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The collapse of the Iran–US peace talks in Islamabad marks yet another sobering moment in a conflict that has already destabilised West Asia and sent ripples through much of the global economy. Despite marathon negotiations lasting over 20 hours during the high-level direct engagement, both...

By Aakar Patel I am not sure why but we find the idea of international mediation distasteful. This distaste is both for those being mediated and for the mediator. We know this because of our insistence, under all of our governments it should be said,...

By Dilip Cherian At what point does a staffing shortage become a governance failure? Madhya Pradesh may have already crossed that line. The state is short of over 150 IAS officers against its sanctioned strength. By all appearances, that’s not a marginal gap but a...

The world is forced to pass through harrowing moments by the rantings of US President Donald Trump. In his latest, Trump has said “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not make a deal after saying he will take Iran to “stone age”...

It is disgraceful and a pity that US President Donald Trump has resorted to using expletives directed at Iran that no civilized person, not to speak of the head of state of the world’s mightiest country, should ever do. His abuses came when diplomats of...

The ongoing conflict between Iran and the US-Israel combine is beginning to tell a story far removed from the early projections of swift American dominance. Instead, what is emerging is a far more interesting new narrative in which Iran is not only resisting but actively...

By Aakar Patel We are in the second month of what is settling in to become a long war and I thought I should put down a few observations. The first is that nations around the world are preparing their populations for what is coming...

By Dilip Cherian There’s a familiar outrage cycle in India: a project stalls, costs spiral, and we instinctively reach for the “corruption” label. It’s neat, satisfying, and often incomplete. Because sometimes, the system isn’t leaking. It’s freezing. Take the coal block allocation case. A Delhi...

It is the fifth week running since US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the war against Iran. But till date no clear strategy and goal for the unprovoked and one-sided war have been defi ned. The US is relentlessly continuing...

While a big war is being waged in the Middle East, global attention has moved away from another theatre of genocidal war and ethnic cleansing. The perpetrators are taking full advantage of the situation. Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing has been nominated for the...