World

Towards Pakistan 2.0?

Rahul Shivshankar

Delhi cannot merely wait and watch

Sri Lankan blasts unprecedented in scale, coordination: Ex-UN official and author

Ullekh NP

Gordon Weiss expects tensions between various communities to heighten in the island nation

Defend Assange to Save Journalism

Ullekh NP

If you don’t defend Assange now, your ability to know the truth in the future will be badly hit, says Dr Suelette Dreyfus, the co-author of Underground

Maldives: Leap of Freedom

Omkar Khandekar

As democracy returns to the Maldives, fresh hope has arisen in a country that had lapsed into dictatorship. Omkar Khandekar reports from the victor’s exile camp in Colombo

Global Warning

Aditya Iyer

The fabled land of sweet waters is on the verge of dehydration. Aditya Iyer in Cape Town captures the mood before Day Zero

Beirut of the Mind

Anchal Vohra

An iconic city retrieves its romance from the wreckage of war

ISIS: The End of an Idea

Anchal Vohra

The defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria should not be an occasion for global complacency. Anchal Vohra reports from Najaf and Baghdad

On the Road to Damascus

Anchal Vohra

The war may not be over yet but Syria begins to rebuild from the ruins. What’s there for India as China monopolises the reconstruction contracts? Anchal Vohra reports from Damascus

Will the military establishment, said to be in cahoots with the Supreme Court, ever restrain itself from imposing its power in tacit and blatant ways? Will the ruling elites ever be properly checked for wealth beyond apparent means?

The Fall of Nawaz Sharif

Raza Rumi

The story of Nawaz Sharif’s rise and fall is the story of contemporary Pakistan. For him, it matters little if it is the Army or the Court. History has moved in circles for him and yet another uncertain phase of his political career begins