A More Divided World: Can Diplomacy Still Find Common Ground?
International politics is becoming increasingly complicated as countries face geopolitical competition, economic uncertainty, security concerns and disagreements over trade and technology. Major powers are pursuing their own strategic interests while…
Today is National Science Day: India’s scientific renaissance: From historic legacy to global leadership
At the recent international conference on Artificial Intelligence held in New Delhi, heads of state from across the world, CEOs of multi-national companies and leading technology experts expressed strong optimism about the role India is poised to play in shaping the future of science, technology, and innovation. As Artificial Intelligence increasingly defines global competitiveness, India’s...
Adelaide Writers Week crisis: former Adelaide Festival leaders call on Board to reinstate Randa Abdel-Fattah
As reported by ArtsHub yesterday, more than 40 writers and intellectuals are now boycotting Writers Week in protest at the Board’s decision, leaving the program in tatters. This morning (10 January), an open letter written by 11 former Adelaide Festival leaders who support the reinstatement of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah to the Adelaide Writers Week program, was sent...
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Letters should be limited to about 200 words and should be sent along with your full name, address and a phone number for verification if necessary. Anonymous letters will not be published. Only your name and city where you live will be published with your comments. Letters should be sent only to The Oklahoman, and...
Deterioration Of China’s Geopolitical Environment Limits Its Strategic Initiative – Analysis
In recent years, particularly between 2024 and 2025, China has faced a significant tightening of its peripheral security and geopolitical environment, unlike anything seen since the Cold War. The major power competition in the Asia-Pacific region has become fully structured, with the security policies of the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India accelerating...
Climate change and news audiences report 2025: Analysis of news use and attitudes in eight countries
As the world confronts a widening gap between intensifying climate impacts and the slow pace of action to tackle the crisis,1 this report, now in its fourth edition, continues to examine how people engage with climate change news and information. This analysis draws on four years of comparable data collected in the same eight countries: Brazil,...
Political corruption and shifting public gaze typify Indian ‘democracy’
As the dust settles on a tumultuous year for South Asia, India stands as an island of relative political stability. Yet, beneath macroeconomic optimism and geostrategic posturing, an old, persistent malaise continues to corrode the structural integrity of the republic: political corruption. For decades, the Indian voter’s relationship with corruption was defined by a cynical fatalism—a belief...
India Was Optimistic About Its Relationship with the US. Trump Changed Things
India entered 2025 optimistic about what a second Donald Trump presidency would bring for the relationship between the two nations. Public opinion in India was far more positive about Trump’s return to the White House than in many American partner and ally countries, with one survey conducted by the European Council on Foreign Relations finding 75 percent...
India’s Future Strategic Choices: Complications of Mass
Leading up to the 2023 G20 summit in New Delhi, the Indian government put up billboards of Prime Minister Narendra Modi across the city. By one count, there were almost 1,000 signs and banners in the 12-kilometer stretch between the airport and U.S. President Joe Biden’s hotel highlighting India’s accomplishments, aspirations, and vision under Modi’s...
India fifth largest economy: Canada PM Mark Carney argues in favour of India’s inclusion in G7 summit
Carney’s comments came after some of his political opponents in Canada criticised him for inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit...
A $5 trillion economy, but for whom?
While India is set to become the third largest economy in the world in 2028, 80 crore Indians will still be receiving free foodgrains to stave off hunger...
Amid dismal economic scenario, PM Modi meets CEOs for feedback
Amid consistently dismal news on the economic front, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been, since the last week of December, engaged in a series of meetings with business leaders, entrepreneurs and tech czars on how to address sector specific and macro economic issues. According to top sources in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the idea...
Kerala economy records ‘strong’ 6.19% real growth in 2024-25, says Economic Review
Economic Review 2025 tabled in Kerala Assembly highlights the need for ‘resilient, innovative and forward-looking financial strategies’ to tackle prevailing fiscal challenges...
Jerry Pinto’s tribute to R. Parthasarathy and how this poet’s influential voice receded from literary memory
Rajagopal Parthasarathy, who passed away on March 7, in Saratoga Springs, New York, seems to have faded from the poetic consciousness of my generation. While his contemporaries, Adil Jussawalla and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, for instance, or even A.K. Ramanujan, seem to have kept pace with us, Partha, as his friends called him, was flattened early...
Review of Sandip Roy’s Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal
In Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal, biographer Sandip Roy explores the life and times of Chapal Bhaduri, the last great female impersonator of Bengali jatra. He opens with a rigorous introduction that establishes a clear interpretative frame. This is then gradually neutralised by a first-person voice presented as Chapal’s own, though clearly mediated and shaped by an archivist’s...
Life in the Himalaya | Review of Anuradha Roy’s “Called by the Hills”
In Julian Barnes’ 2011 novel, The Sense of an Ending, the protagonist asks, “This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents — were they the stuff of Literature?” While working on a memoir, a writer may wonder if she must exaggerate her life, romanticise it,...
Political poker: On the Puducherry Assembly election, the political players
Puducherry and political confusion go together. This has been reinforced in the manner in which the major political players have gone through the seat sharing process. Though Puducherry’s first NDA government, led by the AINRC and the BJP, has been able to complete its five-year term, the allies have struggled to reach an electoral understanding....
Cowardly bully: On Donald Trump and the Iran war
Donald Trump’s decision to postpone attacks on Iran’s power plants, 36 hours after issuing a 48-hour ultimatum to Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, is the clearest sign yet that the war is not going according to his plan. Over the past week, Mr. Trump has declared victory, claiming that U.S. and Israeli strikes...
Letters to The Editor
The sudden ‘pause’ in the West Asia conflict offers a much-needed, though uncertain, reprieve amid the prolonged U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran (Front page, March 24). The aimless military aggression has also inflicted widespread devastation in the Gulf region. There has also been a frequent shifting of goalposts by the United States. With the unilateral announcement...
India must aim to become a global aviation hub
India stands on the cusp of an aviation revolution. As the world’s third-largest domestic aviation market and projected to become the third largest globally by 2030, the potential for growth is immense. Yet much of the value generated by Indian passenger traffic bypasses the national economy, flowing instead into the sophisticated ecosystems of Dubai (DXB),...
A national water vision for Viksit Bharat
India is already approaching the threshold of water stress. The paradox is stark: a country endowed with major river systems is confronting intensifying scarcity, conflict, and ecological stress. The explanation lies not in the lack of water but in how it is governed. Water in India refuses to obey political boundaries. Rivers traverse States; groundwater...
Hazy signals from Iran war
If the objectives of starting the Iran war had been clear there would not have been a problem in deciphering the messages coming out of the US. After joining hands with Israel and bombing nuclear facilities in Iran on February 28, Washington shifted its sights to regime change once Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated and...
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A More Divided World: Can Diplomacy Still Find Common Ground?
International politics is becoming increasingly complicated as countries face geopolitical competition, economic uncertainty, security concerns and disagreements over trade and technology. Major powers are pursuing their own strategic interests while…
India’s Changing Global Role: Why Strategic Independence Matters More Than Ever
India’s growing influence in global affairs raises an important question: how should the country balance relationships with major powers while protecting its own strategic interests? India increasingly works with the…
India’s research retraction surge sparks call for reform
In the expansion of India’s scientific footprint lies an uncomfortable truth: the country now ranks third globally for life science research papers retracted from the record, according to a comprehensive…
Indian Science and Technology landscape: a leap for a better future
India produces a large quantity of scientific research, ranking 4th globally in terms of total research publications in 2020 according to Elsevier SciVal and having the 9th largest number of…
