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We like to think India is in some way different from the rest of South Asia but really we are not. On the meaningful indicators there is little to separate Indians from Bangladeshis or Pakistanis. For instance, our per capita income is quite similar. In...

A rift at the top of the bureaucracy in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh does not auger well for Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and his party. Senior IAS officer Nisha Singh, who was superseded for the post of Chief Secretary by Ram K Dhiman, has now...

As shocking as it may seem, as many as 828 million people in the world go to bed hungry every night and the number of those facing acute food insecurity, meaning one step away from starvation, has gone up from 135 million to 345 million...

India missed an opportunity to consolidate its relations with its most steady and trusted neighbour, Bangladesh, when its Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited Delhi for four days last week. The foreign services establishment could have killed two birds with one stone. It could have drawn...

The delusion creating statement by India that it has reached an accord with China which will imply withdrawal of combatants of both countries from Patrolling Point 15 in Eastern Ladakh will certainly go down well with the applauding domestic crowd. No one will question whether...

The Supreme Court of India has generously allowed citizens the right to protest “in designated area”. It had said this in its judgement and criticism of the Shaheen Bagh sit-in against the citizenship amendment law and the National Register of Citizens. Its observation was that...

This one went down to the wire. Until the last moment, no one was sure whether UP’s Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi would get an extension or be allowed to superannuate. The radio silence on the issue from both the Yogi Adityanath camp...

Just over three decades ago, the Cold War ended, and former Soviet-bloc countries began their transitions to market economies, which enabled them to engage with the rest of the global economy. The world’s division into three segments – advanced capitalist economies, centrally planned socialist economies,...

Consider the following statements describing our moral judgments: If a child is hungry, or hurt, the child’s parents or friends have a greater obligation to help than a stranger does. If we have to choose between saving the life of a human or that of...

Liz Truss, the Right-wing Conservative Party leader, becomes the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom replacing Boris Johnson who had to resign in the wake of what is known as the ‘Partygate’ scandal. She is the country’s third woman PM from the same party...