Opinion

Ashok Mahapatra The world is facing turbulent times. Economists and historians have expressed different views on China’s role in this and visualised as to where the world is headed to. Other views also abound, coming as they do from global leaders, diplomats and political analysts....

Carlos Alvarado Quesada and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus The COVID-19 pandemic began less than six months ago, but we have already learned a great deal about the disease. Scientists around the world are looking at new and improved methods of detecting the novel coronavirus as early...

Brahma Chellaney Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “not in a good mood,” US President Donald Trump recently declared, as he offered to mediate India’s resurgent border conflict with China. After years of bending over backward to appease China, Modi has received yet another Chinese...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Curiously, the government is asking people to boycott Chinese goods; and simultaneously sitting like a lame duck and allowing imports from China. This will not work. We have made a commitment to the effect that we will not impose an average import duty...

Dr. AD Sharma In the unprecedented scenario of the present Covid-19 pandemic, where almost whole of the world population is confined to their homes, the use of cellular devices has risen astronomically. We are using cell phones more than ever, be it for “work from...

Dr. DK Giri The ongoing India-Nepal border tensions have caught national as also international attention. Indian diplomats and commentators have not yet brought up the coincidence of timing of China’s incursion into Ladakh, and Nepal bringing up a new map to show parts of territory under...

Jeffrey Sommers African American George Floyd's death at the hands – and under the knee – of the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has triggered a wave of peaceful protests and violent rioting in most major cities across the United States. Caught on video for...

Jyotirupa Satpathy Mind runs into a storm, heart thunders and a rain of tears ooze out of our eyes while we see or read about the painstaking tales of distressed multitudes across the country, caught between the Covid and the lockdown. Sights and tales of...

Shivaji Sarkar The long march of crores of migrant workers might have become a political issue, but there is nothing new to this in the Indian context, except that Covid-19 has brought to the fore a crisis that’s simmering for long. The erstwhile Planning Commission...

Vappala Balachandran It is disappointing to find Indian websites not easily yielding the text of the epoch-making 1993 “Agreement on the Maintenance of Peace and Tranquility along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China Border Areas”. Consequently, one has to search external sites like...