Opinion

Brahma Chellaney The Quad, a loose strategic coalition of the Indo-Pacific region’s four leading democracies, is rapidly solidifying this year in response to China’s aggressive foreign policy. Following a recent meeting of their top foreign-policy officials in Tokyo, Australia, India, Japan, and the United States...

Dr Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The Maratha invasions were a series of conquests in the Indian subcontinent which led to the formation of the Maratha Empire. These conquests were started by Shivaji Bhosale on 10 November 1659 and had his first victory at the Battle of...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Inter-state movement of goods was troublesome before the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST). Every state used to classify goods according to its understanding and collected Sales Tax at different rates. For example, kraft paper could be classified as "packing material" and...

Dr. DK Giri The United States is nudging India into a closer bilateral security alliance as the latter continues to stand-off against China at the border. Also, the US faces the Presidential election November 4. Obviously supporting India, the statements emanating from US officials disapprove...

Dr. Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Odisha, as it is known today, came into being as a unified province in 1948 following the unification 27 princely states, carrying with it the scars of invasions, famines and natural calamities in iterations. The famine of 1866, for instance, killed...

Dhurjati Mukherjee In India, as per a report of National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) 2019, a woman is raped somewhere in some state every 16 minutes; and daily, an average of 88 women are raped. At least one minor was arrested for raping a woman...

Djoomart Otorbaev Much of Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, from where I write this, has been unnaturally calm for several days now. Municipal workers clean and wash the streets, but there are few passersby. There are also few signs of the recent clashes in which police used...

Melvin Durai Rejection is part of life. I’ve been rejected so many times, I should be in the Guinness World Records. But Guinness would probably reject me and I’d have to settle for Limca. I don’t keep a list of my rejections, but each one...

Klaus Schwab No event since World War II’s end has had as profound a global impact as Covid-19. The pandemic has triggered a public health and economic crisis on a scale unseen in generations and has exacerbated systemic problems such as inequality and great-power posturing....

Ajit Ranade Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they break the contract, there could be a remedy in the form of a punishment or penalty. Secondly, if the loan is against a pledged...