Saffron party gears up to overpower strong regional forces in 2026 Assembly elections “Undaunted by the not-so-encouraging statistics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi framed the Bengal battle with an image and a metaphor that he believed […]
The exceptional amity heralds new domains of strategic cooperation, with the potential to anchor bilateral, regional and global developments in a more consequential manner As adrenaline-high at the Saudi-American Summit last week demonstrated, the 80-year-old […]
Monday brought good news for two of Donald Trump’s most hated enemies: the former FBI director James Comey, and the New York state attorney general, Letitia James. A federal judge dismissed the sham indictments the […]
“It is a profound irony that a party’s rise to power through a fair, transparent, and democratic process can ultimately weaken the very system that enabled its ascent. It raises questions about India’s political trajectory […]
The BJP, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, is making an incessant effort to erase the Nehruvian legacy but build one of its own by denying, distorting, defaming, and destroying the real History of this […]
The future of immigration policy is linked to a willingness to confront the dark past and the brutal realities of the present The arrival of Columbus in the New World marked the beginning of a […]
Sajjan serves a life term, Tytler faces trial — proof of victims’ relentless fight against power Forty-one years after the 1984 Sikh genocide, in which 2,733 Sikhs were brutally killed in Delhi (as per official […]
A troubling reality unfolding across the United States today is the growing disillusionment of a large segment of the people, mostly young, who are politically and economically upset with the current status quo. Their concerns […]
This is the real danger. When outrage turns profitable, civility becomes costly. The judiciary, bound by decorum, cannot compete in that marketplace. That composure was constitutional philosophy in action. The CJI’s deliberate lack of reaction […]
Even pre-independence India, with 450 million people and 12.6 million square miles, had around 600 princely states. Modern New Jersey, with 9.3 million people and 8,722 square miles, has 564 princely fiefdoms — each with […]
The danger is no longer in the future—it’s already here. As rituals replace reason, and holy men replace elected representatives in moral authority, India risks becoming a de facto Hindu nation in all but name. […]
By 2014, before the Modi government came to power, India’s GDP had reached nearly $2 trillion, the 10th largest in the world, with foreign reserves of $300 billion. Telecom penetration had exploded, highways expanded, and […]
Next week world leaders will gather for the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, and that despite the Trump administrations’ scorn of multilateralism, “the world can’t afford to abandon the mission of the UN simply because […]
Endemic corruption, nepotism, inequality and misgovernance had angered the people of Nepal. “An unsettled Nepal will seriously jeopardize Indian interests. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rightly underlined that stability, peace and prosperity of Nepal are […]
“When India is judged on tariffs, there are two parameters which are used. One is simple average tariffs, and the other is trade-weighted tariffs. If you use the former metric, India’s tariff does seem high […]
The recent revelations by Rahul Gandhi, the opposition leader in India, pointing to the election irregularities in Karnataka and Maharashtra, are shocking and yet sad. Undoubtedly, the solid evidence provided to show the massive fraud […]
Trump’s tariffs and the penalty he is likely to put on India for purchasing Russian oil have undeniably introduced a new layer of complexity to the Indo-American relationship Good diplomacy aims for win-win situations where […]
Public opinion appears to have turned against the Yunus interim regime — with growing economic distress, the shared refrain seems to be a yearning for the ‘earlier and better times’ Bangladesh today is abysmally different […]
The recent pronouncements by the United States regarding the potential imposition of a 25% tariff on all Indian imports, coupled with an unspecified “penalty” tied to India’s energy purchases from sanctioned countries like Russia or […]
A narrow understanding of the term, as well as Israel’s history as a haven for genocide victims, explains the dissonance Why is it so difficult for some to accept that the Israeli government is committing […]
Even if the precision of the World Bank’s inequality estimates is discounted, a significant improvement in India’s international ranking is a fact Inequality is an important concern for the political economy of a democracy. However, […]
The same dynamics that enabled the Emergency in India now threaten the U.S.; the lesson is that tyranny thrives when institutions become hollow “Every generation must reclaim democracy for itself. The battles our forebears fought […]
Mamdani’s promises speak to a deep hunger for change. But unless he and his campaign begin to share detailed, actionable, and financially viable plans, these promises risk becoming yet another chapter in New York’s long […]
While many countries support the IAEA’s role in non-proliferation, they demand respect for national sovereignty and equal access to nuclear technology. “Safety of nuclear facilities – enrichment plants, fuel fabrication units, power plants, waste storage […]
India’s tough message on terrorism and Pakistan will find more takers if it plays to its advantage it being a secular, stable and rule-abiding democracy History and literature are replete with references to not ‘shooting […]
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