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Those who oppose openly may be considered opposition or enemy. Those who stand with you are considered favourable or friends. Those friends who ditch you when tide turns against you are betrayers whom one remembers much longer. Saying goes ‘once a betrayer always a betrayer.’...

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has drastically changed the global security environment and posed serious challenges to Japan’s security policy. The invasion of Ukraine, an independent state, is a clear violation of international law and is absolutely intolerable. Initially, some experts, like think-tankers in...

Walking down a Toronto street recently I saw an ad touting a fossil-fuel company’s net-zero credentials. But to see such belief-straining claims, I would not even need to leave my house. According to a study by the Guardian and InfluenceMap, such ads are all over...

On Friday, India’s Prime Minister used the words “urban naxals” to describe those he said were stalling construction of the Sardar Sarovar. This continues a common theme where he has attacked what is called civil society which he sees as an enemy. On 21 February...

After a decade of witnessing declining Civil Service Examination (CSE) vacancies, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has notified more than 1,000 vacancies in the CSE this year. Some observers link this jump in UPSC vacancies to jobs added in the newly created Indian Railway...

If the United States’ Pledge of Allegiance were rewritten for the world of the twenty-first century, the clause “and justice for all” could well be changed to “and climate justice for all,” given that issue’s paramount importance. A painful lesson from the last few decades...

The hijab story seems endless and global. Earlier, Indians heard of it because of a handful of college girls in Karnataka wanting to wear it to assert their religiosity in their educational institution. Now the world has heard of the hijab problem, in a diametrically...

Europe is dangerously tilting towards Far-right, hate-filled nationalistic politics making the return of Fascist-Nazi rule in new forms a distinct possibility. After the recent stellar performance of Marine Le Pen’s Right-wing outfit in France and the victory of Giorgia Meloni of Italy to be shortly...

We like to think India is in some way different from the rest of South Asia but really we are not. On the meaningful indicators there is little to separate Indians from Bangladeshis or Pakistanis. For instance, our per capita income is quite similar. In...

A rift at the top of the bureaucracy in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh does not auger well for Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and his party. Senior IAS officer Nisha Singh, who was superseded for the post of Chief Secretary by Ram K Dhiman, has now...