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It is a rather unsettling spectacle to watch one of the world's wealthiest countries, armed with sophisticated American weaponry and protected by...
Looks like a rather peculiar art governs aviation security. A man can apparently acquire a pilot’s licence, secure employment with a major airline,...
A commercial airliner plunges thousands of feet, a wounded captain somehow gets the cockpit door open, passengers apparently fight their way through a...
Some coincidences are coincidences; others arrive so punctually that one begins to wonder whether the universe has developed a sense of political...
Something deeply disturbing about the reaction to the flydubai Flight FZ1073 incident has surprisingly little to do with the aircraft itself. The...
What is so deeply unsettling about the latest controversy surrounding the Election Commission of India is not merely that the Commission is under...
Kerala has once again stumbled into an argument about political morality by beginning with the wrong question, “Who paid for the ride?” V.D....
There is something wonderfully revealing about the latest little controversy involving Urvashi, Supriya Menon and the apparently unforgivable crime of...
There is something almost exquisitely sardonic about the indignation with which the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has greeted the latest...
There are few places in the world more recognisably French than the Eiffel Tower. And few principles are more deeply embedded in the French Republic...
For the better part of almost a decade and a half, the BJP has operated on an assumption that would have made even Louis XIV blush with embarrassment....
There is something peculiarly revealing about the latest controversy over the now-infamous "gaumutra expert." Member of Parliament from...
Priyanka Gandhi's remark in Parliament, referring to a member of the government's examination reform panel as a "gomutra expert,"...
Politics has a curious habit of rewarding those who move last, provided they move decisively. It is not always the first actor who shapes history, but...
Politics is often less about what is happening than about what people are persuaded to look at. Governments understand this instinctively. They know...
Every generation has its defining protest, but not every protest becomes a defining political moment. The agitation led by the Cockroach Janta Party...
India has grown accustomed to celebrating ISRO’s triumphs. Every successful launch, every lunar mission and every satellite deployment is rightly...
India's ethanol blending programme has been marketed as a patriotic, environmentally responsible and economically prudent initiative. The promise...
Every war begins with a declared objective, but very few end with one. Somewhere between the first missile and the thousandth funeral, objectives give...
The brief memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran was seen by many serious observers of the West Asia conundrum as the first sign...
The proposed sale of a 49 per cent stake in Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited to the Mediterranean Shipping Company has raised questions that...
For years, Israel's political leadership has argued that Iran represents the central challenge to peace and stability in West Asia. Whether the...
The first budget of the V D Satheesan government is a serious attempt at economic course correction. At the same time, it is also a reminder that...
The announcement of a fourteen-point interim agreement between the United States and Iran has been hailed in some quarters as a diplomatic...
There is something almost surreal about the way the world is being asked to receive the announcement of a supposed peace deal between the United...
For months now, the world has been subjected to a spectacle that would be amusing were it not so dangerous. Every few days, Donald Trump emerges to...
Every few months, a familiar argument resurfaces in India's political discourse. Rahul Gandhi, we are told, will be vindicated by history. He may...
For years, Kerala's fiscal debate resembled a village festival loudspeaker. Everyone shouted, and nobody listened. While one side insisted...
There was a time when political debate involved the tedious business of arguments. One would read an article, disagree with it, marshal a few facts,...
The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad witnessed another remarkable IPL final on Sunday. Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Gujarat Titans to lift...
The most striking image from the aftermath of the Enforcement Directorate search connected to Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter, Veena Thaikkandiyil, was...
What unfolded in Thiruvananthapuram on the May 27 was not the conduct of a political movement confident in its innocence. It was the behaviour of a...
The most revealing part of the Left's crushing defeat in Kerala has not been the defeat itself. Elections are lost all the time, governments...
Donald Trump now claims that he paused another attack on Iran after Gulf leaders urged him to step back and give diplomacy another chance. One almost...
The sudden rise of the 'Cockroach Janta Party' (CJP) may look like a meme, a joke, or merely another fleeting internet phenomenon. But...
There was a time when India spoke the language of strategic autonomy with a certain confidence. One did not have to agree with every foreign policy...
The debate over the Great Nicobar project has quickly turned into a familiar shouting match. It was re-ignited a few days ago when Rahul Gandhi...
The temptation, when a country like the United Arab Emirates walks out of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), is to read it as...
There is a temptation to dismiss United States President Donald Trump as an aberration, a crude interruption in an otherwise continuous arc of...
There is a certain pattern to the way this crisis (Iran-US) has unfolded, and it is hard to ignore once you see it. A ceasefire is announced with some...
There is a particular kind of analysis that thrives in moments like this. An analysis that stitches together travel schedules, silences,...
There is a peculiar comfort in numbers. They arrive with an air of finality, stripped of emotion, seemingly untouched by ideology. In public policy,...
India is once again at one of those quiet turning points that do not announce themselves with drama, but with data. The map doing the rounds is not...
United States President Donald Trump has said and done countless stupid things in public. Few, however, match the spectacular idiocy of ordering the...
Donald Trump is once again doing what he does best. He is trying to market confusion as statesmanship, improvisation as strategy, and a pause in...
Donald Trump has a gift for taking an already dangerous situation and making it utterly morally vulgar. What should have been handled with discipline,...
India's falling rupee is not an illusion. Nor is it some harmless technical fluctuation to be explained away by the same regime that once treated...
There is a particular kind of instability that does not announce itself with declarations of war but rather advances in increments; each actor...
The conversation around Iran is rarely an honest one. It is curated, edited, and presented in fragments that serve a larger narrative. What is offered...
There are moments in geopolitics when abstractions collapse into hard reality, and right now we are witnessing one of them. For years, India has...
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