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The defeat of the Bill linked to women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha on 17 April is not merely a legislative setback for the government. It is a revealing episode in India’s political theatre, one that exposes how a widely supported democratic reform can be...

By Aakar Patel What explains our inability or, if we are to be charitable, our reticence, to influence the world around us? Like the rest of the world, India is negatively affected by the American-Israeli war on Iran. Indeed, Indians have suffered and continue to...

By Dilip Cherian If you thought turf wars in Delhi were messy, Tamil Nadu has just offered a tighter, sharper version: two authorities, one post, and zero clarity. In the middle of election-season churn triggered by the Election Commission of India, a new DGP took...

It is not difficult to understand US President Donald Trump’s latest strategy of the US Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. It is clearly intended to cripple the main source of Iran’s economy and is essentially a posturing for greater leverage to force Iran...

The landslide victory of Hungary’s opposition Tisza party, led by Peter Magyar April 12, bringing an end to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year grip on power is a major blow to Far-Right politics across Europe. Orban had, over the years, become a poster boy of...

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...