Nilanjan Banik and Guido Cozzi In-State of the Union address, President Joe Biden made it clear that the US is not planning to send troops to Ukraine. On earlier occasions, Bill Clinton sent troops to Yugoslavia; George W. Bush to…
Vanessa Peter and Tikender Singh Panwar The Tamil Nadu government envisions responsive city governance to mitigate poverty and ensure a decent quality of life for all by adopting an inclusive, participatory, transparent and accountable approach to urban development.What kind of urban Tamil…
Harsh V Pant When the Ukraine crisis hit the headlines a few months ago, conventional wisdom suggested that whichever way the situation evolved, China would be its biggest beneficiary. Since the start of covid, China’s global image had gone for…
Gurinder Kaur On 28 February 2022, the second installment of the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), “Climate Change 2020: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability” was released in Geneva. This report warned that heat and humidity…
T K Arun The lesson to be learned from the recent round of assembly elections is not that the Opposition should set its sights on 2029, forget 2024. The takeaway should be that building democracy, rather than targeting the BJP, is the…
TK Arun The war in Ukraine will herald changes in geopolitical structures, the energy transition, cross-border payments, and technology nationalism. You never step into the same river twice, because the flowing water has changed the river in the meantime. It…