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In a disconcerting development that could pose a serious threat to India’s strategic interests, Afghanistan has decided to join the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The foreign ministers of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan announced this at Beijing last week as part of broader efforts to...

The project of democracy is essentially about the liberty of the individual. Adherence to social mores and cultural values can be appealed to under any form of government. Democracy, the culture of it, the practice of it, the spirit of it, must lift a nation...

With just days to go before acting DGP Prashant Kumar hangs up his boots on May 31, the race to lead Uttar Pradesh’s police force is heating up—but so far, all smoke, no fire. The state government hasn’t yet sent a shortlist to the UPSC,...

It is not without reason that Sunday, 18 May, was regarded as an electoral “Super Sunday” when millions of voters across three European countries - Romania, Poland and Portugal decided the fortunes of candidates belonging to liberal, pro-European Union on the one hand and Far-Right,...

After a laudable show of unity by the Indian government and the Opposition on the terrorist attack in Pahalgam on 22 April and the subsequent Operation Sindoor to take on cross-border terrorism and Pakistan’s collusion in it, the two sides of India’s political establishment appear...

The first direct parleys between Russia and Ukraine in three years should have been a watershed moment in the ongoing war between the two countries. But, it took less than two hours in Istanbul on 16 May to become crystal clear that the direct negotiations...

The historian Max Hastings described the Second World War as primarily the death grapple between two gargantuan monsters — Adolf Hitler’s Nazi armies against Joseph Stalin’s Soviet forces. The rest, Winston Churchill’s speeches and the American struggle against Japan in the Pacific, was at the...

Hostilities between India and Pakistan have ceased, for the moment, but when your neighbour has a history of lobbing more than just cricket metaphors across the fence, you’d better have a plan. India does. And it’s not all missiles and meetings—it’s bunkers. Those underground shelters...

The outcome of any war between two unequal forces could be predictable – maybe the stronger side wins and the weaker side loses. But, when two mighty forces clash, the result does not show any decisive winner or loser. Hence, the way US President Donald...

I t is of great significance that Robert Francis Prevost, who has succeeded Pope Francis, repeated the word ‘peace’ ten times during his speech delivered recently at Saint Peter’s Square. He also used the word ‘bridge’ three times. At the same time as the new...