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Pavan K. Varma | Should Indian diplomacy be faith-based or hard-nosed?

Debunking myths in India's foreign policy, stressing national interest over idealism and global validation

27 Oct 2024 12:00 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | A Titanic fate lies ahead for Tories as...

“Yazdegard the Third Through surveillance heard The Arab hordes were swarming in the West. By the year...

26 Oct 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Patralekha Chatterjee | South discomfort rises amid imbalance in an...

Demography is politics. Unsurprisingly, demographic changes in India -- ageing in the southern states and the...

26 Oct 2024 12:04 AM IST

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Krishnan Srinivasan | Will Beijing try to avoid a new trade war with...

Having formulated the rules of international trade during and after the Second World War, the United States and Western...

25 Oct 2024 1:24 AM IST

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K.C. Singh | Need transparency, caution in Sino-India ties, LAC deal

The 16th Brics summit was held in the Russian city of Kazan on October 22-24. A 134-paragraph Kazan Declaration covers ...

25 Oct 2024 1:20 AM IST

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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Israel can celebrate Sinwar’s killing, but no...

Israeli jubilation at the elimination -- the politically correct term for murder – of the Hamas commander, Yahya...

24 Oct 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Dilip Cherian | EC’s mixed signals: Two poll-bound states, but...

The Election Commission of India (EC) has taken two very different stands in handling police appointments in the...

24 Oct 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Looking beyond the fog of ‘short-term’ results

Most institutions in India are characterised by “short-termism” -- privileging near-term results over long-term trends...

23 Oct 2024 12:10 AM IST

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Aakar Patel | Amid US-Canada row, our lack of a national security...

The international rules-based order is a euphemism for the jungle rule that defines global power politics. “The strong...

22 Oct 2024 12:24 AM IST

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | 62 yrs after 1962: China hasn’t changed one...

At the United Nations General Assembly session last month, and again at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation heads of...

22 Oct 2024 12:19 AM IST

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Saeed Naqvi | Sinwar’s death is temporary relief for Israelis, will...

Hassan Nasrallah’s death in Beirut similarly fuelled resistance in south Lebanon. Was the IDF able to break the...

20 Oct 2024 10:24 PM IST

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AS Dulat | J&K: The importance of being Farooq Abdullah

Off and on, when I asked him how he would manage “accommodation”, Doctor Sahab’s response was: “Togetherness, not...

20 Oct 2024 10:13 PM IST