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Palestine

Palestine Prospect

I t was a significant moment in the history of the struggle of Palestinian people to get a state of their own, when French President Emmanuel Macron officially recognised the Palestinian state at the United Nations on 22 September. Alongside France, which co-convened the meeting...

Pak-Saudi

Pak-Saudi Pact

What has been unofficial for years is now official. Saudi Arabia’s landmark mutual defence pact with Pakistan signed on 17 September could come with double benefits for Pakistan. It will greatly strengthen Islamabad and help it play a major role in the geopolitical strategies planned...

Donald Trump

Cost of Ineptness

US President Donald Trump on Saturday, 20 September, once again asserted that it was he who stopped the four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan in May through trade. Since 10 May, when Trump announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to...

Rights & Restrictions: AAKAR PATEL

Bunch of Thoughts

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is celebrating its centenary and its epic successes in the cultural and, especially, political field. Readers who are familiar with the organisation, the font of Hindutva ideology, but unclear about what it specifically stands for might benefit from this column. The...

Bureaucratic Betrayal

The gleaming new Kartavya Bhavan-3, showcased as the crown jewel of the Central Vista project, is already sparking discontent among the very babus meant to occupy it. The Central Secretariat Service (CSS) Forum, representing over 13,000 officials, has written to the Prime Minister’s Office and...

REUTERS/Chris J. Ratcliffe

Stirring The Pot

More than half a million people marched along the streets of London 13 September protesting against immigration. This was one of the country’s biggest Right-wing demonstrations ever, with some protesters clashing with the police and wounding at least 26 officers. Now contrast this with the...

Democracy

Degrading Democracy

  I t is the sign of the times, transcending geographical frontiers, that democracy is being grotesquely distorted, giving a raw deal to the ordinary citizens for whom this form of government was supposed to be the best conceived as of now. The ruling class...

Jair Bolsonaro

Brazilian Justice

In a landmark verdict, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court, that country’s highest judicial authority, on 11 September convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup d’état following his defeat to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the October 2022 presidential elections. After a lengthy...

Majoritarian Momentum

An American scholar has written a book in which he tries to explain China’s recent rise. Dan Wang’s thesis is that China is a society of engineers and its government is the rule of engineers, as compared to the US, which he classifies as a...

Dilip Cherian

CBI’s Glass House

India’s top anti-corruption watchdog, the CVC, has just delivered a stinging reality check to the CBI, and it’s not a flattering picture. The agency that loves raiding others for “delays, irregularities and misconduct” seems to have no time for the skeletons in its own cupboard....

 

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