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20 years on, Sérgio de Mello’s Indian-origin friend opens up about his death in Baghdad, movie on him

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The UN top official’s death in the Aug 19, 2003 attack was preventable; Sergio the film is rubbish, says former UN veteran Mukesh Kapila

Pakistan army’s supremacy can be traced to how early rulers sought to overcome disadvantages with India: Ayesha Jalal

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In the first decade of independence, Pakistan’s top leadership solicited the assistance of the US and joined anti-Soviet security alliances

At Sword’s Point

Moinak Mitra

Fencing is warming up to small-town India

Crime and Punishment

Bibek Debroy

The proposed reforms to Indian criminal law break with a colonial legacy but do not go far enough

The Global Dividend

Harsh V Pant | Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy

A survey shows wide youth support for the Modi government’s foreign policy

D Gukesh: All the Right Moves

V Shoba

The making of India’s new chess champion

A Himalayan Faultline

Siddharth Singh

Reckless building of infrastructure has been blamed for the mess

Pakistani army will in due course have a pact with Imran Khan: Christine Fair

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The Pakistani armed forces will not want a coup as it will then be directly responsible for all the wrongdoing, notes the American military scholar

The Chinese Connection: The Plot Thickens

PR Ramesh | Siddharth Singh

The long trail of how China influences ideologically friendly media and activists in India—and a prominent figure in the nexus is a senior CPM leader

What Modi did emphasise was the Centre’s concerted efforts to connect the Northeast to the rest of India in every way. He cast the spotlight on Congress policies that stoked separatism and led to prolonged civilian distress by way of blockades and strikes