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Rahul Jacob: Expect an early Halloween as trade scares worsen globally

New Delhi, April 23 -- There is no place better than the Canton trade fair to get a sense of the direction of global trade. Across 1.6 million square metres, Chinese suppliers set up stalls and take e... Read More


Rahul Jacob: Recall what Keynes and Kennan had to say

New Delhi, April 9 -- At an event to celebrate George Kennan in 1994 on the eve of his 90th birthday, the diplomat credited with the strategy of containment that guided US policy towards the former So... Read More


A series of unfortunate lit fest events

New Delhi, March 7 -- Imagine a literary festival not as encounters with favourite authors or listening to fascinating debates but instead as embarrassing onstage debacles, serialised episodes of misa... Read More


Pope Francis inspires hope across the globe for good reason

New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- Just days before Pope Francis was hospitalized with pneumonia in the middle of this month, he criticized the Trump administration's mass deportation of immigrants in blunt terms.... Read More


Book review: A walk on the wild side with Amitav Ghosh

New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- In the opening essay of Wild Fictions, which looks at migration through an altogether original prism, Amitav Ghosh observes that illegal immigration is often not by the destitute... Read More


Rahul Jacob: Are we destined to remain tangled up in red tape?

New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- Even the most globetrotting and good natured of business executives are guaranteed to find India's rules and regulations bewildering. This week, a chief executive visiting from L... Read More


Rahul Jacob: DeepSeek's big AI shake-up holds policy lessons for India

New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- In today's world, the only predictable constant, as the cliche goes, is unpredictability. On 21 January, US President Donald Trump appeared with OpenAI's Sam Altman, Oracle's La... Read More


Rahul Jacob: DeepSeek's big shake-up of AI holds bigger policy lessons for us

New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- In today's world, the only predictable constant, as the cliche goes, is unpredictability. On 21 January, US President Donald Trump appeared with OpenAI's Sam Altman, Oracle's La... Read More