once offered refuge to Chinese capital fleeing the Communist takeover of China in 1949 and become a beacon of economic and many political freedoms, is now more clearly Chinese than at any time in its modern-day history (Photo: Reuters)

The rapidly rising price of liberty in Beijing-repressed Hong Kong

4 min read . 06 Apr 2022

Fimmaker Rintu Thomas’s Writing With Fire

A film that’s worthy of an Oscar even if its subject has misgivings

4 min read . 23 Mar 2022

Any move that harms Russian civil society, or Russian intelligentsia opposed to the regime, is counter-productive (Photo: AP)

The confrontation’s with Putin, not Pushkin or Russian people

4 min read . 09 Mar 2022

National Guard servicemen stand guard outside the Ukrainian Parliament during it's sitting in Kyiv on February 23, 2022 (Photo: AFP)

Russia’s claims ignore the truth that Ukraine has its own identity

4 min read . 24 Feb 2022

Britain's PM Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 (Photo: AP)

Boris Johnson’s current crisis of leadership is of his own making

4 min read . 09 Feb 2022

Publisher Sylvia Beach with author James Joyce (Getty Images)

On 100 years of Ulysses by James Joyce

6 min read . 04 Feb 2022

Last week in the Punjab, had Modi proceeded to the rally he was meant to address, he would have noticed something that was not part of his party’s planned screenplay (PTI)

The brouhaha over a blockade of Modi’s motorcade in Punjab

4 min read . 12 Jan 2022

Commuters, not wearing facemasks, head to work amid the Covid-19 Omicron variant threat, in Noida, India, on Thursday, December 30, 2021. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times) (HT_PRINT)

The year that was

9 min read . 31 Dec 2021

A file photo of Haridwar

Disturbing intimations of a grim future that seems here already

4 min read . 29 Dec 2021

Fifty years ago this week, Indian armed forces marched into Dhaka in what was then known as East Pakistan

The liberation of Bangladesh and the arc of its history since then

4 min read . 15 Dec 2021