Sukumar Ranganathan is the Editor-in-Chief of Hindustan Times. He is also a comic-book freak and an amateur birder.
Articles by R Sukumar
Hindustan Times @100: an inside-out perspective
The business of newspapers and the technology powering newsrooms have both changed radically, but the principles of journalism must remain the same
‘Malnutrition is vastly ignored... would fix it if I had a magic wand’
In an interview with HT Editor R Sukumar, Bill Gates says once we hit the pandemic, some countries went backwards, but India continues to make progress
Published on Sep 17, 2024 01:42 PM IST
HT interview: Modi going to see you through this stormy period, says Jaishankar
India's External Affairs Minister Jaishankar highlights India's confident foreign policy stance under Modi's leadership.
Updated on May 17, 2024 08:44 AM IST
HT interview: We empower citizens, Opp wants to steal their wealth, says PM Modi
There is no scope for complacency in the BJP as it is here to fulfil the vision of Viksit Bharat by 2047, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Updated on May 12, 2024 11:40 AM IST
HT interview: Economy relevant to elections, says Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been on the campaign trail, across southern India, and also parts of the North-East.
Updated on Apr 20, 2024 10:04 AM IST
Electoral bonds will be back after consultations: Finance Minister Sitharaman
BJP plans to reintroduce electoral bonds if re-elected in 2024, aiming for transparency. Nirmala Sitharaman criticizes Opposition, advocates economic stability.
Updated on Apr 20, 2024 04:40 AM IST
Playing it forward: R Sukumar interviews jazz legend Herbie Hancock
He's unfazed by the potential of AI. Once an engineering student, he has a soft spot for technology. His focus now, he says, is to pass the baton he was handed.
Updated on Jan 19, 2024 10:49 PM IST
R Sukumar picks his favourite read of 2023
About humankind and the wild and how one interacts with and shapes the other, this tale of survival, that’s also an appreciation of life, is an all-time classic
‘We turned out to be right’: ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers, on betting big on India
The age of AI will be a time for much more collaboration between the US and India, its companies and its people, says the former CEO of Cisco.
Updated on Dec 06, 2023 09:43 PM IST
HT Interview: Our PM believes in democratising technology, says Vaishnaw
India’s new privacy law, will mean greater accountability for Big Tech, the minister said.
Updated on Aug 13, 2023 05:47 AM IST
Under Modi, a new caste has emerged in the country, that of beneficiaries: Shah
Union minister Amit Shah says a Uniform Civil Code has been on the BJP’s agenda since the day our party was formed
Updated on May 04, 2023 02:29 PM IST
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India’s big reform push will help Global South
India’s push for holistic, transformative reforms of multilateral development banks is key to transitions to low-carbon economies.
HT Interview: ‘My worry is …,’ Bill Gates on misinformation
To Prime Minister Modi’s credit, when we were doing the 2015 Paris Accord where people signed up for various commitments, part of the reason he went to it was because of a side meeting that he named “Mission Innovation”, Bill Gates says.
Updated on Mar 04, 2023 04:56 AM IST
R Sukumar picks his favourite reads of 2022
End-of-the-world scenarios, a nature book that explores the idea of Umwelten, and graphic novels that synthesise fable, myth and the artist’s own universe
HT interview: Data bill in line with global practices, says Vaishnaw
Union minister says carve-outs in India’s new privacy bill are consistent with Constitution provisions
Updated on Dec 02, 2022 12:34 PM IST
Deeksha Bhardwaj, Sunetra Choudhury and R Sukumar
By order of the President
The exercise to elect the Congress president shows the relationship the party shares with change — across two time frames.
Updated on Oct 01, 2022 02:28 AM IST
R Sukumar, New Delhi
Lessons India needs to learn from Covid-19
On the medical oxygen front, the nation is unlikely to witness shortage; on the district hospital front, there is a long way to go; and in terms of science- and evidence-based decision making, some progress has been made
Pulp-it | How do you rate a cricket team’s captain?
Sure, culture is important, as is strategy, but because sustained performance is not possible without either, the simplest way to rate a leader is outcomes.
Updated on Dec 17, 2021 11:31 AM IST
R Sukumar
Pulp-It | In 2022, what India must do to learn to live with Covid
Covid-19 will become endemic in India. It’s important to tailor our response to this phase around four interventions.
Pulp-It | After WFH, it is time for a BTW strategy
Apart from detailing the logistics of WFO, the Back To Work strategy should include reorientation sessions, communicating an updated employee health policy, and activities (Covid-safe ones, of course) that emphasise team work and fun
Pulp-it | Should you lose sleep over Omicron?
Is the new variant more transmissible or infective? Does it cause more severe disease? Is it resistant to existing Covid-19 vaccines?
How to solve the crypto conundrum?
The exact contours of the cryptocurrency law that India will introduce isn’t clear. It could completely ban private cryptocurrencies and trading in them; or it could just ban their use as a currency and allow their trade as an asset class .
Updated on Nov 25, 2021 05:31 AM IST
Pulp-it | Delhi’s air is always bad. Stubble burning makes it worse
Stubble burning is singularly responsible for pushing AQI into the severe category on most of the few days in which the air is really bad
Pulp-it | Why Delhi is choking
For eight days till Thursday, the Central Pollution Control Board’s daily bulletin reported an AQI level that is either severe or at the high end of the very poor category. Friday’s reading, too, was in the severe category
The prickly problem of greater-good debates
Forcing people to change their personal choices in the interests of a greater good could have far-reaching implications. But at some point of time, each of us will have to consciously make choices based on what’s good for the environment
Pulp-it | No one has figured out how to win T20s yet
The T20 format is yet to see a team with the right mix of skills, strategy, and captaincy. When one emerges (and it will take some doing), the form book will start to matter again in the format
A tale of IIT admissions, coaching institutes, and students as brand ambassadors
How many coaching classes does an IIT-JEE topper need? 42
Happy to see economic recovery: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman
The Finance minister said, “I’m happy to see recovery; at this stage we want to have very positive signs from all segments so that mutually they create this thing called sentiment. If sentiment becomes positive, it creates a multiplier effect.”
Updated on Sep 21, 2021 12:52 AM IST
Banks themselves will drive bad bank, says Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that she was confident the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL), effectively a bad bank, will work because “this entire mechanism is driven by the banks”
Published on Sep 20, 2021 11:52 PM IST
R Sukumar, New Delhi
‘Happy to see economic recovery’: FM Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the resolution formula is the one that will be given priority. Not liquidation. When you look at resolution – there is an implicit message being given that these are workable assets, and that with some doing they will be valuable.
