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Death on the Nile

Egypt’s date with democracy still looks faint on the horizon

The Remembered Pain

Its apartheid past looms over South Africa as a perpetual reminder even as it gets ready to lead the ‘African decade’

Manmohan’s Foreign Policy Twist

As rapid developments reshape the world economy and India’s neighbourhood, the PM rushes to rebalance relationships

Somalia’s Nowhere People

They have been let into the country but do not have permission to make a living here

The Samurai Spirit

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

(Fading) Superpower Games

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?

The Death of Counterculture

Even ten years after 9/11, American popular culture continues to mimic the hollow piety of the political establishment. Granted the honourable exceptions

The Changing Colour of Red

A clutch of apparently disconnected events is pointing at deep churn at the top in China

China Plumbs Indian Depths

India’s northern neighbour has won a seabed exploration bid in the Indian Ocean. Is this part of a grand design to encircle us?

The Israeli Summer

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?

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