The making of a Hindu India
August 26 ,2020
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By: Uday Chandra
On August 5, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya. This fu...
Why US Indo-Pacific strategy will fail
August 21 ,2020
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By: Ken Moak
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump
Since Donald Trump was elected to the US presidency, he has expan...
Modi's brutal treatment of Kashmir exposes his tactics – a...
August 6 ,2020
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By: Arundhati Roy
At midnight on 4 August 2019, phones in Kashmir went dead and internet connections were cut. On 5 August 2019, a year ago today, 7 mill...
New cold war will not stop US decline
August 5 ,2020
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By: Martin Jacques
Why has the US attitude toward China changed so profoundly?
The origins lie in the 2008 financial crisis. The relatively stable...
How Iran-China deal could alter the Middle East's balance...
July 27 ,2020
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By: Shireen T Hunter
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Chinese President Xi Jinping
The Iranian government has reportedly approved a draft 25-...
Putin had a dream to reset the world order
July 15 ,2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Moscow has a way of signalling to the White House on critical issues from time to time through public statements calibrated to catch Pr...
China, Iran deal eyes a future decoupled from US
July 13 ,2020
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By: Kaveh Afrasiabi
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
In recent weeks, Iran and China have been hammering out the deta...
US in desperate need of Pakistan as leaks reveal Russian I...
July 3 ,2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
As expected, the controversy over Russia’s alleged bounties for killing American and NATO troops in Afghanistan is steadily snowb...
Cold war with Iran complicates how US deals with China
June 26 ,2020
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By: Christian Le Miere
Almost everyone seems to think China and the US are in a new cold war. This is an easy but misleading shorthand for the relationship &n...
National security must be delinked from domestic politics
June 19 ,2020
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By: H S Panag
Indian soldiers carrying the body of their colleague, who was killed in a border clash with Chinese troops, to an autopsy center at t...
China now has the military power to alter territorial stat...
June 10 ,2020
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By: C. Raja Mohan
Why has China precipitated a fresh military crisis with India in eastern Ladakh? Among the many explanations making the rounds in Delhi...
Is a China-led world order inevitable?
May 29 ,2020
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By: Greg C Bruno
Open any news website or newspaper, and you’ll find the feud between the United States and China over the Covid-19 pandemic splas...
India and the politics of Covid pandemic
May 20 ,2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The World Health Assembly’s virtual meeting on May 18-19 has brought into focus the politics of the Covid-19 pandemic in the inte...
Shaping India’s response in a global hinge moment
May 12 ,2020
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By: Shiv Shankar Menon
The most important improvements concern its national security structures and their work, and flexibility in thinking
India finds itsel...
Trump’s threat to Iran has a hollow, angsty ring
May 8 ,2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
A tweet by the US President Donald Trump on April 22 said, “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy an...
Covid-19 human rights crackdown across Asia
April 22 ,2020
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By: Binaifer Nowrojee
Prison inmates in cramped conditions in the crowded courtyard of the Quezon City jail in Manila
Legislation handing governments sw...
Listening as governance
April 10 ,2020
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By: Amartya Sen
We have reason to take pride in the fact that India is the largest democracy in the world, and also the oldest in the developing world....
Why Ranjan Gogoi’s RS nomination is wrong!
March 19 ,2020
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By: Abhishek Singhvi
This is not an article about Justice Ranjan Gogoi.
One of the brightest judges to preside over the Supreme Court (SC), he may be the f...
Delhi’s shame is India’s shame
March 14 ,2020
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By: M.K. Narayanan
More than 100 days since protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or the CAA began, and weeks after the worst ever communal ri...
India has slid to being a majoritarian state in economic d...
March 7 ,2020
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By: Manmohan Singh
It is with a very heavy heart that I write this.
India faces imminent danger from the trinity of social disharmony, economic slowdown...
BJP is working to a plan!
March 2 ,2020
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By: P Chidambaram
Normally, common sense is sufficient to foretell an impending calamity, it does not require a sixth sense. The violence that shattered...
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Colombo Chronicle
Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
Ikram Sehgal
Karachi Canvas
Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
