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Katharina Pistor The Christmas shopping season is upon us. Whether one is a believer or not it is almost impossible to resist the lure to shop and give gifts at this time of the year. But the biggest gift givers are inanimate creatures without any...

Bill Emmott Those who are disappointed by the inconclusive outcomes of the COP26 climate-change meeting, US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent virtual summit, or efforts to achieve COVID-19 vaccine equity need to wake up about the world we live in. Under...

The much publicised Democracy Summit organised by the USA in which leaders of over 100 countries, including India, participated last week appears to have turned out to be an inane exercise so far as democracy is concerned. It seems the aim was to bring together...

The attack on four Christians by members of a right wing group in Karnataka December 12 took place a day before the Karnataka Assembly begins the winter session when an anti-conversion Bill is likely to be tabled. The supposed ‘crime’ of the four was to...

The USA, under President Joe Biden, has taken on China head on, announcing diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games beginning in less than two months from now. The symbolism of the boycott is so powerful that China has immediately threatened to take ‘counter-measures’...

The killing of 14 Indians by the Army in Nagaland has resurrected the demand for the repeal of AFSPA, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Two northeast chief ministers have said they want the law to go from their states. Later this month the Nagaland...

RS Sharma has a lot on his plate. As CEO of the National Health Authority (NHA) he is responsible for spearheading the country’s efforts to provide Covid-19 vaccines to the public. The emergence of the Omicron variant has only added to the challenge. India is...

Brahma Chellaney As the world’s largest, strongest, and longest-surviving dictatorship, contemporary China lacks the rule of law. Yet it is increasingly using its rubber-stamp parliament to enact domestic legislation asserting territorial claims and rights in international law. In fact, China has become quite adept at...

Djoomart Otorbaev I still have vivid memories of my first trip to Turkey in 1993. After the Soviet Union’s collapse two years previously, we Kyrgyz gained access to a world we had hitherto only imagined. We all had Turkish relatives somewhere in the West with...

The killings of 14 innocent people in Nagaland - six in the first and the rest in two other incidents in quick succession - by the armed forces 4 December have once again brought to the fore the pertinent question, whether there is any need...