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Breaking ‘Sarpanch Pati Raj’
28 Dec 2025 12:59 AM ISTDespite three decades of constitutional reservation ensuring women’s entry into grassroots politics, real power often remains with husbands who...
Collapse of a Ceasefire
20 Dec 2025 8:30 PM ISTRenewed clashes between Thailand and Cambodia reveal how unresolved borders, political survival, Chinese arms and strategic rivalry are reshaping...
Dirty Underside of Green Transition
19 Dec 2025 12:04 AM ISTAs the world debates carbon emissions at climate summits, toxic pollution from critical minerals, hazardous air and contaminated water is quietly...
Allies in a Flux
14 Dec 2025 1:38 AM ISTAs the IMEC stalls and Eurasian groupings rise, India and Russia are crafting a relationship shaped by logistics pacts, energy security and a shared...
A Volatile Subcontinental Shift
6 Dec 2025 11:10 PM ISTAs secular foundations weaken and authoritarian impulses strengthen, South Asia faces a dangerous convergence of radicalism, political vacuum and...
Asia's New Uncertainty
29 Nov 2025 6:12 PM ISTJapan’s new leadership, China’s assertiveness, Taiwan’s crossroads, and America’s ambivalence have set the Indo-Pacific on a precarious, unpredictable...
New Political Reckoning?
28 Nov 2025 12:11 AM ISTMamdani’s election has reignited the question of whether capitalism and democracy can still coexist, as rising inequality and democratic decline push...
Old Ideas, New Chaos
22 Nov 2025 6:59 PM ISTAs Trump leans on the Madman Theory and Manifest Destiny to reshape US power, America confronts mounting debt, global pushback and a rapidly shifting...
The Prison Economy
15 Nov 2025 10:58 PM ISTWhat began as a state function of justice has become a lucrative enterprise. The global prison-industrial complex now spans continents and...
Shadows of Statelessness
15 Nov 2025 2:02 AM ISTAs South Asian states head toward crucial elections, the Rohingya crisis resurfaces as a warning against bureaucratic overreach, political...
Fragile Balancing of Markets
7 Nov 2025 12:00 AM ISTIndia’s trade diplomacy stands at an inflexion point — squeezed between America, Europe and China — where economic resilience and strategic foresight...
America’s Asian Balancing Act
1 Nov 2025 7:29 PM ISTAmid a shifting Asian order, Trump’s visits to Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea were as much about optics as influence — an attempt to restore...













