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Kerala Chief Secretary VP Joy’s recent visit to Gandhinagar to study the dashboard system for e-governance in Gujarat is full of portent for good governance if picked up by other states. The dashboard monitoring system was started in 2019 when Vijay Rupani was the Chief...

Before the pandemic, nostalgia was a major force in global politics. Donald Trump rose to power by promising to “make America great again,” and Brexiteers won their political battle partly by idealising Britain’s imperial past. While Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a “great rejuvenation...

France is not the United States. Many liberals, including me, worried that Marine Le Pen might just win the French presidency for the same reason that Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016: Loathing of the more liberal candidate would enable the far-right populist to...

In May last year, an 11-day war was fought between Israel and the Hamas, which governs Gaza, following clashes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and weeks of civil unrest. Over 250 Palestinians, including 66 children and 13 Israelites, including two children, were killed. An almost...

The expression, “free for all,” means a disorganised or unrestricted situation or event in which everyone may take part, especially a fight, discussion, or trading market. Free speech advocates are predicting this is going to happen in one of the most powerful social media platforms...

The two separate terms of the National Democratic Alliance government can also be seen as separate in another way. In the first, there was a desire for economic reform. In the second that desire appears to have gone in favour of something else. Let’s look...

The recent protests by Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officers about promotion and career prospects have prodded the government into action. And the action stems from the very top, triggered probably by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent interaction with Union secretaries, where he too had expressed...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced the European Union to accelerate the pace of our energy and climate policy. Since the Kremlin has increasingly used energy as a tool for political influence, we must deprive it of its leverage by radically reducing our dependence on...

Russia’s war in Ukraine is a humanitarian catastrophe that violates the UN Charter and international humanitarian law, and has exacerbated socioeconomic and environmental crises around the world. It is also the latest manifestation of a global system that does not improve the human condition. Our...

The April report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the world economic outlook gives a graphic description of the disastrous effects of the sanctions imposed by the US and the European Union on Russia for the latter’s invasion of Ukraine. This only reinforces the...