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The roots of a decentred international order

In the post-pandemic period, developing economies should rise to meet the U.S.-led liberal hegemonic world order

On the trail of the second wave’s dynamics

T. Jacob John M.S. Seshadri

A multipolarity, scripted by the middle powers

Talmiz Ahmad Japan, Iran, Turkey and India are well set to shape the emerging world order

Why less may be more for India and China

Ananth Krishnan A conversation driven by hard talk and finding shared interests, even if modest ones, may be amply rewarding

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Nuclear deterrence is overrated

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Embers that refuse to die

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A charter for the CBI

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Where have all the women gone?

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Too close for comfort

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Fleeing the light

Leaving no stone unturned

The draft National Conservation Policy’s exclusive focus on the preservation of ASI monuments is akin to a project solely to protect the tiger without factoring in the other elements in an ecosystem

What went wrong with India’s TB control

The story today is a far cry from the 1960s, when we led the developing countries’ fight against the disease

The rediscovery of India

The country today needs to reinvent itself through the ideals and dreams that drove the Independence movement

Hold the Vajpayee-Manmohan line

It is incumbent upon the Indian political leadership to help create and sustain a constituency for peace and sanity in Pakistan

A settlement long overdue

The ratification of the Indo-Bangladesh land boundary agreement will reduce the difficulties in administering border enclaves, and improve the conditions of those living there

Nip this in the bud

Genetically modified crops, whose ecological effects are irreversible, could become a mainstay of Indian agriculture thanks to collusion between the government and the biotech industry

The sand management challenge

As the operations of organised gangs that seek to make a killing out of the insatiable demand for sand are in focus, environmental concerns posed by indiscriminate mining grow. Nitin Sethi discusses the imperatives.

Crisis looms on the horizon

With the RBI refusing to lower interest rates, foreign investors have lost confidence in the government, and speculation on the rupee has mounted

Adding fuel to the fire

The Centre has sought to curb Nagaland’s constitutional right to regulate petroleum and natural gas extraction, ignoring its special status under Article 371A

For a more inclusive ballot

While denying voting rights to undertrials contradicts the principle that a person is innocent until proved guilty, disenfranchising convicts will aggravate their alienation from society

Parliamentary supremacy under attack

The executive’s attempts to circumvent the legislature and the growing influence of money power in deciding elections have eroded people’s legitimate aspirations

Crude and not sweet at all

Far from being automatic, the energy security from India’s overseas oil assets is only as good as the contracts and joint ventures that govern them

Understanding the poverty line

What it signifies, what it does not tell us and what it will definitely not be used for

Waiting for the stars

Indian athletics lacks iconic figures like Milkha Singh, P.T. Usha and Anju Bobby George, and is marred by doping scandals today. It will take a miracle to improve national performance at the Moscow World Championships.

The drift to a national security state

The obsession with new forces, more surveillance, and layer upon layer of personnel and equipment will sink the India we cherish

Great power and greater responsibility

The welfare state has made governance a one-way street, offering citizens a sense of entitlement without any commitment to nation-building

From the granary to the plate

Despite its many flaws, the food security bill is an opportunity to end the leakages from the PDS and prevent wastage of public resources

A State that must fulfil a higher purpose

The creation of Telangana will have meaning only if it creates a new language of inclusive politics, or else it will merely amount to another demarcation on the map

The dishonesty in counting the poor

The Planning Commission’s spurious method shows a decline in poverty because it has continuously lowered the measuring standard

A mountain strike corps is not the only option

Instead of pouring money into raising a force that can hardly address the Indian Army’s drawbacks at the border, our decision makers should have focussed on addressing China’s weaknesses in the Indian Ocean

The deep water crisis

Hard-working rig-operators are providing a real response to a very real demand from farmers, but with grave consequences for groundwater supplies

What Morsy did not learn from Erdogan

Unlike the Turkish Prime Minister, who waited patiently to implement his Islamist agenda and sideline the army, the ousted Egyptian President rushed to impose the Brotherhood’s programme on an unwilling nation

What Pathribal means for India

The Supreme Court’s timidity in dealing with the law on prior sanction for prosecuting public servants has offered protection to the murderous and the corrupt

The unempowered Asian

Despite overtaking Japan as the third largest economy, India has lost its leadership role in the continent because, unlike its eastern neighbours, it has ignored its poor

Of politicians and some verdicts

Court rulings on freebies, elections and caste-based rallies, and the CIC order on political parties are a beginning towards cleansing politics but whether they can achieve the desired result is debatable

What Hindus can and should be proud of

Those who care for the future of the religion should valorise the work of reformers who rid an ancient, ossified faith of its divisions, prejudices, and closed-mindedness

Demanding transparency in political finance

Building on the work by RTI activists, India needs to set up a mechanism that can make for accountability on the sources and utilisation of party funds

Crazy love in Banaras

Is Raanjhanaa the tale of an irrational, impassioned, obsessive lover, or thinly disguised male supremacist storytelling?

Not losing it in paradise

Kashmir need not be Manmohan Singh’s last failure if he can summon the will to take the bold initiatives he promised early in his tenure

Is the United Nations racist?

Western countries occupy almost all powerful and big-budget posts in the organisation, and sadly developing countries, despite their numbers, have allowed the bias to persist

Turning garbage into gas

While incineration endangers lives, gasification will produce transport fuel that can meet half of India’s consumption needs

‘No’ to peeping Sams

The challenge of cybersecurity lies in protecting people without entering their private space or making ‘national security’ an excuse to trample on their freedoms

Crosscurrents in India-U.S. ties

The growing convergence of views on many issues is not enough to iron out the divergence arising from different priorities, as Secretary Kerry’s recent visit proved

Live wire in the nationalist movement

From being a means of enforcing colonial authority to a tool that helped the freedom struggle, the telegraph played a role in India’s history

Paying the price

The much-awaited Drug (Prices Control) Order 2013 has disappointed millions of patients, as it lacks a fair formula to fix the price ceiling and leaves important drug classes out of regulation. The result: High out-of-pocket spending on medicines will continue

Living in an extreme world

There is compelling evidence to show that many weather-related disasters are not chance occurrences but are a result of human activities that have altered our atmosphere

Making bankers pay for failed gambles

The RBI should adopt some of the bold and far-reaching proposals made by a British parliamentary panel for making banks and boards accountable

When expedience trumps expertise

Uttarakhand reiterates that our rulers have contemptuous disregard for the advice of the best scientists and would rather listen to contractors and builders to whom they are beholden for funds

Reinventing the autonomy wheel

An independent CBI is neither a pre-condition nor guarantee of professionalism. It may instead lead to a police raj

The risks of sweeping the floor

A Congress politician’s sycophancy has reinforced the stigma, surrender and subordination inherent in the act of cleaning

A wrong turn on energy

The Indian government’s decision to double natural gas prices from April 2014 ostensibly to incentivise domestic gas production may render nuclear

Khaki death squads

Extraordinarily, more than a dozen senior police officers in Gujarat are in jail or facing prosecution, in connection with cold-blooded murders dressed up as encounter deaths. Darshan Desai traces the hand of politics in the extrajudicial killings.

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