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A recent video of IAS officer Tina Dabi bowing repeatedly to BJP leader Satish Poonia has gone viral, sparking a lively debate over the power dynamics between politicians and civil servants. Dabi, a former UPSC topper and now district collector of Barmer, Rajasthan, greeted Poonia...

It’s now over two and half years since Russia invaded Ukraine and the war between the two countries is now far more dangerously poised with far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world than what appeared before. The West’s fear that other countries may be...

Voters in Japan have spoken and delivered the loud and clear message to the ruling coalition that they cannot be taken for a ride with gimmicks or the political trick of changing a discredited Prime Minister. Just as voters in India recently did not allow...

One of the key indicators of the health of an economy is the size of its middle class. A burgeoning middle class means a robust economy where consumption keeps pace with the economy’s growth. In India, that is Viksit Bharat, amid all the tall claims...

Let us discuss what is called merit. The British middle class is 60 per cent of the population. The working class, the set of people employed in labour and other blue-collar work, is 14 per cent. In India, what is called the middle class is...

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has taken two very different stands in handling police appointments in the poll-bound states of Jharkhand and Maharashtra, reflecting its distinct approaches to maintaining election integrity. In Jharkhand, the ECI has directed the removal of Acting Director General of...

On paper the BRICS summit being held in Kazan, Russia, from 22 October to 24 October aims at strengthening multilateralism for “just” global development and security. But, in reality it is a great opportunity for Russian President Vladimir Putin, locked in a prolonged war with...

In electoral politics the ruling dispensation often tries to offset the anti-incumbency mood of the electorate by changing the head of the government with a cleaner and new face whose mettle is yet to be tested. Sometimes the strategy works, sometimes it does not. In...

A Bangladeshi court ordering an arrest warrant against Sheikh Hasina on 17 October has only aggravated New Delhi’s predicament vis-à-vis the former Bangladeshi Prime Minister’s stay in India. For Hasina, it is ironic that now she will be tried in the same International Criminal Tribunal...

The international rules-based order is a euphemism for the jungle rule that defines global power politics. “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” is a line from a famous history text written some 2400 years ago that is the...