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Crisis Without Exit

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- Iran today feels like a country stretched to its limits, economically exhausted at home and strategically weakened abroad, yet governed by a system that still believes force and ... Read More


Economic Hedging

New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- India's negotiations with the European Union on a long-pending free trade agreement have reached a decisive moment, and the timing could hardly be more consequential. Global trad... Read More


Long-Overdue Rewrite

New Delhi, Jan. 12 -- Beginning April 1, India will quietly enter one of its most consequential tax transitions since liberalisation. The Income Tax Act, 2025, replacing the six-decade-old 1961 law, m... Read More


Cruel Paradox

New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- Trump's first brush with Greenland was ridiculed as a real-estate fantasy-a headline-grabbing attempt by an American president to "buy" the world's largest island. Yet, years lat... Read More


Lessons Being Forgotten

New Delhi, Jan. 9 -- 17 years after the global financial crisis, the world appears to be flirting once again with regulatory amnesia. The slow, painful lessons of 2008-learnt through collapsed banks, ... Read More


Compounds of Coercion

New Delhi, Jan. 8 -- The arrest and extradition of a powerful tycoon accused of running one of the world's largest online scam networks has brought a rare moment of clarity to a murky, transnational c... Read More


Arctic Power Contest

New Delhi, Jan. 7 -- Greenland has long existed at the edge of maps and imaginations, a vast white space that most of the world could afford to ignore. That luxury is gone. Climate change, acceleratin... Read More


Layers of Legacy

New Delhi, Jan. 6 -- For more than two decades, Suresh Kalmadi stood at the heart of Indian sport-admired, criticised, powerful, and endlessly debated. His story was never linear; it was layered with ... Read More


No Easy Absolutions

New Delhi, Jan. 5 -- The Supreme Court's refusal to grant bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam marks another decisive moment in the long and deeply polarising chapter of the 2020 Delhi riots. The cou... Read More


Intervention Without Mandate?

New Delhi, Jan. 4 -- 2026 has opened with a moment that feels both familiar and unsettling, recalling older eras of great power intervention even as it unfolds in a far more complex and globally inter... Read More