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India, Nepal won’t talk borders. Prachanda has a different message for Modi
India has backed Prachanda, like it usually does traditional political parties such as the Nepali Congress, because it doesn’t fully trust Oli.
Manipur On Knife’s Edge After 4 Weeks Of Riots, Murder & Ethnic Cleansing, Years Of Progress At…
With more than 80 dead and about 35,000 fleeing home, recent violence in multi-ethnic Manipur, one of India’s most diverse states, has shattered years of tenuous coexistence and fractured bonds between majority Metei and tribal communities.…
Fact-Check: The Sengol Was Never Labelled ‘Walking Stick’, Nor Kept in Anand Bhawan
Examining the misrepresentations, half-truths and the journey of the sengol from Allahabad Museum to the new Parliament building. New Delhi: Contrary to reports that the sengol, installed in Parliament on Sunday, May 28, was “mis-labelled”…
Not much has changed, has it Nazrul?
The poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is synonymous with rebellion, revolt and refusal to bend to the rules. He rebelled against the injustices he saw all around him. The tyranny of the powerful, the suffering of the poor, religious hypocrisy,…
Neighbourhood issues
Deep in trouble at home on the political and economic front while suffering new hits on the security question, Pakistan has managed to remain engaged on some critical neighbourhood issues
G20 in Srinagar: The impossible validation
The marketing buzz words are plenty: New Kashmir, diplomacy hub, shining Kashmir-- all in an effort to portray a pleasant normalcy, with hyper security just out of view belying India’s ‘peace and prosperity’ campaign. Women in Kashmiri…
Imran’s ‘Pirni’: A weapon Pakistan Army has never faced before
There’s a rift within the Pakistan Army, the key player in this drama, itself on this – caused as much by Khan as by his third wife, Boushra Bibi
In Pakistan, the Military, the Mian, and the Messiah
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah’s 'either Imran Khan exists or we do,' best describes the threat posed by the political maverick
A long-drawn test for India’s diplomatic skills
Walking the tightrope seems to have paid off for India, but the multilateral challenges it faces will multiply
Towards a consensus finally?
It was no doubt a special Corps Commanders Conference (CCC) – being held soon after the horrifying and unprecedented arson and vandalism acts across Pakistan's major cities that not only randomly attacked civilian properties but…