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Enforcement Over Optics

New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- India's move to consider shortening the compliance window for Big Tech companies under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, from 18 months to 12 months is not merely a... Read More


A Troubling New Forum

New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- The idea of a "Board of Peace" led by Donald Trump began as a narrow, time-bound mechanism to oversee the fragile Gaza ceasefire. What it has since morphed into is something far ... Read More


Cost of Crackdowns

New Delhi, Jan. 21 -- What is unfolding inside the United States' immigration enforcement system should concern anyone who still believes that democracies are defined as much by restraint as by power.... Read More


Policy's Long Shadow

New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- China's demographic anxiety is not a sudden policy headache but a recurring civilizational dilemma. For millennia, numbers have been both China's greatest strength and its deepes... Read More


The Representation Question

New Delhi, Jan. 19 -- The warning sounded by Oxfam this week should not surprise anyone who has watched politics steadily bend towards wealth over the past two decades. What should, however, give us p... Read More


Strategic Crossroads

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- India's uncertainty over the Chabahar port is not about a single infrastructure project; it is about how a rising power navigates a world that is increasingly intolerant of the m... Read More


Slide from 18th to 140th

New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- Hong Kong's slide from a global symbol of press openness to one of the most constrained media environments in the world is not a matter of rankings alone. It is a lesson in how f... Read More


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