Its apartheid past looms over South Africa as a perpetual reminder even as it gets ready to lead the ‘African decade’
As rapid developments reshape the world economy and India’s neighbourhood, the PM rushes to rebalance relationships
They have been let into the country but do not have permission to make a living here
A tragedy of gigantic proportions can also be an inflexion point for a country with an innate urge to bounce back. So it could be for Japan
America has taken upon itself this last decade to reshape the world in its own disfigured image. Will it spend the next decade recoiling from the result?
Even ten years after 9/11, American popular culture continues to mimic the hollow piety of the political establishment. Granted the honourable exceptions
A clutch of apparently disconnected events is pointing at deep churn at the top in China
India’s northern neighbour has won a seabed exploration bid in the Indian Ocean. Is this part of a grand design to encircle us?
After the bullets and blood of the Arab Spring, The Israeli Summer seems almost fluffy, but the protestors are dead serious. So what is this all about?