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The gleaming new Kartavya Bhavan-3, showcased as the crown jewel of the Central Vista project, is already sparking discontent among the very babus meant to occupy it. The Central Secretariat Service (CSS) Forum, representing over 13,000 officials, has written to the Prime Minister’s Office and...

More than half a million people marched along the streets of London 13 September protesting against immigration. This was one of the country’s biggest Right-wing demonstrations ever, with some protesters clashing with the police and wounding at least 26 officers. Now contrast this with the...

  I t is the sign of the times, transcending geographical frontiers, that democracy is being grotesquely distorted, giving a raw deal to the ordinary citizens for whom this form of government was supposed to be the best conceived as of now. The ruling class...

In a landmark verdict, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court, that country’s highest judicial authority, on 11 September convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup d’état following his defeat to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the October 2022 presidential elections. After a lengthy...

An American scholar has written a book in which he tries to explain China’s recent rise. Dan Wang’s thesis is that China is a society of engineers and its government is the rule of engineers, as compared to the US, which he classifies as a...

India’s top anti-corruption watchdog, the CVC, has just delivered a stinging reality check to the CBI, and it’s not a flattering picture. The agency that loves raiding others for “delays, irregularities and misconduct” seems to have no time for the skeletons in its own cupboard....

The memories of the deadly al-Qaeda strikes on 9/11 on iconic US building complexes are still alive even after several American administrations virtually wound down what was once called the “global war on terror.” As the attention of the world is now riveted on Israel-Hamas...

Violence erupted in Kathmandu 8 September as thousands of young Nepalese took to the streets and clashed with security forces, leading to the death of at least 19 persons. The unprecedented showdown is being described as an uncontrolled outburst of rage of the country’s youth...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on 7 September announced his resignation, a move that could usher in a period of political uncertainty and policy paralysis in the world’s fourth-largest economy. Ishiba, the country’s third prime minister in five years, has directed the ruling Liberal Democratic...

As someone who prefers India as a pluralist and secular society, I have my problems with this government as many editions of this column will have shown over the years. This is based on a difference rooted in ideology and principles. I think, like many...