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PM’s Brainstorming

It’s not every day that a Prime Minister spends hours in brainstorming sessions with senior bureaucrats. But that’s exactly what Narendra Modi has been doing. Recently, he was huddling with his top babus in marathon meetings to “reboot governance” under the Modi 3.0 banner. The...

Shoumitro Chatterjee & Arvind Subramanian

The New China Shock

By Shoumitro Chatterjee & Arvind Subramanian China’s rising trade surplus is once again causing unease in the United States and Europe. But the real casualties from this new “China Shock” will not be in the West. They will be in the developing world, where hundreds...

Brahma Chellaney

Xi’s Purges

Brahma Chellaney During his 13 years in power, Xi Jinping has steadily tightened his grip on all levers of authority in China – the Communist Party of China (CPC), the state apparatus, and the military – while expanding surveillance into virtually every aspect of society....

GenZ

Behold Gen Z

A new wave of political movements without any so-called ideological underpinning except for deafeningly noisy demands for basic citizens' needs and livelihoods is sweeping across the world from the Andes to the Himalayas. After Nepal, the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Peru and Morocco, it is...

Trumpian Dilemma

After showing admirable and decisive toughness in defusing the crisis in the Middle East, US President Donald Trump has been going back and forth when it comes to dealing with the Russia-Ukraine conflict. For some time, he has been saying that he wants to see...

Rights & Restrictions: AAKAR PATEL

Empty Ambition

When was the last time you read or saw something about India and the G20? And what do you recall from that memory? Like me, for many readers, the answers are most likely to be: when India was in the presidency a couple of years...

Power of Continuity

Market Power

The power corridors are abuzz again, but not over taxes or budgets this time. Eyeballs are fixed on who’ll get to wield the next big regulatory stick. The government’s hunt for new full-time members of SEBI, the capital markets watchdog, has thrown up two clear...

Trump, Netanyahu

Historic Deal

There is no doubt the way fighting in Gaza was ended and a peace process set in motion in the presence of 20 top world leaders, including the US President Donald Trump, represented October 13 a historic moment. In Israel, the release of living hostages...

Trump-Maria

Peacemakers

There is rejoicing as peace has started to return to the heart of the war-ravaged Middle East, and a ceasefire has come into force between Israel and Hamas in the presence of some of the top leaders of the world. It is heartening to see...

Afghanistan

Afghanistan As Friend

Some politicians and feminists are screaming that it is outrageous that the Taliban could display its misogyny on Indian soil by barring women journalists – both Indian and foreign - from attending a Press conference addressed by Afghanistan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi at its...

 

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