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The unseemly spat between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari during a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) session has done no good to the cause for which the two attended the meeting in the US. On the contrary, it...

Constitutional amendment number 103, upheld by the Supreme Court recently, has been appreciated by our middle class, the core votaries of Hindutva. The opening up of reservations to all demonstrates the view that Hindutva is inclusive. Other parties are divisive because of their propensity towards...

Arift has appeared and seems to be widening between Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers and those in Customs and GST over protocol, involving guard of honour and salutes ‘demanded’ by IRS officers. Customs officers say that these rituals interfere with their duties of apprehending economic...

As climate chaos threatens the Global North and the lifestyles of the world’s richest people, we might expect to hear elites demand a rapid exit from reliance on fossil fuels. Instead, a controversial idea is coming to the fore: dimming the sun. Advocates claim that...

Nouriel Roubini thinks the global economy is “lurching toward an unprecedented confluence of economic, financial, and debt crises, following the explosion of deficits, borrowing, and leverage in recent decades.” Is he right? At the risk of sounding Panglossian, I do not regard such a disaster...

In the 182 seat Gujarat Assembly, the recently concluded 2022 election results gifted 156 seats to the BJP which was 52.50% of total votes. The Congress got 17 seats or 27.28% of total votes polled. With a mere 5 seats to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),...

The killing of a man by an Israeli soldier in broad daylight in the occupied West Bank has once again brought back the spectre of violence and bloody confrontation between Israeli armed forces and Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power as Prime Minister with the...

If one cannot actually be a leader one can pretend one is a leader. It is like wearing combat fatigues and strutting about like a real warrior. This is especially useful when the audience doesn’t know one is pretending and media is in on the...

The ongoing power tussle between Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Governor Arif Mohammed Khan is inevitably affecting the babus. The Vijayan cabinet recently expressed displeasure at the manner in which a senior babu of the state pointed out certain flaws in the draft bill...

The massive public protests that have raged across Iran since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the morality police in September arrived at the World Cup. Ahead of its 6-2 loss to England last month, the Iranian team refused to sing the Islamic...