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A water meter stands on a dry wetland at the Donana natural park, southwest Spain

A climate change survival guide to act on

Navroz K. Dubash,Parth Bhatia

‘The Gulf or the larger West Asia is no longer an exclusive American sphere of influence’

The limits of American power in West Asia

‘What merit completely fails to account for are the starting points, the trajectories, the social networks, the affluence, the prejudices, hardships and innumerable other factors that shape us’

Discrimination in the IITs is something to write about

Rajesh Golani ,Rajendran Narayanan

‘Some organisations are oblivious to the fact that their silences and statements on contemporary issues give the impression that they live in a medieval bubble’

Religious absolutism undermining the autonomy of the Indian Muslim

A. Faizur Rahman

A file photo of Pangong Lake. In the last three years, through patient negotiation, India and China have managed to disengage in four of the six points — Pangong Tso is one of them.

Slow steps to India-China border tranquillity

An official team from Bihar, officials from Tamil Nadu and the police in a meeting with migrant workers

The forecast after a fake news campaign in Tamil Nadu

Manuraj Shunmugasundaram

‘The intellectual history of colonialism is littered with many a wilful cause of more recent conflict’

The colonial past is still relevant

‘Brahmapuram defines our treatment of the earth’

Brahmapuram as a policy game-changer for Kerala

Pulapre Balakrishnan

‘India will need to engage with China in West Asia, where the two countries have shared interests’ Picture is of the meeting in Beijing

In Saudi-Iranian ‘normalisation’, new challenges emerge in West Asia

‘Data sovereignty has become an increasingly important issue’

A chance for India to shape a data governance regime

Ingrid Schneider ,Krishna Ravi Srinivas

‘China is clearly not Ukraine, or for that matter Russia, and Asia is not Europe’

Using Ukraine as a bellwether is a path to tragedy

‘Unlike Israel, Hungary and Turkey, where resistance to the populist right wing has come from the educated middle classes, the Indian case is peculiar’

The unchallenged run of majoritarian encroachments

At the BBC’s office, in Mumbai

Media raids and breaking the silence on press freedom

AAP leader Manish Sisodia is taken to CBI headquarters in New Delhi on February 27, 2023.

To arrest or not to arrest is the question