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There is no halfway, either in democracy or in dictatorship. In other words, a hybrid democracy is a dangerous commodity and a recipe for disaster for both the country where it is practised and the person or persons who implement it. One has to go...

The billion dollar question is what the real motive of China could be behind sending its balloon over the United States that was subsequently punctured by a US aircraft fired missile, causing a diplomatic imbroglio of sorts. The US accusation that the balloon was being...

The bad news from Myanmar is that its military junta has imposed martial law in areas where anti-military resistance is growing from strength to strength and extended the state of emergency for six months. It means the people there, accused of everything from treason to...

In 2018, the government of India published a report under Niti Aayog titled India@75. In it the government set itself targets that it would achieve by the year 2022. The hefty 230 page document (one wonders how many people have read it) opens with a...

Uttar Pradesh’s senior bureaucrats led by the state’s Finance Minister & Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Suresh Kumar Khanna visited the United Kingdom recently to woo global investors for the state’s Global Investors Summit to be held shortly. Sources have informed DKB that Khanna and his...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s ongoing visit to Israel is taking place in a period of intense crisis aggravated by provocative actions by the new ultra-right controlled government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Days after assuming the reins of power, the government authorised the...

As military and humanitarian aid worth billions of dollars keep pouring into Ukraine during its ongoing war against Russia, there has been creeping suspicion of misuse of the funds and corruption at high offices. The temptation seems to be too great to be resisted in...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion in Rajasthan January 28 that several attempts were made to “break India geographically, culturally, socially and ideologically” seems to have a double meaning. It may not necessarily be an innocuous statement on India’s inherent strength and resilience that has stood...

Readers may be familiar with the fall in the Adani group’s share prices last week. Indian investors were reacting to the findings from Hindenburg, an American investment firm which released an extremely detailed and damning report on the group’s practices. Hindenburg has taken a short...

The metaphorical ‘double-engine ki sarkar’ in Maharashtra is also a two-headed one – led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, with the latter as the more assertive leader and clearly the real power centre. It is an uneasy and unequal...