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Bordered by China to the east and Pakistan to the west, Ladakh holds immense strategic value for India. Yet, more than five years after its separation from Jammu & Kashmir in 2019, Ladakh’s political future remains unclear. The promise of better governance and stronger representation...

“God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform,” so goes a hymn I read in school. Or perhaps it was a line in P.G. Wodehouse, I forget which. But no matter, the point is that miracles usually happen outside of the knowledge of us...

Rajesh Agrawal, who will soon become Commerce Secretary, is in charge of India’s trade talks with the United States, which have resumed. Agrawal, an IAS officer from the 1994 batch, is accustomed to difficult negotiations. With a career that straddles trade promotion, exports, and policy...

I t was a significant moment in the history of the struggle of Palestinian people to get a state of their own, when French President Emmanuel Macron officially recognised the Palestinian state at the United Nations on 22 September. Alongside France, which co-convened the meeting...

What has been unofficial for years is now official. Saudi Arabia’s landmark mutual defence pact with Pakistan signed on 17 September could come with double benefits for Pakistan. It will greatly strengthen Islamabad and help it play a major role in the geopolitical strategies planned...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday, 20 September, once again asserted that it was he who stopped the four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan in May through trade. Since 10 May, when Trump announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to...

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is celebrating its centenary and its epic successes in the cultural and, especially, political field. Readers who are familiar with the organisation, the font of Hindutva ideology, but unclear about what it specifically stands for might benefit from this column. The...

The gleaming new Kartavya Bhavan-3, showcased as the crown jewel of the Central Vista project, is already sparking discontent among the very babus meant to occupy it. The Central Secretariat Service (CSS) Forum, representing over 13,000 officials, has written to the Prime Minister’s Office and...

More than half a million people marched along the streets of London 13 September protesting against immigration. This was one of the country’s biggest Right-wing demonstrations ever, with some protesters clashing with the police and wounding at least 26 officers. Now contrast this with the...

  I t is the sign of the times, transcending geographical frontiers, that democracy is being grotesquely distorted, giving a raw deal to the ordinary citizens for whom this form of government was supposed to be the best conceived as of now. The ruling class...