CUET and the Centralization of College Admissions: Who Really Wins?
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...
Manish Kumar
Playing All Sides, Pleasing None: Bangladesh’s Dangerous Dance with Pakistan and China.
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...
Strategic Depth, Shallow Trust: How Pakistan Lost the Taliban—and Washington and Beijing Lost the Plot.
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,...
Why Education Reform in India Is Always Urgent—and Always Incomplete.
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...
One Deep State to Rule Them All: How South Asia’s ‘Stability’ Industry Keeps Democracy on a Short Leash.
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 EXPLAINED: A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS. (With Teacher’s Guidance Notes and FAQ’S Supplement for Teacher’s)
“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...
Imran Khan: Pakistan’s Favourite Scapegoat in a U.S.–China Tug-of-War Masquerading as Democracy.
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...
‘Dhurandhar’: The Spy Flick That’s Robbing Pakistan’s Establishment of REM Sleep.
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...
Militancy Born: The Rise and Expansion of Houthi, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
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...
RSS: From Roots to 2047—The Journey, The Ideology, The Future
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...