From Demonetization to UPI-and Now a Price on Digital Payments When India announced demonetization in November 2016, one of the arguments put forward was that a less-cash economy would make transactions more transparent, reduce the […]
Behind the summit rhetoric lie difficult choices over security, trade and diplomacy The weekend will show India using diplomacy to restore the Indian government’s domestic image, elevate its international diplomatic standing and engage Russia and […]
New Delhi should stop treating skilled mobility as America’s internal affair and put it on the table as a trade issue Indian nationals took 71% of all H-1B approvals in fiscal 2024, some 2,83,397 of […]
Research funding by Israel’s Ministry of Defense and arms manufacturers often fails to appear in national databases intended to track foreign funding. A sample of state and university audits, foreign-funding disclosures, and other institutional records […]
The constitutional doctrine of separation of powers is now in tatters “However, disruptions and sloganeering have been the norm and not the exception since the mid-1980s in legislative institutions. Political parties across the board take […]
It is creditable that the Government of India has set for itself and the nation a crucial goal: That India should become Viksit Bharat by 2047, which would be the one hundredth year anniversary of […]
The answer lies in both the unique nature of GenZ and the unprecedented economic distress they are facing GenZ from India’s towns and cities — the ones who turned up at Jantar Mantar —are children […]
U.S. presidents are virtually never able to end the stalemated wars they start When U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran in mid-June, he promised to broker a final […]
The film does not frame its narrative around separatism or religious identities “The context of the movie is indeed the “Khalistan movement” in Punjab. Yet, as the title, Punjab ’95, suggests, the movie is not […]
The widespread outrage over Satluj takedown reflects poorly on artistic freedom in India “Satluj is the powerful story of State tyranny that convulsed Punjab for a decade and a half, beginning in the early 1980s. […]
The story of America is, above all, a story of freedom, particularly the quest for religious freedom. The Pilgrims who arrived on American shores were English Separatists determined to worship God according to the dictates […]
10 years after Brexit, Britain is still arguing about immigration, identity and sovereignty For much of the twentieth century Britain was admired for the predictability of its political system. Today, foreign observers increasingly see a […]
As a major power, India must demonstrably remain strong-willed, but never appear churlish “The real issue for Pakistan is if it can convert the goodwill it has garnered to transform the country’s economy. This is […]
The economic principles taught in school aren’t as relevant as hype, connections and total, arbitrary control Elon Musk is now the world’s first trillionaire, after his SpaceX exploration and satellite company went public on the […]
Police officers got distracted by allegations of racism while failing to recognize who had actually been attacked Britain likes to think of itself as a practical country. This is, after all, the nation that gave […]
Anxieties about Iran’s missile capabilities, proxy networks and nuclear ambitions have quietly accelerated new patterns of security cooperation across West Asia and the Caucasus For decades, Israel imagined itself as a lonely fortress in a […]
Even the most anti-immigration voter will back a program that’s clearly beneficial to the country. Consider the field of AI. About 70 percent of the top AI researchers working in the U.S. were born or […]
Hubris never fails to bring overconfident politicians down In the recently-held elections to five Assemblies, three sitting governments were ousted — in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal — while two, in Assam and Puducherry, […]
The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) is a water-distribution treaty between India and Pakistan to use the water available in the Indus River system in the territories of the two countries. The treaty was negotiated by […]
The UAE’s departure from OPEC reflects a strategic bet that its national interests are better served by acting as an independent, high-capacity producer rather than as a disciplined member of a constrained cartel. “The UAE’s […]
The opposition’s move to defeat the 131st Constitution Amendment Bill was not at all about women’s reservation. It was about stopping the government from redrawing India’s electoral map under cover of empowerment “The public today […]
It’s a shame the Trump vs. Pope Leo mess makes serious discussion of “just war” theory impossible. “The pope’s unique job is to constantly call the leaders of nations to reason their way to viable […]
Multiple cases before the justices could remake rules on district boundaries, campaign finance and the eligibility of certain mail-in ballots “Each of these rulings may have cascading effects, all in the middle of the election […]
The speech was largely a reassertion of the claims he has been making over the past few weeks and also underscores his limited options in the ongoing war with Iran With Mr. Trump lacking an […]
Israel is quite possibly the leading actor. Israeli’s military narrative runs dramatically differently from that of the US. “Most analyses of the American defeat correctly attributed it to political and military failures in the US. […]
© The Indian Panorama