China’s CPC Congress & Russian Gas
T K Arun Winter is coming. Not in the sense of a foreboding of a long period of stark, dark experiences, as in The Game of Thrones that has made the phrase part of the language, but as a period…
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Ukraine War & Global Inflation
T K Arun People are angry and distressed, pretty much across the world. They are unhappy for their own specific set of reasons: fuel, food, and medicine shortage in Sri Lanka; near starvation in parts of Africa, and Afghanistan; heat…
No Population Explosion in India, only Population Scaremongering
TK Arun The publication of the United Nations’ World Population Prospects 2022 has served as an occasion for the display in India of much bigotry and ignorance by very many people who should know better. The report posits that India would…
Joe Biden’s Middle Eastern Safari
Anil Trigunayat An old adage in diplomacy is that there are no permanent friends or enemies only permanent interests. One could qualify it to include even temporary interests due to prevailing geopolitical or geo economical constraints and headwinds. US President Joe…
India-EU Trade Talks
Harsh V. Pant India and the European Union have once again embarked on an ambitious journey. Both understand the need for urgency in reaching their destination. But the path towards that end game remains a tumultuous one despite a new…
Shimla’s Water Crisis- A Man-made Disaster
Tikender Singh Panwar Climate change is a continuing phenomenon. It has accentuated in the last four decades during which human-induced impact on climate substantially affected almost all aspects of life – nature being the worst affected. As a philosopher pointed…
Amendments in The Land Preservation Act
Tikender Singh Panwar This year on world environment day three aspects are of umpteen importance in ensuring a sustainable world. Reducing carbon emission; the challenge of biodiversity, the rapid pace with which it is reducing and; the massive land-use change…