(The End of Illusions: Why Overdependence on the West Became a Strategic Risk) For nearly three decades after economic liberalisation, India’s global trade orientation followed a...
Volodymyr Zelensky once sold the world a powerful story: a comedian-turned-reformer who would cleanse Ukraine of corruption and anchor the country firmly in the democratic West....
Not all wars are created equal—at least not in the Western news imagination. Some conflicts dominate front pages, prime-time debates, and social media timelines for months....
When the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was unveiled, it carried the weight of history and hope. It was the first comprehensive education policy of the...
When the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) was rolled out, it was presented as a long-overdue correction to an inequitable admissions system. Board marks, we were...
Bangladesh’s sudden fondness for Pakistan, abetted by China’s not-so-subtle elbowing of India, looks less like bold statecraft and more like a geopolitical trust fall—performed without checking...
If foreign policy came with a warranty, Pakistan would be filing a claim. After decades of cultivating influence in Afghanistan, Islamabad has discovered that the Taliban,...
Education reform in India is treated the way people treat New Year’s resolutions: declared with great seriousness, announced with fireworks, and quietly abandoned by February—except in...
South Asia doesn’t suffer from multiple Deep States. That would imply competition, borders, and paperwork. What it has is one Deep State, regionally networked, professionally mobile,...
Pakistan has always punched above its weight—not in economics, governance, or human development, but in the global sport of geopolitical scapegoating. And in this long Olympic...
