T K Arun In 1994, when Kim Jong-il succeeded his father Kim Il-sung as the supreme leader of North Korea, ET’s cartoonist E P Unny drew the communist theoretician E M S Namboodiripad trying to hide his totally naked self…
Harsh V. Pant, Ambuj Sahu Foreign policy starts getting shaped by public opinion only when a democracy develops and matures. Such a political evolution sows the seeds for the democratization of foreign policy, where citizens actively participate in decision-making on…
Harsh V. Pant The last few days have been dramatic in the US polity with former President Donald Trump becoming the first US president in history to face a criminal trial after he was charged with 34 counts of falsifying…
TK Arun Access to emergency healthcare is vital, so what is wrong if the government of Rajasthan asks its privately run hospitals to provide such care? Why should hospitals and doctors have gone on strike, in protest against the state’s…
Harsh V. Pant, Premesha Saha The visit by the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, to India, in March 2023, during which he engaged with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on global and bilateral issues, focused on cooperation between the G-7…
T K Arun Now that the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Treasury and the Fed have all come together to salvage US banking once again, taking over two failing banks and making all depositors whole, and not just those small…