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T K Arun It takes a snake roughly two weeks to slough off its skin and grow a fresh one. If Nitish Kumar had taken a fortnight to moult his current political positioning, so as to respond to the perceived…
Anil Trigunayat The visit of US Congress Chairperson Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan , even for 20 odd hours , was bound to create the controversy and conflict that the politicians and pedagogues often find useful in their quest for superiority…
Anil Trigunayat In any negotiation, both sides want to extract the maximum mileage until it becomes a zero-sum game. Face-saving and victory of sorts for all sides, at least a perceived one, is often the outcome. In addition, those third…
Harsh V Pant As Chinese missiles and bombers crisscross the Taiwan Straits, the Ukraine conflict seems to have taken a backseat. The world is riveted by what is happening in the waters surrounding Taiwan and is trying to comprehend the…
Karnika Arun The issue of child marriages and large dropout rates of girl child have been persisting in India since time immemorial. This is usually because of the financial burden that cannot be undertaken by the families of girl children…
25 kilometres south east of Bhopal, and a few kilometres downstream of Mandideep is the ancient town of Bhojpur with its world's oldest, still functioning dam.
Dhiraj Nayyar Freebies are an almost essential part of a political democracy, whether in India or abroad. But after watching economic crises unfold in the neighbourhood – primarily in Sri Lanka but also in Bangladesh and Pakistan – there is…