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Global Watch | Street Power Vs State Power: PTI’s High-Stakes Gamble In Islamabad

Global Watch | Street Power Vs State Power: PTI’s High-Stakes Gamble In Islamabad

Imran Khan’s unyielding stance and the military’s threat perception have landed him in jail on charges that remain deeply contested and highly...

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Right Word | Indus Waters Treaty: Six Decades Of Indian Restraint, Pakistan’s Strategic Miscalculation

Right Word | Indus Waters Treaty: Six Decades Of Indian Restraint, Pakistan’s Strategic Miscalculation

India's decision reflects the view that water cooperation cannot be separated indefinitely from the larger security environment

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Global Watch | Selected Over Elected: How Islamabad Overrides POK’s Mandate

Global Watch | Selected Over Elected: How Islamabad Overrides POK’s Mandate

The local population of the POK and the world at large have come to know about the dirty politics of Islamabad and how it controls the region

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Right Word | Ladakh’s Constitutional Future: Why Article 371 Matters

Right Word | Ladakh’s Constitutional Future: Why Article 371 Matters

The reason that makes Article 371 a better option for Ladakh can be found in a provision that receives little attention in the public debate

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Global Watch | Paying Price Of Insecurity: How Pak's Security Crisis Is Undermining China's CPEC Dream

Chinese companies have forced Beijing to confront a difficult truth: billions of dollars cannot guarantee success when the operating environment...

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Right Word | How Ladakh's New Lifelines Can End Its Isolation

Administration data cited in August 2026 states that the total road length has grown from 1,799 km in 2019 to over 4,200 km, while the number of...

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Global Watch | China’s Himalayan Information Gap: How Floods In Nepal Exposed Beijing

China shared weather warnings before the disaster, but the floods exposed a deeper gap in real-time hazard data from across the Tibetan frontier.

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Global Watch | Nepal's Himalayan Disaster Puts China's Mega-Dam Ambitions Under Fresh Scrutiny

China's latest undertaking is the enormous hydropower development on Yarlung Zangbo - the river that becomes the Brahmaputra after entering India and...

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Right Word | Decoding ‘Hindu Nationalism’: How Selective Frameworks Misinterpret It

Viewing Hindu nationalism through selective analytical frameworks is a deliberate attempt to reduce an ancient and spiritual civilizational ethos to a...

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Global Watch | Can Diplomacy Be A Substitute For Economic Mismanagement In Pakistan?

Pakistan’s diplomatic influence is growing, but whether it can translate that into economic strength without deeper political and institutional...

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Right Word | Shadow Games Across The Border: Petrol Bombs, Youth And Hidden Cost Of Easy Temptation

Punjab is seeing a rise in low-intensity attacks linked to Pakistan-based handlers, with young men lured by quick money into terror networks & left to...

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Global Watch | One Territory, Two Claims: Why India Holds The Stronger Position In Arunachal Pradesh

India placed standard names for 27 locations and geographical features in Arunachal Pradesh on the official Survey of India map.

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Right Word | FCRA Amendment Bill, 2026: A Reform India Needed

Every sovereign state regulates foreign money that flows into its political and social life, and India is entitled to do the same

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Global Watch | Two Years After ‘Uprising’, Bangladesh’s Political Future Remains Uncertain

Bangladesh’s present political fate faces profound challenges

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Right Word | Why Abrogation Of Article 370 Was A Strategic Necessity For India

Seven years after Article 370's abrogation, unrest in PoJK has reignited the debate. Did New Delhi's 2019 move strengthen India's security at a...

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Global Watch | When Words Whitewash Violence: The Media's Blind Spot On PoK

The state erased the evidence, and the press largely accepted that erasure as an editorial inconvenience instead of the most significant news of the...

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Right Word | 1999 Kargil War: When Courage Climbed Higher Than The Himalayas

Kargil remains as one of independent India's defining military victories given unfavourable odds against which the Indian Army fought

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Global Watch | Pakistan's GSP+ Lifeline Faces Europe's Toughest Test Yet

From enforced disappearances to blasphemy laws, an EU report says Pakistan must show real reforms or risk losing the trade preferences that power its...

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Right Word | Stop Asking India For Restraint: The Lessons Of Kargil War

A power asked to underwrite the commons cannot simultaneously be lectured into absorbing terrorism at home.

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Global Watch | The ‘Great Bend’ Gamble: China’s Mega-Dam Is Rising Where The Himalayas Are Still Breaking

The project is located in one of the Himalayas’ most geologically complex areas, marked by steep terrain, deep gorges, and active fault systems

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Right Word | Why Seven Hill Councils Mark A New Chapter In Ladakh's Governance

Ladakh Chief Secretary has called the step a major move towards democratic decentralisation and grassroots governance, and said the model has no...

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Global Watch | Politics Of Opportunism: The Many Faces Of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

The paradoxes in Jamaat’s political posturing are more prominent than ever as it constantly finds its old baggage unboxed while attempting political...

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Right Word | Great Nicobar: Understanding India’s Most Strategic Infrastructure Project

Given its location at one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints, the project carries strategic significance that extends well beyond the...

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Opinion | Decoding Indus Waters Treaty (Part- 6): The Road Ahead

The next bargain, if one is to be reached, will reflect the realities of the twenty-first century rather than the optimism of the mid-twentieth

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Global Watch | From Ram Statue Halt To Mob Violence: BNP Government’s Surrender To Islamists In Bangladesh

The BNP government needs to practise what it has been preaching and stop surrendering to the Islamist forces that pose an existential threat to...

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Opinion | Decoding Indus Waters Treaty (Part- 5): Pahalgam And The Pause

The doctrinal scaffolding India had assembled over the preceding decade was now load-bearing

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Opinion | Decoding Indus Waters Treaty (Part- 4): Weaponising The Treaty

Pakistan moved from raising legitimate technical objections to running a sustained legal warfare campaign against every Indian project on the western...

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Opinion | Decoding Indus Waters Treaty (Part- 3): The Treaty That Survived Wars

Successive Indian governments, of widely varying ideological complexions, treated the treaty as a matter of national honour

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Opinion | Decoding Indus Waters Treaty (Part- 2): The Making Of A Treaty, A Bargain India Made For Peace

Nehru would tell Parliament after signing that India had purchased a settlement. The phrase was carefully chosen

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Opinion | Decoding Indus Waters Treaty (Part- 1): The Rivers That Shaped A Civilisation

How an intricate canal network became an ongoing geopolitical chessboard

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Right Word | When Messenger Becomes The Message: Why Ladakh Needs Institutions, Not Personalities

A cause tethered to one person rises and falls with that person. A cause embedded in institutions endures.

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Global Watch | Can Bangladesh’s Oldest Political Force Awami League Stage A Comeback?

With local elections likely to happen in September-October, anticipation is on the rise of Awami League’s resurgence

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Right Word | Bloodshed In POJK: Dissent, Crackdown And Reality Of ‘Azad’ Kashmir

What is unfolding in PoK is not an isolated incident, but rather the latest manifestation of a structural problem that has existed since the territory...

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Global Watch | Why EU’s Kashmir-Ukraine Equivalence Is A Strategic Error

Strip away all the talk of values and shared democracy, and what is left is plain old realpolitik—and here the EU's conduct becomes very difficult...

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Right Word | Growing Anti-Hindu Violence In Bangladesh And Its Strategic Fall-Out

The persistence of attacks under the newly elected BNP government suggests that communal violence is increasingly rooted in local impunity networks

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Opinion | Why PoJK Is Boiling - And Islamabad Is Sweating?

The Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), the group spearheading the movement, has announced a territory-wide shut down on June 9.

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Right Word | Mandate-Rejection Continuum: Cockroach Phase Of India’s Opposition Politics

After the 2014 mandate, the refusal took the form of doubt about Electronic Voting Machines. After the 2019 mandate, it became outright denial that...

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Right Word | The Relic Route: How India Is Using Buddhism As A Bridge Across Asia

India has long understood, at least in theory, that its Buddhist heritage gives it a unique standing in Asia

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Global Watch | What The Leaked Cipher Reveals About Power In Pakistan

The episode highlights how vulnerable Pakistan’s political order remains to unelected actors capable of translating external preferences into...

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Global Watch: From Saaf Pani To Toshakhana, Pak Military’s Expanding Shadow Over Courts

The Saaf Pani and Toshakhana cases are not simply legal stories but windows into Pakistan’s evolving political order where justice is not blind, but...

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Right Word | One Blood, One Civilisation: How Tribal India Is Reclaiming Its Civilisational Legacy

A large section of tribal society that continues to follow its original cultural traditions is still struggling for its rights

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Global Watch | Operation Sindoor: A Case Study In Precision Warfare Vs Strategic Miscalculation

As the region moves forward, Operation Sindoor stands as a case study in the evolving nature of conflict in the subcontinent

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Right Word: A Turning Point In Indian Politics: West Bengal And The Onset Of Modi 3.0

From polarisation to consolidation of Hindus behind Modi, this marks a new phase in Indian politics

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Global Watch | Between Washington And Tehran: Pakistan’s Gamble With Its Own Stability

Pakistan under Asim Munir seeks to mediate between the United States and Iran to regain relevance, but faces high geopolitical, economic, and domestic...

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Right Word | Ideology As The Glue: Why The BJP Retains While Others Lose Leaders

The core difference between the BJP and the other mainstream parties, when it comes to checking exodus, is ‘ideology’

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Global Watch | Mapping The Chinese Cartographic Offensive: A Silent War In The Himalayas

Over time, a state that names, maps, and bureaucratically references a territory generates a documentary record of effective control, even if its...

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Right Word | Congress, Women’s Reservation And A Troubled Democratic Record

The way the Congress is celebrating the failure of this bill may be viewed in the historical context of its relationship with Constitutional as well...

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Right Word | How Ambedkar Examined Pakistan, Hindu-Muslim Unity, And Congress Politics

Dr BR Ambedkar approached these issues less as a politician and more as a rigorous thinker committed to the truth, however inconvenient

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Global Watch | A Life In Whispers: The Quiet Fear Of Being A Minority In Pakistan

The tragedy is not only in the suffering itself but in how normalised it has become

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Right Word | In An Age Of Doomsday Narratives, Vatsalya Gram Offers A Story Of Hope

Sadhvi Ritambhara, known more as a firebrand leader and one of the leading lights of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, has created a unique Bharatiya...

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