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Fencing the frontiers
16 March 2024 10:04 PM ISTThe government’s decision to fence the Indo-Myanmar border and scrap the Free Movement Regime is indicative of a shift in focus from north-western...
Trade in transition
9 March 2024 9:10 PM ISTAmid exponential increase in regional trade agreements — contextualised by China’s ascent, European Union’s economic decline, and US’ reluctance...
Malicious marionettism
24 Feb 2024 9:28 PM ISTPost-election political developments in Pakistan reflect a scenario where the military dispensation controls the making and functioning of the...
Charting the carbon course
17 Feb 2024 9:06 PM ISTBeing the world’s third-largest carbon emitter, India should institute strategically planned carbon credit trading regulations to ward off the...
Alliances & antagonisms
3 Feb 2024 9:40 PM ISTAs the expansion of BRICS heralds the emergence of a new multipolar world challenging the Western hegemony, the ‘West-aligned’ India needs to tread...
A manufactured realignment
27 Jan 2024 11:50 PM ISTAs India has decisively tilted towards the United States, China is trying to ‘balance this tilt’ by trying to wean away India’s trusted neighbours, a...
Democracy in disarray?
6 Jan 2024 8:38 PM ISTAs economically rising Bangladesh goes for its 12th National Assembly polls without the principal opposition in fray, questions galore on its...
Shifting dynamics
2 Jan 2024 6:27 PM ISTThe conviction of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered a parallel banking system with foreign connections, will strengthen Sheikh Hasina’s...
Paradoxical deprivation
30 Dec 2023 8:21 PM ISTAlthough the green and white revolutions spurred sumptuous growth in production and export of food items, per capita availability of ‘proper’ food...
Castles on quicksand
26 Dec 2023 8:22 PM ISTAmid a dearth of employment opportunities and dismally performing labour-intensive manufacturing sector, the government is apparently pushing for a...
Echoes of an ebb
23 Dec 2023 9:24 PM ISTThe turbulent trail of democracy in Myanmar — a country that has very similar diversity, history and trajectory to that of India — not only presents...
Harmonising horizons
12 Dec 2023 6:15 PM ISTAs immediate neighbours, India and China need to actively engage with each other in the maritime domain to ensure a peaceful and prosperous world