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Statesman News Service

UNSC reform

India carries considerable heft in the world, not just because of its rotational leadership of important bodies such as the G20 but more because of its ability and willingness to champion ideas that find resonance.

Watershed moment

Whichever side of the affirmative action debate one is on, the significance of the 29 June US Supreme Court decision which effectively ends affirmative action premised on raceconscious college admissions practices cannot be elided.

Infocracy and necropolitics

Today politics has made false gods and false villains. The greatest threat to the state, Aristotle said, is not faction but distraction. The digital media ecosystem has disempowered the public sphere which has undermined democratic discourse. Infocrats and practitioners of necropolitics have taken full advantage of the current age of abundant distraction