Cover Story

The Ideal Hero

Shashi Kiran BN

Ram as the sculptor of the Indian national character

Return to the Sacred City

Bibek Debroy

A portrait of Ayodhya in the time of Ram

Mass of Faith

Arvind Sharma

The significance of Dasharath's capital

Here Comes the Indian Armada

Rajeev Deshpande

India steps up its role in policing the Somalia-Arabian Sea zone using state-of-the-art information analytics and deploying missile ships and marine commandos

As the Middle East conflict spreads from Gaza to the Red Sea, there is hope yet for an optimistic outcome that can stabilise the region by bringing states closer together and countering the polarisation of recent years

Flexible Power

S Jaishankar

National interest will guide India unerringly if it does not get distracted by ideological reservations

The Globalisation of Bharat

Siddharth Singh

Resolute political leadership and a careful adherence to India’s goals have made all the difference to the country’s standing in the world with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the heart of this transformation as spelt out by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in his new book