Acute angle

'Tariff' is the word that roiled the world in 2025, which US President Donald Trump dubbed 'the most beautiful word'. (AP)

And the word of the year for 2025 is…

4 min read . 07 Jan 2026

Tesla's chief Elon Musk recently made radical predictions about the future of work. (REUTERS)

How seriously can we take Musk’s vision of a leisure society created by AI?

4 min read . 11 Dec 2025

What we have witnessed for the last nine months is a test of wills between two fundamentally different views of market power. (istockphoto)

A King Kong vs Godzilla fight in the world of trade—Guess who won?

4 min read . 12 Nov 2025

Dissonance between politics and markets is not new, nor unique to the US. (Bloomberg)

America’s H-1B policy: A clash between ideology and market reality

4 min read . 15 Oct 2025

At IIT Kharagpur, students were mandated to comply with “vegetarian and non-vegetarian seating arrangements.” (istockphoto)

From campus canteens to city streets: Is modern India reinforcing caste divides?

4 min read . 17 Sept 2025

The intent of the ‘One Nation, One Election’ is to have the Lok Sabha election for central government formation coincide with all Vidhan Sabha elections. (HT)

One Nation, One Election: Does it reflect an Indian way of thinking?

5 min read . 17 Aug 2025

Mamdani's win has exposed the deep corruption at the party's top levels. (Getty Images via AFP)

What the rise of Mamdani in New York means for America’s Democratic Party

5 min read . 22 Jul 2025

Caste demography represents a massive and critical gap in India’s self-knowledge. (AP)

Sanjoy Chakravorty: A caste census is a Pandora’s Box that we must open anyway

5 min read . 12 Jun 2025