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The short bilateral meeting – a first one too – between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladeshi Interim Cabinet Chief Mohammed Yunus, held on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit, grabbed more eyeballs than the proceedings of the summit itself. This meeting was not just about two leaders of …

Can the Waqf Bill be another turning point in Indian history, just as the Shah Bano episode proved to be in the 1980s? Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of Shah Bano, which mandated that she be granted maintenance by her husband in accordance with the civil law of …

On April 2, US President Donald Trump threw a gauntlet to the world and the post-1945 US-constructed global order with across-the-board and significant country-specific tariffs. The tariff rates were higher than what was anticipated even by Trump’s key business supporters in the US. Markets reacted negatively worldwide, falling 10% in …

It is not a well-known yet an interesting fact that Vinod Khosla, often described as the hottest venture capitalist on the planet and a technology pioneer who was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, had relocated to Delhi, the city he grew up in, around the mid-1990s to be closer …

Mad about Cuba: A Malayali Revisits the Revolution by Ullekh N. P.; Pages 256; Price Rs 399 Growing up in Kannur in the north of Kerala, Ullekh starts with the story of his Cuba-infused childhood and continues with his trip in 2023 to the island nation, a trip he calls …

Saturday saw some of the biggest anti-government protests in Turkey since the arrest of opposition leader and mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, less than two weeks ago. Ozgur Ozel, the leader of Imamoglu’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), who organised Saturday’s demonstration in Istanbul, claimed on X that there were 2.2 …

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is undergoing significant ideological introspection. Since 2014, its journey has been marked by great success, along with some turmoil. It has been afflicted by what can be termed the “virus of unprecedented success”. Politics has brought the RSS not only power but also a unique …

The ghost of ‘Q’ mentioned in Bofors managing director Martin Ardbo’s private diary, which was relied upon by Chitra Subramainam, a Europe-based Indian journalist, to expose the bribery scandal in 1987-89, has resurfaced. Italian business executive Ottavio Quattrocchi is back in the news.  Three weeks after Subramaniam’s book, Boforsgate: A Journalist’s …

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak  Sangh (RSS) is celebrating 100 years since its inception—a remarkable journey for an organisation that was long considered untouchable and ridiculed by the intellectual class yet has not only survived, but thrived.  The Congress, with its glorious legacy of members like Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Tilak, and Bose, …

The visit of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Christopher Luxon, to India in March 2025 marked his first trip to the country as head of government. Accompanied by one of the largest delegations ever to travel with a New Zealand prime minister (including ministers, senior business leaders, a group …