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Imagining A New South Asia - and Its Unrealised Freedoms

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The recent earthquake in Afghanistan with its ensuing loss of lives and property has sent tremors through the region. From faraway India, many of us send solidarity and good wis... Read More


Pillorying Those Who Visited Israel: Sri Lankans Should Not Be Denied Alternative Perspectives

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The unwarranted frenzy stirred up from some sections in Sri Lankan society targeting journalists and others who visited the State of Israel, including myself, labelling the dele... Read More


We Cannot Veto Our Children's Future: How Our Collective Inaction On Climate Change Is The World's Most Devastating Veto

New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- A single hand rises in the United Nations Security Council. That was on 18 September 2025. With that gesture, a call for a ceasefire is silenced. That image is now seared into o... Read More


Dealing With China: Negotiation, Deterrence And Strategic Choices for India

New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- The Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China remains one of the most sensitive borders in Asia, embodying both the unresolved legacies of history and the geopolitica... Read More


Saudi Arabia-Pakistan Security Pact Has Strategic And Economic Ramifications

New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- History rarely offers neat repetitions, but the Saudi-Pakistan defence pact announced this week bears an uncanny resemblance to another turning point: Britain and France's humil... Read More


Saudi-Pakistan defense pact has profound implications for India, Middle East

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- The Saudi Arabia-Pakistan defense pact, with the possibility of Islamabad guaranteeing Riyadh nuclear protection, is fraught with profound implications not just for India and th... Read More


Nepal Needs Change: Protests Must Transition To Productivity And Renewal

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- The Gen Z protests of 2025 didn't happen all at once. They were the result of a decade of growing frustration: high youth unemployment, deepening corruption, and a political cyc... Read More


Trans-Border Rains: How Climate Change is Drowning India and Pakistan

New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- A relentless monsoon across the India-Pakistan border has devastated hillsides and communities across Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkashi, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtun... Read More


Cricket Must Not Lose Its Soul: Competition Not At Cost Of The Game's Spirit

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- Cricket, once celebrated as the "gentleman's game," has undergone a fundamental transformation. The rise and growth of franchise cricket and different T20 leagues around the wor... Read More


India-Pakistan: Breaking the Stalemate, Changing the Narrative

New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- The India-Pakistan rivalry remains one of the most volatile conflicts in global politics. With diplomatic ties severed, trade halted, and cross-border hostility simmering, the s... Read More