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Writing history presupposes painstaking efforts to reconstruct what happened in a remote past in a manner that should ensure, as much as possible, authenticity, accuracy and above all objectivity. Available material needs to be used by the writer without colouring them with his or her...

US President Donald Trump’s remarks that there have always been tensions between India and Pakistan and the two countries will figure it out between themselves “one way or the other” sends a very clear message to India, which, at present, is being goaded, by internal...

Can a competent plan on a vital matter be incompetently executed? The United States says it is being looted by the world in trade and wants compensation. This looting has happened through the US not being able to export as much as it imports because...

If there’s one thing India’s babus do well, it’s dressing up flexibility as policy. Case in point: the latest extensions given to Sonia Narang and Abhishek Goyal, both senior IPS officers on central deputation to the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Their tenures have been extended in...

Good news is emerging from Moscow and Kyiv and US President Donald Trump’s new strategy of mixing diplomacy with threat seems to be paying off. For the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine three years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin on 21 April...

With the passing away of Pope Francis on 21 April at the age of 88, a great chapter of the papal history has been closed. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio to Italian migrants in Buenos Aires in 1936, he made history through his elevation as the...

A set pattern of attacks on the Supreme Court of India has emerged last week from two sources – one from a constitutional authority and another from a couple of ruling party MPs. First, it was Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar who criticised the Supreme Court...

China’s crime is that in the next few years, perhaps as soon as 2035, it will be the world’s largest economy. Its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will be larger at that point than that of the United States, if the average growth rates of both...

West Bengal’s decision to form its own selection committee to appoint the Director General of Police (DGP) is more than just another bureaucratic tweak — it’s a subtle political power play. By sidestepping the Centre’s approval (and the UPSC shortlist), Bengal joins Punjab and Uttar...

US President Donald Trump has created chaos in international trade and economic order through his skewed and short-sighted tariff war. But, out of the chaos a new order is slowly emerging in which China is positioning itself as the pivot. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ongoing...