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Column writing is referred to as ‘punditry’ in America. Their definition of a pundit is “an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called upon to give their opinions to the public.” However this is not how punditry usually expresses itself. Newspaper...

No one’s willing to bell this cat! The dramatis personae are still largely the same, but a stealthy U-turn was in the works, say those in the know, at Sanchar Bhavan. The question that isn’t being asked yet is whether the government acted in haste...

Michele Barry & Geeta Rao Gupta One in four. That’s the proportion of American women who are considering downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce due to the impact of Covid-19. In just one year, the pandemic has driven more than two million women in...

There is ample reason to be worried over the use of weaponised drones for cross-border terrorist activities after the first ever drone attack by suspected terrorists in Jammu. This sort of a serious drone attack might surprise many in India. However, for the rest of...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) will turn 100 July 1. When the party was founded in 1921, the CPC had only about 50 members and China was then an impoverished and weak country being bullied by foreign powers. Hundred years later, the CPC today...

The death of Vandana Mishra, Chairperson of the Kanpur chapter of the women’s wing of Indian Industries Association last week demonstrated one of the ugliest aspects of the feudal mindset of Indians. 50 year old Vandana had recovered from Covid-19 a month and a half...

Till four years ago, the Indian government would use the phrase “fastest growing economy.” The prime minister would repeat the phrase “one bright spot in the global economy” to describe, and used it last at 8 pm November 8, 2016, when he gave us the...

At a time when eking out new tax revenues in a shrinking economy is the only goal, an unwarranted self-goal has a lot of knickers in a twist in North Block. The question that’s hovering over Raisina Hill is why fix something that isn’t broken?...

María Fernanda Espinosa & Danilo Türk Great power competition, the troubling rise of xenophobic nationalism, existential environmental threats and the ongoing Covid-19 onslaught present major global governance challenges. Against this backdrop, world leaders have tasked United Nations Secretary General António Guterres with recommending steps to...

James K. Galbraith In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes – correctly – that Power’s “first big test ... lies in what America does...