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Elizabeth Drew When the election gods handed Joe Biden the presidency in 2020, they set a trap that he walked right into. The question – one that could define his presidency and affect the 2024 presidential election – is whether he can escape the trap...

India seems to be waking up, at long last, to the reality of maintaining good and workable relationships with its neighbours. Whether it is rather too late in the day or if the adage - better late than never – will hold good only the...

What has been happening in Bangladesh since the commencement of Durga Puja was only waiting to happen following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. The day the religious bigots captured Kabul and the Afghanistan government abjectly surrendered to them, it was clear to the...

Reports emerging from China suggest a fierce power struggle is being waged at the top of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Trouble is brewing as the wily President Xi Jinping plays his cards to get a controversial and unprecedented third term as General Secretary of...

In 2015, India’s ranking on the Global Hunger Index was 55. Last year, in 2020, it fell 39 places to land at 94. India went behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The index tracks undernourishment, child stunting (low height for age), child wasting (low weight for...

Jayati Ghosh There are many reasons to be critical of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, but the legitimacy crisis now confronting both institutions is not based on any of them. Instead, it has arisen for the wrong reasons, and this is serving...

If anyone has any doubt about the RSS being the nerve-centre of BJP governance, be it in the states or at the Centre, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks October 10 on conversion of Hindoos should dispel it. Those controversial harangues and different...

Ratan Tata, the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, tweeted that the return of Air India (AI) to the group would have gladdened the founder of the airline in pre-Independent India, JRD Tata, had he been alive now. For Tatas, getting back Air India must have...

It is interesting to note that in the first place, there never was no Nobel Prize for Journalism or Freedom of Expression. Yet, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded November 8 two journalists – Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia –the Nobel...

In his speech of 8 August 2019 explaining the move to ‘deoperationalise’ Article 370 (it has not been revoked or removed as is widely assumed), the Prime Minister said the following: That the development of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh was being held back by Article...