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Empires were once forged in iron and fuelled by coal; today, they may fracture over elements most people cannot spell. In the circuitry of the modern...
In the run-up to every election in India, political parties roll out a dazzling menu of promises like free electricity, free bus rides, cash...
For decades, Bhutan cultivated a reputation unlike any other nation in South Asia. It projected itself as a kingdom that measured happiness over...
For decades, India has treated the rupee less as an economic instrument and more as a symbol of national prestige. Every fall against the dollar...
On 19 February, as India celebrated the legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, a wooden sailing vessel named INSV Kaundinya was completing a...
India stands at a critical juncture. In an era defined by data, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and rapid technological change, scientific...
The recent Gulf War has unsettled global energy markets, disrupted shipping routes, and shaken investor confidence. For India, heavily dependent on...
Authoritarian systems rarely collapse in the dramatic fashion imagined by outsiders. More often, they decay internally long before they visibly...
The World Health Organization’s decision to classify the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo as an international public health emergency is not merely a...
In August 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The physical devastation was almost total:...
Since time immemorial, West Bengal politics has been synonymous with violence backed by a syndicate. While the Left governments created this...
India cannot become a global infrastructure powerhouse merely by importing machines. Machines are assets; skilled workers denote capability. A tunnel...
Operation Sindoor was fought as much through propaganda and misinformation as it was through military action across the border. The moment India...
For decades, Goa occupied a singular place in the global imagination. It was not merely a beach destination, but a cultural mood ~ inexpensive,...
For decades, West Bengal has lived on memory. The state that once led India in commerce, finance, manufacturing and intellectual life slowly ceded...
The relationship between India and Italy has now reached a decisive stage. In recent years, our ties have expanded with unprecedented momentum,...
India’s new gaming laws are being framed as regulations. In reality, they redraw the boundaries of what kinds of gaming are allowed to exist. With...
April 14 marked World Quantum Day, a global initiative aimed at public understanding of the quantum science and technology that shapes our modern...
The crisis engulfing Britain’s Labour government is no longer merely about the future of the prime minister. It is rapidly becoming a referendum on...
For months, Washington and Tel Aviv projected the confrontation with Iran as a campaign designed to fundamentally alter the strategic balance in West...
The appointment of Lt Gen Raja Subramani as the next CDS has drawn criticism from multiple quarters, though the logic in some cases is bizarre. Even...
For more than two decades, India’s information technology industry built something genuinely admirable: a world class services engine that became...
There was a time when speaking of India’s civilisational past in policy circles invited a knowing smile, sometimes a pitying one. The fashionable...
Nepal’s new political establishment appears determined to redraw the rules of engagement with the outside world. The shift is subtle but...
US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing hoping to showcase deal-making. He left having showcased something else: the changing balance of global...
Exactly at 5 pm on 29 April, all TV stations worth their salt began to harangue viewers with electoral data ~ never mind the fact that due to Election...
The Opposition’s problem is no longer merely ideological confusion or organisational weakness. It is increasingly a failure of political maturity....
I grew up in Kolkata at a time when public life carried a certain dignity. Politics was not merely a contest for power; it was also an exercise in...
The West Bengal assembly election has just ended with the swearing in of the new government on 9 May 2026. The process started some time in November...
There is a particular quality to the silence that settles over a coal mine when operations cease. The machinery stops. The conveyors go still. The...
Election victories create headlines. Debt creates governments’ destinies. Across India’s states, political transitions are increasingly colliding...
For years, the Congress high command has been accused of rewarding proximity over performance. In Kerala, however, the party appears to have...
On 16 May 2014 the people of India gave an electoral verdict that changed the country decisively. Over the past 12 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
As the dust settles over West Bengal’s electoral mandate, one re ality stands reinforce d – welfare-driven governance continues to enjoy public...
India’s gig economy is growing fast, but so is the risk of injury on the job. The gig workforce has grown from 7.7 million in 2020-21 to nearly 12...
For nearly two decades, Indian politics has steadily moved towards a welfare consensus. From cash transfers and subsidised food to free electricity...
India’s economic messaging has undergone a subtle but unmistakable shift over the past week. For years, governments celebrated rising consumption as...
The high-priest of realpolitik, Henry Kissinger, nuanced asymmetric forces by insisting that, “The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The...
The rhetoric surrounding the Iran conflict may still speak the language of ceasefires and negotiations, but the strategic reality points elsewhere....
India’s medical entrance examination crisis is no longer about one leaked paper, one compromised centre or one criminal network. It is about the...
The world India is navigating today is far more uncertain than the one we inhabited even two years ago. West Asia remains volatile, threatening...
As an observer of electoral politics in West Bengal – and increasingly of democratic life across India – one is compelled to confront an...
The massive electoral mandate of the BJP stands in stark contrast to an almost broken and dysfunctional state that it inherits. Lawful governance...
Tamil Nadu has not merely elected a new chief minister. It has broken a political structure that appeared immovable for nearly six decades. The...
For the first time since the Ukraine war began, Moscow appears to be preparing its public not for escalation, but for transition. President Vladimir...
When the TMC government go t electorally ambushed on 4 May 2026, the focus could have immediately shifted to the immense potential that the newly...
The reported plan of the new BJP government in West Bengal to shift the state secretariat back to the Writers’ Building in BBD Bagh from Nabanna,...
The decision by the United Arab Emirates to step away from OPEC marks more than a routine policy shift; it reflects a deeper fracture in the logic...
The assembly elections of 2026 may eventually be remembered less for individual victories than for the collapse of political certainties that had...
India’s labour debate has long been trapped between two extremes. One side argues that higher wages inevitably kill jobs. The other assumes better...
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