The lesson from Trump’s tariff wars is that while multipolarity may not be dead yet, it is time for India to pursue the more ambitious goal of becoming a pole on its own strength

No one can beat Pakistan’s elites in constructing alternate realities, but General Munir may do well

Hopeless in Gaza | The Lost Star

What sense does a meat ban on Independence Day make?

A secular versus Hindutva politics

The Malegaon verdict punctures the Hindu-terror narrative

If not the US, whom can India partner?

With over 12,000 oral histories, the 1947 partition archive is using storytelling to mend the scars of one of the most traumatic episodes that the subcontinent experienced

As India rises in the new world with self-confidence, it should not be dominated by the old Western institutions. India should assuage today's global anxiety by promoting its distinct ideas

From the massacres in Noakhali in 1946 to the ongoing revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, the Hindu part of the Indian identity has been seen as a threat. But it is no longer taboo to say there should be an element of faith in Indianness