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America’s mistakes in the ‘forever war’

The U.S. misread the situation in Afghanistan, with the long war now leaving the Taliban at the height of their influence

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The road from Galwan, a year later

The world is hardly wired for cyber resilience

M.K. Narayanan Defending civilian targets and infrastructure against rising cyberattacks will stretch the capability of governments

Higher education in Kerala needs a new chapter

M.A. Oommen There are many tasks the LDF government must take note of in its focus to transform the State into a knowledge society

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America’s mistakes in the ‘forever war’

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The road from Galwan, a year later

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Higher education in Kerala needs a new chapter

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The world is hardly wired for cyber resilience

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Refocused vaccination campaigns are possible

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The rope of federalism and an unwanted tug-of-war

The dream of a borderless world

More than the biological virus, civilisation is experiencing a pandemic of barriers and barricades across the world

Strong-arm tactics weaken democracy

The Central government’s designs in West Bengal serve to undermine the structure of federalism

The promise and perils of digital justice delivery

Phase 3 of the e-Courts project can harness technology for service delivery without increasing surveillance risks

Bring genomic sequencing into the pandemic fight

Emerging variants, with evidence of higher transmissibility and immune escape, demand re-strategised responses

State interventions, Lakshadweep’s future

The archipelago’s integration into the mainstream should not lead to emotional alienation and physical damage

Connecting the dots to mitigate a third wave

The acronym ‘DOTS’ is a framework to understand the dynamics of the second wave, thereby helping mitigate the next

Embedded in Ambedkar’s historiography

An ardent Indophile’s poem on the life of Buddha stirred a rethink on conventional ideas of a philosophy

The red flags on the trail of the virus

China’s actions and the Wuhan lab connection do require closer scrutiny even if the U.S. may not find the smoking gun

Saving biodiversity, securing earth’s future

The National Biodiversity Mission can help mend the dysfunctional relationship between humanity and nature

Rural health care needs fixing, and now

A takeaway from the pandemic is that India needs to revisit and refurbish its health infrastructure in the rural areas

Close the vaccination gap, in global lockstep

Immunisation needs cooperation and is a prerequisite for lifting the restrictions holding back economies and freedoms

Adverse changes, federalism imperilled

There needs to be a federal coalition to preserve the idea of a plural India, in terms of culture and politics

Comments to avoid in long-standing ties

Some actions of political figures in India are detrimental to the consolidation of cordial bilateral ties

COVID diplomacy 2.0, a different order of tasks

Indian diplomacy will have to handle the fallout of the vaccine collapse and bio-research regulations

Elected autocrats, their pandemic responses

In the U.S., India and Brazil, messianic populism, polarisation and insularity have made the pandemic that much worse

Evidence of how little the judiciary has learnt

The Tarun Tejpal case judgment must not be allowed to become a precedent in derailing the workplace safety of women

A ‘reform wave’ Lakshadweep could do without

Though there is room for improvement, the archipelago does not need the measures announced by its administrator

Democracy at stake in Nepal

If the political Opposition resolves to fight back, it is likely that the new republic will gain in the long term

Culture, increasingly fractured and unplanned

Under the Central Vista project, the urban planning for a single, linked cultural district seems to have been tossed out

Nine-pin bowling aimed at free speech, privacy

By and large, the Information Technology Rules, 2021 go against landmark judicial precedents upholding key rights

The long shadow of political turmoil in Nepal

With uncertainty set to continue, India needs to remain actively engaged with all the political actors

The varying power of Hindutva beyond the heartland

Provincial politics resists Hindutva more strongly than Hindi belt caste politics, but there is nothing inevitable about it

One-state solution, the way forward in Palestine

The whole premise of the two-state solution is wrong, providing Israel the immunity to continue its ethnic cleansing

Slowing the pace of India’s mucormycosis threat

The experience of oncologists who rely on steroid-based protocols offers lessons in preventing and managing cases

A September exit, Afghanistan at the crossroads

While the U.S.’s withdrawal will end its ‘forever war’, peace depends on what future steps the country’s stakeholders take

Recalibrate growth, reprioritise expenditures

Protecting total expenditures at the budgeted level and mass vaccination are important in India’s pandemic situation

Deflating India’s COVID black market boom

An independent vigilance system and an administrative machinery capable of affirmative outputs are solutions

Trumping majoritarianism in the Hindi heartland

Regional assertion cannot work in Uttar Pradesh even if it may be a bulwark against the BJP’s expansionary plans

A gear shift to pull India back from tipping point

The ruling dispensation will need dexterity in handling the pandemic and managing the shifting democratic scenario

The fault line of poor health infrastructure

As and when India emerges on the other side of the pandemic, bolstering public care systems has to be the top priority

Interpretations which impede a just social order

The Maratha reservation case also shows that divesting States of the power to determine backwardness hits federalism

A collage of laws that leaves the worker out in the cold

The universalisation of social security remains an unfulfilled aspiration in the new code on social security

Tracking the pandemic’s rural march

States, especially in the north, are facing the brunt of the second wave, made worse by their poor health infrastructure

Counting the COVID toll in India

In order to understand the pandemic’s extent, a district-wise estimation is the best bet to arrive at a national total

The road from Ladakh is paved with disruptions

China-India ties are moving into a zone of problems even as New Delhi grapples with pandemic-related issues

It is getting from bad to worse for women workers

In the pandemic, women have borne a disproportionate burden of the severe disruptions to life and the economy

In COVID storm, the key principles driven home

Adherence to them would have mitigated the traumatic fallout of the pandemic in India

The crime of enforced disappearances must end

Cases especially in Asia are not decreasing, with domestic criminal law systems insufficient to deal with this atrocity

The science teaching and rationality India needs

The novel coronavirus crisis has fully revealed the price to be paid in the neglect of education and health

Forget ‘play’, the machine needs to be scrapped

The Centre must revisit its vaccine policy by procuring 100% doses which can then be equitably disbursed to States

Evaluate the Ladakh crisis, keep China at bay

A critical assessment of the stand-off offers New Delhi key lessons in managing the strategic competition with China

COVID mishandling foretold in the Budget

That the government did not come up with a detailed ‘COVID-19 Emergency’ Budget for the year 2021-22 is telling

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