Opinion

Stephen Holmes A senior US State Department official recently summarised the Trump administration’s approach to regime change in three words: “decapitate and delegate.” Remove an intransigent leader, weaken the regime through airstrikes, sanctions, and proxies, then compel a successor to strike a transactional bargain –...

Melvin Durai After the United States and Israel launched their military offensive against Iran, dropping hundreds of bombs and killing the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, I watched intently as political commentators on American TV shared their opinions on whether the attack was necessary....

Dhurjati Mukherjee In the wake of the Middle East crisis, the need for acceleration of green energy in India assumes great significance, more so because the country has committed to net-zero emissions by 2070. Let’s start with the current oil crisis. The Strait of Hormuz...

Jagdish Rattanani Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is a much-despised figure in many parts of the world, with an arrest warrant against him from the UN-backed International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since he went to war in response to...

India’s energy policy cannot be dictated by Eurocentric carbon targets designed for wealthy, post-industrial economies. The recent conflict involving Iran and Israel has already exposed India’s energy vulnerability. How long can India keep its kitchens burning and its trucks moving if global supplies are disrupted?...

As the US-Israeli war with Iran escalates, the infrastructure and transit routes that sustain global energy flows are increasingly drawing fire, rattling financial markets. But the biggest risk is not necessarily a sustained loss of the physical supply of oil. It is the tightly integrated...

By Santosh Kumar Mohapatra As the world observes International Women’s Day each year, celebration must be accompanied by reflection. Have the lives of women truly become safer, freer, and more dignified? Or are our commemorations louder than our commitment? According to the World Health Organization,...

By Melvin Durai The seven adults in the Intermediate Level English class at the Newcomer Center in Minneapolis, US, had just taken their seats when the instructor, Raj Parambola, wrote a single word on the blackboard: IDIOM. “Today we are going to talk about idioms,”...

By Vappala Balachandran There are several enigmas surrounding the present US-Israel war against Iran, answers of which are still not clear. Is it, as economist and public policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs says, in a video now viral, an American attempt “to continue or maintain, or...

By Daron Acemoglu Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s former dictator, won the big prize in the country’s national lottery in 2000. And he won for a simple reason: because he could. Once you destroy institutions constraining your power, as Mugabe did during his 37-year reign, you can...