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The paradoxes in Jamaat’s political posturing are more prominent than ever as it constantly finds its old baggage unboxed while attempting political...
Given its location at one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints, the project carries strategic significance that extends well beyond the...
The next bargain, if one is to be reached, will reflect the realities of the twenty-first century rather than the optimism of the mid-twentieth
The BNP government needs to practise what it has been preaching and stop surrendering to the Islamist forces that pose an existential threat to...
The doctrinal scaffolding India had assembled over the preceding decade was now load-bearing
Pakistan moved from raising legitimate technical objections to running a sustained legal warfare campaign against every Indian project on the western...
Successive Indian governments, of widely varying ideological complexions, treated the treaty as a matter of national honour
Nehru would tell Parliament after signing that India had purchased a settlement. The phrase was carefully chosen
How an intricate canal network became an ongoing geopolitical chessboard
A cause tethered to one person rises and falls with that person. A cause embedded in institutions endures.
With local elections likely to happen in September-October, anticipation is on the rise of Awami League’s resurgence
What is unfolding in PoK is not an isolated incident, but rather the latest manifestation of a structural problem that has existed since the territory...
Strip away all the talk of values and shared democracy, and what is left is plain old realpolitik—and here the EU's conduct becomes very difficult...
The persistence of attacks under the newly elected BNP government suggests that communal violence is increasingly rooted in local impunity networks
The Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), the group spearheading the movement, has announced a territory-wide shut down on June 9.
After the 2014 mandate, the refusal took the form of doubt about Electronic Voting Machines. After the 2019 mandate, it became outright denial that...
India has long understood, at least in theory, that its Buddhist heritage gives it a unique standing in Asia
The episode highlights how vulnerable Pakistan’s political order remains to unelected actors capable of translating external preferences into...
The Saaf Pani and Toshakhana cases are not simply legal stories but windows into Pakistan’s evolving political order where justice is not blind, but...
A large section of tribal society that continues to follow its original cultural traditions is still struggling for its rights
As the region moves forward, Operation Sindoor stands as a case study in the evolving nature of conflict in the subcontinent
From polarisation to consolidation of Hindus behind Modi, this marks a new phase in Indian politics
Pakistan under Asim Munir seeks to mediate between the United States and Iran to regain relevance, but faces high geopolitical, economic, and domestic...
The core difference between the BJP and the other mainstream parties, when it comes to checking exodus, is ‘ideology’
Over time, a state that names, maps, and bureaucratically references a territory generates a documentary record of effective control, even if its...
The way the Congress is celebrating the failure of this bill may be viewed in the historical context of its relationship with Constitutional as well...
Dr BR Ambedkar approached these issues less as a politician and more as a rigorous thinker committed to the truth, however inconvenient
The tragedy is not only in the suffering itself but in how normalised it has become
Sadhvi Ritambhara, known more as a firebrand leader and one of the leading lights of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, has created a unique Bharatiya...
To address Hinduphobia, it is important that global academic, media, and policy discourses approach Hindus and their faith with fairness, intellectual...
While 'Operation Gazab Lil Haq' may project strength, its very existence underscores a failure of foresight, policy and governance
The PM’s visit reinforces India’s strategic autonomy, technological and defence preparedness, commitment to balanced West Asia engagement and...
By strengthening ties with Israel while backing a two-state solution for Palestine, India shows an ability to balance strategic partnerships with...
The underlying politics here is less about documentary facts and more about image, legitimacy and enduring geopolitical tensions
This deal is not about who won. It is about halting strategic drift, buying time in a fractured global order, restoring momentum.
Tehran’s safest bet should be to not rely on a neighbour whose ‘double game’ could prove as destabilising as any external adversary
PM Modi’s letter to Rajya Sabha member C Sadanandan Master goes beyond personal sympathy to highlight enduring reality of political violence,...
Their presence signals a transformation of the Baloch insurgency from a predominantly male guerrilla movement into a broader societal revolt
The Modi government's priorities are clear with consistency in its approach by focusing on aspirational sections of society who live in smaller...
If Pakistan keeps closing borders, expelling refugees, and masking strategic failures with security rhetoric, it risks entrenching lasting hostility...
There is an urgent need to document growing ‘Hinduphobia’ on digital media platforms, especially social media
By placing law above individuals, the Constitution reiterates the age-old Hindu Dharmic notion that authority is legitimate only when it is righteous
Gen Asim Munir may currently hold all the levers of power, but history offers a sobering lesson: Authority sustained through repression rarely...
The Somnath Swabhiman Parv, commemorating 1,000 years since Mahmud of Ghazni’s 1026 invasion and destruction of the Somnath temple, was more than a...
If the West wishes to reclaim credibility in its democracy agenda, it must confront this imbalance honestly.
RSS takes up issues that society is concerned about. It works on these issues from a contemporary perspective
History will likely judge 2025 as the year Pakistan’s democratic experiment was decisively rolled back—not by force alone, but by law.
History suggests that trusting Pakistan’s security promises comes at a high price, one that the region can ill afford to pay again.
When Mohan Bhagwat or his predecessors speak of Bharat as a Hindu Rashtra, they aren't advocating a theocratic state, but invoking deeper...
The deeper implication of Amit Shah’s statement is its rejection of a dynastic culture that reeks of inherited political entitlement