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The secretary-level reshuffle, in which nine Central ministries and departments got new secretaries, is being depicted as an opportunity for upward mobility for 1990-batch IAS officers who were waiting for secretary-level postings at the Centre for a long time. However, people are still trying to...

Michael Lind Much remains to be learned about what happened in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. But almost from the moment that rioters stormed the Capitol, it has been clear that America’s constitutional order resisted Donald Trump’s effort to subvert it. The available evidence suggests...

Peter Singer Novak Djokovic, the world’s top-ranking tennis player, has just been granted a medical exemption to take part in the Australian Open. Djokovic, who has won the event nine times (one more victory would give him a record-breaking 21 major titles), refused to show...

The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which seeks to raise the age of legal marriage for women from 18 to 21, introduced in the Lok Sabha during the winter session, appears to be yet another exercise of the BJP government in tinkering with...

Sudarshan Iyengar When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on the ascendant in Gujarat, there was a lot of talk about the so-called ‘Gujarat model that could be applied to the entire country. This of course was talking about the economic model. But not all Indians...

Since Karl Marx coined the phrase, it has become an axiomatic truth for Communists of all denominations to consider religion as ‘the opium of the masses.’ The logical corollary to it for Communist countries is to remove all vestiges of religions and subject people following...

The scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta has warned us of the Kashmirification of India. He means that the hard police state with few individual rights that India runs in Kashmir is being extended to India. If we observe the events of the recent past it appears...

The agitating farmers’ unions have called off their year-long protest against the Centre’s farm laws and ended their stir. The laws have been repealed and the farmers are now heading home feeling victorious. While they may have won over the hearts of the public with...

Jean Pisani-Ferry Twenty years ago, January 1, 2002, citizens of 12 European countries began using new euro banknotes and coins. A larger-than-life project – emblematic of a time when European leaders were bold enough to step into the unknown – thus became a tangible reality....

Robert Williams & Moritz Rudolf European countries are currently divided over whether to join US President Joe Biden’s diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing. The episode underscores yet again that when it comes to dealing with China, Europe and the United States...