French Elections 2024: Macron’s Triumph Over Far-Right Nationalism
Macron’s call for snap elections was a political gamble, and it has succeeded in deflating the Right’s political momentum.
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Modi Skips SCO, But India Remains Committed to the Forum
The deep-seated contradictions among member states on regional security and terrorism, combined with growing Chinese influence, have compelled New Delhi to perform a strategic balancing act.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not attend the 24th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, last week. Instead, the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar headed the Indian delegation and read the PM’s remarks at the Astana summit.
Let a thousand IPLs Bloom: India’s Untapped Potential for Sports as a Job-Creating Powerhouse
India needs to look at sports as a giant job-creating, hyper-local economic enterprise
Modern Leadership: The Impact of Palaeolithic Instincts on 21st Century Leader Selection
There's a Stone Age-like preference for leaders who strut tall, talk big, look bold; Biden is being judged not for his policies but for his fumbling at the debate
Orangutans and chimpanzees offer an insight into the public reaction to the recent debate between US presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
No, we are not suggesting any particular resemblance of either candidate to these primates, who still have not come down from the trees, unlike the primates we are more familiar with.
Rather, the point is that some quirks of human character make rational political choice rather difficult.
Beyond Easy Blame: Understanding the Tragedy of the Satsang Stampede
TK Arun When 2.5 lakh people scramble to grab some particles of the dust kicked up by a departing godman’s car, it offers a telling commentary on the state of society. They came to the Satsang (religious gathering) for salvation…
From Biden to Sunak: Global Dissatisfaction with Political Elites
Politics around the world is evolving in ways that both leaders and analysts are finding difficult to assess and respond to. Politicians are scrambling to sustain support as new entrants make inroads into constituencies that have lost faith in the established order. It is in this melee of the old and the new that the grammar of today's politics is charting a course of its own. Globally, the political elites have never seemed so out of touch as they seem today, unable to respond to the challenge from their streets.