This article is carried by BloombergQuint… Link uploaded here… Arguments in this essay were first put forth in a commentary written for the Journal of Public Policy, a Cambridge University Press Journal, Cambridge University. There is a solar flare of deep inter-state conflict, conquest, and siege erupting all over the…

Leaving too much in the perceptive world of Oppenheimer’s mind, Nolan’s masterpiece in its adapted screenplay scores high on cinematic achievement but low on exhibiting the feelings of Oppenheimer’s heart, or the consequences of his actions Oppenheimer, a film adapted from the book American Prometheus, involving more than twenty-five years…

There is a clear message emerging for the Indian National Congress and the Gandhis: Decentralize Electoral Management and Planning to Local Leaders, Empower Grassroot Leadership, Stay Away from Campaigning, and Promise a ‘Socially-Cohesive Welfare-Driven’ Alternative to the BJP’s Divisive Politics…* A thumping Congress victory in the state assembly elections of…

A lot’s been said over in the past week by political commentators on the possible ramifications of the juridical sentencing of Rahul Gandhi that led to his disqualification as an MP. Two excellent pieces penned down recently by Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Christopher Jaffrelot warrant closer look. Mehta argues how…

This article is written for a news platform. Published link will be accessible from here. The nature of widespread attention evoked across the financial, business, and political landscape from the Hindenburg Report-Adani Enterprises faceoff offers a telling tale about the ‘volatile’ state of big private capital-government relationship in India. By…

*This article is due to be published in print. Published Link will be uploaded here.. A lot is being said on India’s position in the UN on the Ukraine-Russia crisis. The position, thus far, has been broadly of ‘abstention’ and ‘silence’. The Indian Government has also failed to explain the…

*This article is written for a digital news platform.. The published link shall be accessible from here For those wondering, if there are any sub-regional or national lessons for South Asian nations to be drawn out from Afghanistan’s own condition- after the US military pulled out and the Taliban took…

*This is written for The Wire and the published link is accessible from here.. There was something striking in a recent televised address made by US President Joe Biden to his nation -and the world, responding to the chaotic situation and unrest in Afghanistan after the United States announced a…

*This is written for The Wire and the published link is accessible from here.. The electoral success of Mamata Banerjee’s TMC in West Bengal and Pinarayi Vijayan’s LDF in Kerala mark a critical junction in the state of Indian politics today. Not only have both of these grassroot leaders, belonging…