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Denial of Voting Rights to Undertrials: Blinds Spots in India's Democracy

New Delhi, June 8 -- India's blanket ban on prisoner voting under Section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 ("RPA"), is facing renewed constitutional scrutiny in Sunita Sharma v. Uni... Read More


Bangladesh's 'Red Telephone' Breach: More to it Than Meets the Eye?

New Delhi, June 8 -- During the seven-day Eid-ul-Adha holiday, something extremely alarming reportedly took place inside the office of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. Security experts view t... Read More


Why the Bay of Bengal Is Becoming the Heart of Asian Geopolitics

New Delhi, June 8 -- The twenty-first century is increasingly shaped by maritime geopolitics. While global attention often focuses on the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, another key maritime ar... Read More


Why India and Pakistan Must Move From Rivalry to Responsibility: In Fragmenting Global Order, South Asia Cannot Afford Internal Paralysis

New Delhi, June 6 -- India and Pakistan do not only carry the burden of their own hostility. Their rivalry holds back the whole of South Asia. For nearly eight decades, the region has lived with wars,... Read More


Navigating the Intelligent Tide: How AI and Generative AI are Reshaping Maritime Mobility in South Asia

New Delhi, June 6 -- South Asia's seaports form the circulatory system of one of the world's fastest-growing economic regions. India alone routes more than 95 percent of its international trade volume... Read More


Be the CEO of Your Own Health: A Scientist's Guide to Navigating Modern Medicine's Blind Spots

New Delhi, June 6 -- I. The Industrialization of the Clinical Gaze Nearly five million people globally lose their lives each year due to avoidable medical interventions. We have entered the era of in... Read More


Between the Melody Moment and the Hard Work Ahead: Modi's Europe Tour Outcome Will Depend on Delivery in Coming Years

New Delhi, June 6 -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's five-nation tour of Europe last month, covering the UAE, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Italy between May 15 and May 20, generated the ... Read More


Non-Material 'Presence' in the Age of AI: A South Asian Reclamation of the Spirit Against the Machine

New Delhi, June 5 -- How the author of Framing South Asian Transformation (1994) was inspired to write TiME FLiES - a novel featuring a 22nd-century 'presence' in the 17th-century court of Kandy - is ... Read More


Reforming Higher Education: A Reset Moment for Kerala Universities After Years of Drift

New Delhi, June 5 -- For decades, Kerala - one of India's most literate states with a 95.3% literacy rate - took justifiable pride in its educational achievements. Schools reached the remotest corners... Read More


The Splinternet and Fractured Digital World: Will Sovereignty Serve People, or the State, or Whoever Owns the Server?

New Delhi, June 5 -- For 88 days in the Iran War, Iran did not simply restrict the internet; it pushed an entire society of 96 million into digital darkness. Digital businesses collapsed, dissents fro... Read More