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Japan’s election has delivered something rarer than a market rally: a sense of political finality. Sanae Takaichi’s sweeping mandate does not just...
The slogans on Dhaka’s walls are not just the aftershocks of a student uprising; they are signposts of a deeper political realignment. A generation...
War is usually argued over with maps and percentages: how much land, how many troops, how long a line can hold. But sometimes its true meaning is...
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The uproar over a former army chief’s unpublished memoir is less about one book and more about how a democracy negotiates the uneasy space between...
The quiet lanes of Umri village in Uttar Pradesh have become the setting for a familiar Indian tragedy: two young people, Kajal and Mohammad Arman,...
In an era when Indian politics increasingly feels scripted and predictable, there are still moments that disrupt the routine and force a rethink about...
India’s household balance sheet is sending mixed signals. On paper, financial savings have begun to recover after touching multi-decade lows. Yet...
The latest mass disclosure of documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein was supposed to answer a long-standing public demand: sunlight, finally, on a case...
The imprisonment of a former Prime Minister would ordinarily dominate political debate in a democracy. In Pakistan’s case, however, the deeper issue...
Across India’s states, cash transfer schemes have become among the most powerful instruments of electoral politics. Promises of direct payments,...
The confrontation unfolding in Minneapolis is no longer merely about immigration enforcement. It has evolved into a test of how far federal authority...
Every year, just before the Union Budget , the Government of India places b efore Parliament a document that rarely attracts the attention it...
India today stands at a moment that appears enviable on paper. Economic expansion remains among the fastest in the world, inflation is contained,...
India is quietly approaching a demographic turning point that its political vocabulary has yet to fully acknowledge. While public debate remains...
After nearly two decades of stalled negotiations, India and the European Union have finally crossed the threshold of a comprehensive trade agreement....
Once again, a virus has arrived not with drama, but with quiet unease ~ a few infections, a hospital ward under watch, anxious contact tracing, and...
The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis has become more than a tragic encounter between a citizen and federal agents. It has evolved into a mirror...
Republic Day has never been only about remembrance. It is also about projection ~ about how India chooses to present itself to the world at a given...
In moments of geopolitical transition, the most revealing signals are rarely found in formal declarations or signed agreements. They appear instead in...
India’s elections have always been competitive, but recent financial disclosures show the playing field is becoming increasingly unequal. Data...
As India approaches the next census, the return of delimitation to the political agenda has revived an ok- and uneasy question: how should...
The proposal being examined in Andhra Pradesh to restrict children’s access to social media reflects a growing unease shared by parents, educators....
India’s next census will confront a dilemma that numbers alone cannot resolve. It is not merely about where people live on a given night, but about...
The appointment of Nitin Nabin as the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) marks a moment that is less dramatic than it appears, yet...
The quiet splashdown of four astronauts off the California coast would normally have been routine. Instead, it signalled something unprecedented: a...
India’s push to build its own rare earth magnet industry is being framed as a leap towards strategic autonomy, but it is better understood as a late...
Pragmatic power was on display when Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado walked into the White House carrying her Nobel peace medal and...
She has been in detention for two decades, five years of them since the coup that ended Myanmar’s brief democratic interlude. Nobel Laureate Aung...
India’s juvenile justice system was conceived as a moral contract with its children: even when they stumble, the state will not abandon them. In...
Phase Two of the Gaza peace plan arrives wrapped in the language of reconstruction and technocracy, but it is built on political fault lines that have...
In the Arctic, ambition wears a colder mask. It speaks the language of security, wraps itself in maps and radar arcs, and insists it is driven by...
India approaches the Union Budget with a troubling paradox. Inflation is low, prices appear contained, and stability is widely celebrated. Yet beneath...
The renewed exchange between India and China over the Shaksgam Valley is not just another round in a long-running territorial argument. It is a...
India today stands at a curious crossroads. On paper, it is one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world. Its markets attract global...
The spectacle of a sitting Federal Reserve chair publicly disclosing a criminal investigation into himself is without precedent in modern American...
A few days ago, I was in the sacred land of Somnath to be part of the Somnath Swabhiman Parv, marking a thousand years since the first attack on...
Iran today stands at an uneasy intersection of internal decay and external pressure. The streets are restless, the economy is brittle, and the...
The Himalayas are often described as India’s natural fortress, its water tower, and its climatic stabiliser. But fortresses can crumble, towers can...
Following the expiration of the defamation notice deadline issued by Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, to Chief...
A sanctions bill moving through the US Congress would, if enacted, authorise punitive “secondary” trade measures ~ potentially including tariffs...
For a country that prides itself on treating cricket as both sport and soft power, India is surprisingly careless when it comes to separating the two....
For a country that has lived with dengue as a seasonal inevitability, the emergence of DengiAll, India’s indigenous single-shot dengue vaccine now...
The controversy over the notice issued to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is not really about a clerical error or an age mismatch. It is about the...
For decades, the 1962 war has occupied an awkward place in India’s national memory. It is recalled more for strategic failure than for individual...
India’s diplomacy in South Asia has often been accused of being overly personality-driven, tethered to familiar interlocutors and legacy...
The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to grant bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam does more than decide the fate of two undertrials. It exposes a...
Venezuela was not an aberration. It was a declaration. The forcible removal of Nicolás Maduro was presented as a corrective to criminality and...
The murder of a young man from the Northeast in a northern Indian city is not just a crime; it is a mirror held up to a society that still struggles...
India’s aviation boom has become a shorthand for its economic momentum. Passenger numbers are rising sharply, airports are expanding, and domestic...
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