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…
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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 Anonymous letters will not be published.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...
Review of Krishnamurthy Subramanian’s India@100 — Envisioning Tomorrow’s Economic Powerhouse: Dreams, with a catch
A former chief economic adviser explores how India can become a $55 trillion economy, but does not go far enough...
Why Sustainable Cities Are the Future of Urban India
India’s cities are expanding at an unprecedented rate. This rapid growth brings opportunities, but it also places immense pressure on our resources and environment. The traditional model of urban expansion is no longer viable. A new approach is necessary for a healthy and prosperous future. Sustainable living in India is this new approach. It is not just...
India’s Digital Growth Needs Strong Data Privacy Laws
India is rapidly becoming a digital-first economy, but the pace of data protection policies has not kept up. While millions rely on online platforms for banking, shopping, and communication, concerns around data misuse continue to grow. Stronger enforcement and transparency from tech companies are essential to build long-term trust....
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,...
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...
Editorial. Plane truths
The Centre is justified in protecting passenger interests, by mandating that airlines make available at least 60 per cent of flight seats ‘free’ — that is, with no add-ons to the ticket price. The additional charges for such premium seats — which are typically towards the front of the aircraft or alongside windows and the...
Is the private credit boom going bust?
A defining feature of financial markets is that the most important information is often held by those least likely to reveal it. The system’s inner workings are invisible to outside observers — which makes it all the more striking when leading Wall Street executives start sounding the alarm. In October, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon...
Streamline physical security to enable data center growth in the era of AI
AI is the new space race for data centers, and consistency at speed is the rocket fuel that colocation and hyperscale providers need to reach orbit. Everything you already know about physical security still applies but it won’t matter unless you have the right plan and partnerships in place to scale without sacrificing quality. Growth...
A static electricity mystery comes to the surface
DENVER — Static electricity is a touchy subject. Touch or rub two materials together, and they can exchange electric charge. But the details behind the phenomenon of static electricity are poorly understood. Now, scientists have identified a hidden factor at play. A thin veneer of carbon-rich molecules alters how identical materials exchange charge, scientists report in...
The Whooping Crane Recovery Shows What We Stand to Lose
I probably wouldn’t have made the drive to Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in North Alabama back in January if I hadn’t gotten an email bearing this subject line: “Whooping Cranes.” The message came from Nicole Mashburn, a board member of the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge Association and the friend of a friend. Out of abject necessity,...
European stocks tumble 2% as Iran war intensifies; miners lead losses
LONDON — European stocks slumped on Thursday as the Iran war escalated further following attacks on Iranian and Qatari energy infrastructure. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down more than 2% as of 10:25 a.m. in London (6:25 a.m. ET), with all major bourses in negative territory and all sectors except for oil and gas trading...
Voices & Opinion
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…
