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In 2021, I wrote a book called “Price of the Modi Years.” In one of its chapters, I compared India’s rankings on various global indices that I had been tracking over the years to see whether they had improved, stayed the same or deteriorated since...

SEBI is no stranger to turbulence, but the latest row might signal deeper cracks within its ranks. The appointment of Shikha Gupta, a former taxation head at Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL), as Executive Director (ED) has reportedly ruffled feathers among SEBI’s employees. Their contention? A...

Days after TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee voiced her discontent with the functioning of the INDIA bloc, indicating her intent to lead the alliance, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav today has asserted that the West Bengal Chief Minister should be allowed to lead...

French President Emmanuel Macron is fast running out of options to prevent France from plunging into financial and political chaos following the toppling of the Centre-Right Prime Minister Michel Barnier whom he had appointed only three months ago. It is a poor reflection of his...

It’s endgame for Bashar al-Assad, who ruled Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, the last 13 years witnessing a bloody civil war, as Damascus fell to rebel forces on 8 December in a lightning-fast offensive. The ousted president has left the country for...

The BJP’s Ram Madhav has written an article titled “For South Asia to grow, communalism must end.” It makes two points in the main. The first is that South Asia is “on track to be the fastest growing region in the world.” Despite turmoil in...

TS Eliot once characterised modern man as an individual with a “headpiece filled with straw” for stuffing his mind with things that are worthless. It was an indictment of the moral and intellectual decay of those times. Now, in the age of the internet the...

France, one of the founding states of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has dealt a harsh blow to the ICC by issuing a cryptic statement that it would grant immunity to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits France. This announcement could be interpreted...

After almost eight years of calm, Aleppo, one of the world’s oldest continually inhabited cities and considered one of the cradles of civilization, saw a return of violence on 30 November. In an unexpected offensive that seems to have significantly altered the power dynamics in...

The stunning victory of Donald Trump has sharpened focus on America’s relationship with its only peer competitor, China. Eight years ago, Trump had identified China as America’s primary threat and had acted to curb its economic rise. He did this by attempting to deny China...