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Justice in Conflict

The clash between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Israel over arrest warrants for key Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, brings to the forefront a longstanding debate about accountability, self-defence, and international justice.

Missile Brinkmanship

The escalation in the Ukraine conflict, marked by Russia’s unveiling of a new intermediate-range ballistic missile, represents a significant shift in the dynamics of global warfare.

Past resurrected

Is there life after death? After millennia of Vedic-Puranic teachings and learnings, the answer is definitely a resounding 'Yes'. Nothing dies, it changes form; nothing is born, it assumes new forms.

A walk with Ruskin Bond

Apart from the satisfaction of being in conversation with writers and artists, I sometimes, as a happy bonus, had a walk or two with the likes of novelist I Allan Sealy and travel writer Bill Aitken after the interview was over.

Bursting the bubble of country experts

Geopolitics is the game of strategists figuring out how countries behave.The Ukraine war has shown how assumptions about countries, or the behaviour of their leaders are wrong, plunging the world into what Henry Kissinger has called a “totally new era”.

Engaging with Myanmar’s military based on strategic calculations

The history of Myanmar is the history of struggle with coups, military rule, religious persecution, and ethnic conflict. On this course, the intense ongoing violence between the country's military and organised armed civilians is now leading the country to the verge of a full-blown civil war that is unlikely to end anytime soon.

Miller & Kishan

Keith Miller hated Don Bradman’s ruthlessness, especially when employed to pulverise county sides in England. He would come on when sent in and, however easy the bowling, would uninhibitedly throw his wicket to restore sanity to the game.

France in focus

The flux in the contemporary geopolitical situation is testing the closest of bilateral relationships between nations, and there are few stronger than those between India and France. The strategic partnership between the two countries has been deepened in several key areas from defence to education, climate, energy, digitalisation and technical collaboration.