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Prime Minister Narendra Modi may love his babus but the increasing involvement of former babus in politics is causing tensions among the BJP cadres. This trend has gained momentum in recent times. While former civil servants have taken significant roles within the PMO and government,...

The just removed US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy looks like a pathetic figure and virtually symbolises the chaos the American democratic institution has plunged into. Lately, he had been wooing ‘radical’ elements in his Republican Party who are beholden to former President Donald...

It is certainly a piece of good luck that in these troubled times the message of peace has preceded the sound of war drums. It is also a queer coincidence that the theatres of war and peace this time are located in the heart of...

Saturday morning’s surprise and totally unprecedented attack by air, land and sea by the ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip in Israel’s southern parts seems to be a colossal intelligence failure of Israel. The world over, Israel was known as the Mother of...

The world’s largest economy is the United States, which has a GDP of $26 trillion. Then comes China with $19 trillion. Third is Japan ($4.4 trillion), Germany fourth ($4.3 billion) and fifth is India ($3.7 trillion). During last month’s Vibrant Gujarat summit, the prime minister...

IAS officer Rinku Dugga has been compulsorily retired by the government in the public interest on the grounds of “lack of integrity and ineffectiveness.” It’s worth noting that this decision was handed down almost two months ago. Curiously, the government asserts that this action is...

Bad news comes for India from Maldives. The Indian Ocean archipelago occupies a crucial position in the geopolitics of the region and it is courted by both India and China. The political power play in the country is dictated by the choice of its top...

The ‘pink tide’ that swept across much of Latin America in the past few months installing Leftist governments in Brazil, Chile and Colombia looks like receding in Argentina which will elect its President later this month. An anti-incumbent streak that lifted the Left could soon...

Something is seriously wrong in China. Even as it goes on testing India’s military mettle and teasing the political leadership ruling the country, sneaking into its borders or claiming a whole bordering state as its own, it seems to have huge problems in its own...

Four centuries ago, the ambassador Sir Henry Wotton defined a diplomat as “an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” Our External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar (the ’S’ stands for Subrahmanyam, his father, who was instrumental in weaponising India’s nuclear...