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BRICS Comes of Age: Modi Pushes for Global Reform, Deadlines & Delivery
BRICS Comes of Age: Modi Pushes for Global Reform, Deadlines & Delivery
4 min read
At the New Delhi summit, Modi sought a bigger decision-making role for developing nations and a system to track BRICS commitments. Talks with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince widened the agenda to defence, AI ...
Ahimsa Pays
10 min read
Investors who screen out animal cruelty, addictive products and other forms of harm now have indices, funds and wealth platforms built around the principle
The Big Live-In Question
12 min read
As court judgments and state laws give living together legal recognition, unmarried couples are learning to navigate their new status
The Identity Project
12 min read
The push against illegal immigration from the High-Level Committee on Demographic Change is in step with the government’s mission led by Amit Shah for tech-driven border security and sacrosanct citize ...
The Act of One: Power has only added to the performance of Vijay
7 min read
When the chief minister is not regaling the Assembly with dialogues like “After Anna, MGR and NTR, it is Vijay,” he is selectively reading out the past to enlighten his young voters
The Inevitable Failure of Radical Islam
3 min read
9/11 changed for ever how nations behave when fear was added to the glossary of geopolitics. And America under George W Bush gave it a Biblical flavour by declaring war on evil.
The Mother of All Mega-Dams: India can no longer ignore the water bomb on its frontier
18 min read
The Medog project poses a challenge whose consequences could reach millions across Assam and Bangladesh. The strongest case against it is coming from China’s state-linked scientists. Instead of a dam ...
Rajma, Ragi & Statecraft: What India Is Serving the World at BRICS
5 min read
Banarasi dum aloo, millet pulao and barnyard millet kheer are doing their bit for summit diplomacy in New Delhi. Behind the spread lies a larger ambition: to showcase India’s regional kitchens, give t ...
Pathology of the Patriarch
7 min read
A senior cleric’s circular demanding restrictions on Kerala’s Muslim women stirs up controversy but Gen Z Muslims remain unimpressed