Insight

Deepak Dwivedi NEW DELHI: In an age when authoritarian regimes engineer silence as deftly as they engineer steel, the written...

Sukumar Sah NEW DELHI: The world today is far more economically vulnerable to a Taiwan crisis than it was to...

Prabhu Chawla NEW DELHI: In the grand theatre of international relations, admiration is the cheapest currency diplomacy trades in. It...

MJ Akbar On Sunday, May 3, word spread through the gossip arcades of social media that Calcutta’s markets had run...

Prabhu Chawla In the blazing midday sun on May 9, history did not merely turn a page at Kolkata’s Brigade...

Sukumar Sah For decades, India-Russia relationship has rested on three pillars: defence cooperation, diplomatic trust and geopolitical convergence. But the...

Prabhu Chawla There is a particular kind of perfidy that arrives dressed as fortuity. It arrives with ceremonial fanfare and...

Prabhu Chawla NEW DELHI: Democracy is a sacred social settlement which presumes a covenant of consent, consultation and constant accountability....

Sukumar Sah NEW DELHI: For years, India’s economic competitiveness has been held back by a persistent constraint: the high cost...

MJ Akbar NEW DELHI: The first international war on the passage of oil over water began with America’s demands and...