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How much does it take to win an election
Without winning the trust of India’s richest, Rahul Gandhi has very little chance of putting up a fight in 2029 Let me begin with a provocative number — Rs 50,000 crore. That is how much […]
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Moving from war to deal in a deeply divided region
A fragile Iran deal masks deeper regional rivalries and uncertainties Even as the ceasefire between the United States and Iran was being repeatedly breached, the Iran war showed something that the world appears to have […]
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Religious Freedom, Reciprocity, and the Future of India’s Democratic Promise
“The United States may reasonably ask whether the openness it extends to visiting religious leaders is being reciprocated elsewhere. More importantly, India itself may benefit from reflecting on whether such restrictions enhance or diminish the […]
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The ‘harvest’ China wants is one India cannot afford
Diplomatic optics must not dictate India’s boundary negotiations with China When Luo Zhaohui, then China’s Ambassador to India, revived the idea of an “early harvest” in India-China boundary negotiations in 2017, India responded with skepticism. […]
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India’s strategic dilemma: from non-alignment to multi-alignment
The lawless acts and events of the Trump 2.0 era have become a testbed of strategic autonomy “The special and privileged strategic partnership with Russia, civilizational relationship with Iran and membership of BRICS have all […]
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Why the Bengal formula may not work in Punjab
Punjab’s real concerns are jobs, drugs and growth, not imported narratives of communal division. “BJP leaders ask Punjabis for an AAP-type chance to govern. The BJP has been part of Punjab’s inglorious political history. Its […]
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Austerity without equity will fail
If this is to be India’s forex Satyagraha, the design must match the ambition “Here lies a structural paradox in Modi’s appeal. Some of what he asks will genuinely help the current account without hurting […]
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Understanding inequality in India’s growth story
‘Low’ inequality conceals more than it reveals There have been some significant policy changes in the recent past — this includes the implementation of the new Labour Codes and the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and […]
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How three ‘isms’ failed the people of the Middle East
From Nasser to Khomeini, the region’s revolutionary ideologies have delivered only ruin “The outgrowth of these dramatic events was an explosion of terrorism rooted in three different flavors of extremist Islamism: Iranian-sponsored groups such as […]
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Pope shows Trump the mirror.
Leo XIV has boldly exposed the US President’s “delusion of omnipotence” “Vance’s incorrect advice would not have swayed the Pope, but the emailed bomb threat to his own brother, John Prevost, and other relatives living […]
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Sikhs, Partition and Political Fate
The British rejected the demand for a separate Sikh state in the event of a partition along religious lines in 1946 In undivided Punjab, Sikhs comprised an influential, though numerically smaller, community. Within the directly […]
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The imperial design of US nationalism
Education serves as an innocuous tool in America’s grand project of global dominance “The idea that knowledge is power is old and common, but its application to a gigantic political project is unique to America. […]
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