India’s decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty marks a bold departure from decades of misplaced restraint. For too long, Pakistan has exported terror across the border with impunity, hiding behind international agreements that assumed basic good faith.
On 22 April, the pristine calm of Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam was ruptured by violence of the most brutal kind. In what is now being called the deadliest civilian-targeted terrorist attack in India since 2008, twenty-six tourists, including a child and a Nepalese national, were murdered in cold blood by militants claiming allegiance to The Resistance Front (TRF), a known proxy of Lashkar-e-Taiba of Pakistan. This was not just an act of horrendous terror.
In a world where screens often substitute for human interaction and algorithms dictate attention, the notion of a safe, innocent childhood is fast slipping through our fingers.
Chaotic as it seems, Donald Trump’s tariff war and subsequent walk-backs are a deadly serious attempt by his team to address what they perceive as the core issues of the dollar-dominated global monetary system.
The Indian independence movement saw a complex interplay between personal relationships and revolutionary ideals, with freedom fighters sometimes finding love within the context of their activism.
As the war in Ukraine grinds into its fourth year, the calculus of peace appears increasingly dictated not by battlefield realities or the will of the people, but by shifting geopolitical priorities.
India's linguistic and cultural plurality is at the heart of its civilizational ethos. It is one of the few nations in the world where the Constitution itself recognizes 22 official languages in the Eighth Schedule, while thousands of other languages and dialects are spoken across its length and breadth.
The UK Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that the term “woman” under the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not gender identity or legal recognition, marks a pivotal moment in the country’s legal and cultural landscape.
As the government forecasts a second consecutive year of above-average monsoon rainfall, the implications for India’s economy ~ and particularly its rural heartland ~ are profound.
In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his path-breaking book The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, chronicled the 19th-century geopolitical chessboard involving Britain and Russia.
