Essays

The Silence Breakers of Kashmir

Ashish Sharma

They were ostracised as informers and denied the dignity of burying their dead in village cemeteries. These surviving family members of victims of terror are finally speaking up and an attentive state is listening to their stories

Israel Is Changing Its Mind

Anat Bernstein-Reich

Netanyahu’s government is hanging by a thread as evidence mounts that he deliberately prolonged the war in Gaza

Soul Mountain

Nitin A Gokhale

The Kailash Mansarovar Yatra is both a gruelling adventure and an enriching spiritual journey

Breakdown In Britain

Roderick Matthews

Keir Starmer is withering away and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is poised to inherit the mantle of the Right

The Reckoning In Tehran

Deepika Saraswat

Wartime national solidarity is not a resurgence of support for the Islamic Republic

The War of the Four Seas

MJ Akbar

The geography from Ukraine to Aden is infectious because smaller fires can easily join the conflagration

A Breach Dhaka Cannot Afford

Syed Badrul Ahsan

As Sheikh Hasina is indicted and relations between Bangladesh and India deteriorate, the army is losing its patience with Muhammad Yunus

Partners Against Terror

Anat Bernstein-Reich

While Operation Sindoor’s precision strikes showed convergence of Indian and Israeli strategies, Pakistan’s tactics mirrored those of Hamas and Hezbollah