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Allies in Arms

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- The announcement of a "Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement" between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia marks a striking moment in the evolving geopolitics of West Asia and South Asia. For... Read More


Echoes of Endless War

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- The world today is teetering on the edge of a deeper and more dangerous disorder than at any time since the Second World War. Global security indicators show a sharp decline in ... Read More


Gaza's Grim Reckoning

New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- The United Nations Human Rights Council's commission of inquiry has made perhaps its most damning pronouncement yet on the war in Gaza, concluding that Israel is responsible for... Read More


Merger Before the Mandate?

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- The birth anniversary of CN Annadurai, a towering figure in Tamil Nadu's political history, brought into focus once again the deep fissures within the All India Anna Dravida Mun... Read More


Fiscal Nudges Demand

New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- The recent decision of the GST Council to reduce the tax on passenger vehicles up to 1,200 cc from 28 per cent to 18 per cent marks a turning point for both consumers and the au... Read More


Politics of Violence

New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- The tragic death of Charlie Kirk in Utah, a man who once argued that some gun deaths were a necessary cost to uphold the Second Amendment, has exposed the bitter paradox at the ... Read More


Cycle of Futility

New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- Israel's strike on Hamas' top leaders in Qatar, even as they weighed a ceasefire proposal, captures both the audacity and futility of its campaign. Since October 7, 2023, when H... Read More


A Mirror To the World

New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- The turbulence in Nepal that was eventually triggered by the government's sudden ban on social media platforms is more than a story of one nation's crisis; it is a mirror to the... Read More


France's Endless Deadlock

New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- France has been plunged into yet another political maelstrom, and the repeated collapse is beginning to look less like an aberration and more like a defining feature of Emmanuel ... Read More


Safegaurding the Moral Compass

New Delhi, Sept. 7 -- There are moments when a democracy must pause to ask: who protects its moral compass when politics falters, when expediency overwhelms principle, and when power forgets accountab... Read More