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Opinion

A Trumpian Order

A week is a long time in politics, and five weeks have been sufficient for President Trump to upend the world order. Trump has no friends or enemies, only supplicants or targets; one has to become the former if one does not want to turn into the latter ~ as President Zelenskky discovered to his great cost.

Climate Pool

India's journey towards a sustainable, low-carbon economy is no longer a matter of policy aspiration but an urgent necessity.

Army as first responder

Photographs of residents of Wayanad in July-August 2024 lining up to cheer members of the Army’s rescue team as it withdrew after successfully completing its daunting rescue task post landslides dominated social media and news networks.

Shutdown Averted

The recent passage of a Republican-led stopgap spending bill has once again highlighted the deep divisions within the American political landscape. While the bill successfully prevented a government shutdown, the contentious nature of its approval underscores broader concerns about governance, fiscal responsibility, and partisan maneuvering.

New World Order

As the world moved from an American unipolar moment after the end of the Cold war, the idea of a multipolar world emerged as a popular theme.

Renewed Demands

Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar are both indispensable to the NDA Government. They have now revived their old demands of special category status for their states with renewed vigour, which they had so passionately demanded in the past.

The plan which partitioned India

It was Lenin who once said that “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. These weeks were there in the summer of 1947 when the partition plan was announced and the history of decades was written.

Politics and Governance

With the formation of the new Government, the dust has finally settled on a particularly contentious Election. BJP supporters are ruing the fact that their party did not get a majority on its own, while for the India bloc it was a case of so near yet so far.

Economic Jitters

Recent surveys highlight a growing concern among Indian households regarding the nation’s economic trajectory.