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From glory to obscurity

The Buckingham Canal, an architectural marvel of the early 19th century, stretches 796 kilometers and once served as a lifeline for the region, linking the bustling city of Madras (now Chennai) with the port town of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.

Rohingya Exodus

The Rohingya crisis remains a glaring example of the international community’s failure to address a prolonged humanitarian disaster.

Services Surge

India’s services sector, which has assumed a key role in its economy, continues to demonstrate remarkable resilience, with growth accelerating to a five-month high in August.

Governance Outsourced

In tales of yore, there was always a Bahadur, at some level, accompanying Sahib Bahadur on his exploits. Though Sahib, now renamed as Boss, may star in office anecdotes, but Bahadur, or his modern avatar, is almost always missing ~ Boss has to do everything alone.

Empowering youth for political engagement

Since the founding of the Republic of India, it has maintained the status of a vibrant democracy and is widely regarded as one of the most stable countries in the region.

Ukraine’s Debt

Ukraine’s recent debt restructuring stands as testament to its resilience amid adversity. Faced with the immense financial strain of a protracted conflict with Russia, Ukraine’s ability to negotiate one of the largest and fastest debt restructurings in modern history highlights the determination and strategic acumen of its economic leaders.

Jobs and exports

India's economic growth has been remarkable in recent years, earning it the title of the world's fastest-growing major economy. Yet, beneath this headline success lies a significant challenge: job creation.

Striving for truth

Delivering the Hibbert lecture at Manchester College, Oxford in 1929, Dr S Radhakrishnan said “religion today is a branch of statecraft, a plaything of politics.”

Cross-currents

The on-going conflict between Israel and Hamas has reached a critical point, one marked by deep national divisions and a growing public outcry.

Ecological migrants~II

Since the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), a non-governmental organisation based in Geneva, started collating data on persons displaced by disasters in 2018, this set of the population has been increasing.