Opinion

Ajit Ranade The just-concluded BRICS summit in Delhi may not be remembered for a particularly muscular declaration. But that may miss its more important consequence for India. Did BRICS help accelerate the thaw in India-China relations? India’s diplomatic achievement was not that it convened the...

Bhagirathi Jena The evening air was warm on my terrace as my wife showed me an image that felt like a portal to another time. There we were, rendered in the grainy aesthetic of a 1980s film poster. Our hair was voluminous, our clothes carried...

Shlomo Ben-Ami US President Donald Trump has once again shared a map on which the American flag covers not only the United States, but also many other countries, including Canada, Cuba, Greenland, and Mexico. The message is clear: in today's world, where might makes right...

By Siba Sankar Sahu A map is never merely a picture of the Earth. It is an argument about how the Earth should be seen. This argument has acquired fresh relevance after the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on 4 September titled “Correct...

By Santosh Kumar Mohapatra India’s reported 7.8 per cent real GDP growth in the April–June quarter of 2026 has triggered debate over how fast the economy is growing and how that growth is being measured. Nominal GDP grew by 10.3 per cent while real GDP...

By Sanjay Kumar Kar Under India’s Presidency, New Delhi is gearing up to celebrate twenty years of BRIC formalisation. Members such as Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, along with partner countries, are moving forward under...

By Dhurjati Mukherjee August was the hottest month for the world as it was for India. The IMD shared a recent report by climate science platform Climate Brink, which forecast that 2026 is likely to become the warmest ever. This year is on track for...

By Javier Solana & Angel Saz-Carranza A quarter-century ago, the world changed course in an instant. The new millennium had roughly coincided with the arrival of new presidents in the United States and Russia, then the world's two greatest military powers. But the September 11,...

By Brahma Chellaney Twenty years ago this month, the foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, and China held the first meeting of the BRICs. Since then, the grouping has been formalised—the first BRIC summit took place in June 2009—and expanded, with South Africa joining in...

During an interview with Margaret Hoover on her public affairs programme Firing Line With Margaret Hoover, broadcast on 4 September, author Salman Rushdie drew a comparison between the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Such a shallow comparison is historically flawed...