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Tobias Bunde There was little cause for geopolitical optimism in 2021, and this grim trend has continued at the start of 2022. Almost every month over the last couple of years, a fresh emergency has dominated the news, contributing to a sense of a mounting...

It is Imran Khan, Pakistan’s iconic pace bowler, who made ‘reverse swing’ a special weapon in his armoury to fox batsmen and bowl the opposition out thereby winning matches. But, now as prime minister of his country he is facing a different kind of ‘reverse...

It is an irony that when Sri Lanka’s foreign minister GL Peiris spoke highly of improved Sri Lanka-India relations, Sri Lankan Tamil MP CV Wigneswaran asked India, hours before Peiris’ arrival in Delhi last week, to be wary of the understanding between Sri Lanka and...

The battle of ballots for the most crucial state in Indian politics – Uttar Pradesh – has begun just as four other states, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand, are getting ready for polls in the next few days. That the outcome in UP will have...

Yet another issue of fundamental rights of individuals versus the rights of the State has reached the Supreme Court. As is almost routine in our time, it concerns minorities. At issue is whether Article 25 allows the government some room to prohibit the wearing of...

Former Oil Secretary Tarun Kapoor’s appointment as chairman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has been noted with considerable interest by industry watchers. If a regulator comes from many years in the industry, he has a vested interest in this and that...

Ruben Maximiano Not every sitting US president invites comparisons with a Roosevelt, let alone two members of that storied family. Since taking office just over a year ago, Joe Biden has frequently been likened to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who introduced the New Deal in...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known for his gift of the gab and he displayed it once again during his over an hour-long reply February 7 to the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address. He is also known to be an...

The hijab controversy that has erupted in educational institutions in Karnataka is a disturbing development, to say the least. In a communally surcharged climate that has been prevailing in India for the past few years it is unfortunate the way the right to education and...

China remains as inscrutable as ever, even as the Winter Olympics in Beijing February 4-20 has virtually turned into a political war of attrition between China and Russia on one side and the USA and its allies on the other. India, which two months back...