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,...
“CUET patterns, subject limits, and participating universities are notified annually by the National Testing Agency and may change from year to year.” What Is CUET and...
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...
In South Asia, cinema has always been the fastest way to trigger a diplomatic mood swing. One week, actors are exchanging cross-border compliments; the next, nationalists...
Hezbollah: From Militant Birth to Political Power — Lebanon’s Paradox and the Region’s Pressure Point Few forces have shaped modern Lebanon — and unsettled the Middle...
IDEOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS: THE MAKING OF THE RSS WORLDVIEW The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was not born as an outgrowth of politics but as a response...
In the turbulent theatre of the Middle East, few relationships have undergone a transformation as dramatic and consequential as that between Iran and Israel. What today...
When Vladimir Putin stepped onto Indian soil for a full-scale state visit, the world waited for the usual Western spectacle — the stern statements, podium anger,...
