For much of the late twentieth century, conflicts in the Middle East were treated as regional crises—tragic, destabilising, but ultimately contained. Today, that assumption is increasingly...
In an age of permanent crisis, diplomacy rarely makes headlines unless it carries the promise of conflict. Wars trend. Trade does not. Yet sometimes, the most...
Bangladesh has rarely witnessed a transfer of power that did not carry the weight of unfinished history. The arrival of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman marks not...
For months now, the India–US trade agreement has been spoken about in superlatives — the father of all deals, a reset of economic gravity, a signal...
India has climbed to become the world’s fourth largest economy — a headline repeated with justifiable pride. It is presented as proof of arrival: that the...
For nearly two decades, the India–European Union trade talks have drifted like a ship visible on the horizon—always present, always discussed, never truly docking. Diplomats shook...
The Thackeray surname once bent Maharashtra’s politics the way monsoon winds bend sugarcane—without negotiation, without resistance, through sheer force of inevitability. To be a Thackeray was...
Every generation falls in love with protest. Every nation eventually learns it cannot be governed by one. India’s political history is crowded with leaders who rose...
Bangladesh is living through a moment that looks, from afar, like a political transition—but feels, from within, like a reckoning postponed too long and unleashed too...
The story of education in India is inseparable from the story of social power—who had access to knowledge, who was excluded, and who decided what counted...
