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I want Iran to win. What does win mean? Iran defines it in the following way: The United States of America must lift its decades-old sanctions on Iran; it must dismantle its military bases in the Arab states; Israel must end its occupation of Lebanon;...

Now and then, public policy produces a decision so baffling that you instinctively read the news twice. The rollback of India’s revised earthquake zoning framework, within just three months, is one such decision. At the centre of this policy tremor is Housing and Urban Affairs...

Protests by thousands of pro-democracy activists in Leh and Kargil districts on 16 March, demanding, among other things, statehood for Ladakh and the Sixth Schedule status soon after the release of the face of the movement – Sonam Wangchuk – show people’s legitimate aspirations cannot...

The ongoing war between the US-Israel combine and Iran has unexpectedly turned out to be a windfall for Russia. In just about a fortnight after the war began, oil and gas prices have become volatile, and the lone beneficiary from this global crisis and uncertainty...

The widening conflict in West Asia is beginning to cast a shadow over India’s economic outlook. The country’s heavy dependence on imported energy and the structural woes plaguing its long-neglected economy, due to which there is persistently high inflation, unemployment, ever-widening inequality and a depreciating...

On 4 November 2013, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to over 120 heads of Indian missions and outlined the five principles that defined his foreign policy. These were: first, recognition that India’s relations with the world—the major powers and Asian neighbours—were shaped by its...

In Rajasthan, accountability has recently discovered a rather dramatic sense of urgency. A ten-minute technical glitch at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Banswara, when the screen briefly went blank, was apparently serious enough to cost senior IAS officer Archana Singh her post as Secretary,...

The energy crisis engulfing the whole world is deepening with no sign of the war between Israel-USA and Iran ending immediately. The common man in India has already started to pay through his nose with the rise in gas prices and the cascading effects on...

Nepal did what Bangladesh could not. Its Gen Z has transformed its pent-up anger against mainstream political parties and their leaders that exploded on the streets last September, into an unprecedented landslide victory for a fledgling four-year-old party – Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP). The results...

The insults heaped on India by senior officials of the Trump administration, including the PoTUS himself, that have become all too frequent of late, show New Delhi and its foreign policy in a poor light in this fast-evolving new world order. Ever since Donald Trump...