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From Empires to Uprisings: The Unfinished Journey of Governance

Srinagar, Oct. 25 -- The older generation brings valuable experience and historical knowledge, but must recognise that the world facing today's youth is very different. Artificial intelligence, changi... Read More


When Loyalty Kills Conscience

Srinagar, Oct. 18 -- Humanity has advanced in science, technology and communication, but are we regressing in our ability to think, question and distinguish right from wrong? Across the world, politic... Read More


The Making of a Radical

Srinagar, Oct. 11 -- Is radicalisation really only a product of religious doctrine? Or does it emerge from a much larger mixture of political conflict, repression, economic inequality, foreign interve... Read More


When Inequality Becomes a Revolution

Srinagar, Oct. 3 -- Throughout history, social inequality, economic disparity, and the high-handedness of those in power have often created the conditions for revolution. When wealth and power become ... Read More


The paradox of human progress

Srinagar, Sept. 20 -- Humanity has advanced at an astonishing pace in science and technology. We can place machines on Mars, edit genes, transplant organs, communicate instantly across continents, pre... Read More


Is Democracy Dying, or Is the World Demanding a Better One?

Srinagar, Sept. 13 -- For decades, democracy was presented almost as the inevitable destination of human political evolution. Dictatorships would fall, people would vote, institutions would strengthen... Read More


The World Young People Inherit, and the World They Must Change

Srinagar, Sept. 6 -- Every generation inherits a world it did not create. But today's young people are inheriting a particularly contradictory one: extraordinary technological progress alongside inequ... Read More


Who Owns the Revolution?

Srinagar, Aug. 30 -- Revolutions are rarely born among those comfortable with the existing order. They are most often carried by the young, people willing to question what previous generations have ac... Read More


India: The Unified Dream

Srinagar, Aug. 16 -- When India gained independence on August 15, 1947, it entered a world being reshaped by the aftermath of the Second World War, the beginning of the Cold War, the rise of the Unite... Read More


When God Enters the Cabinet

Srinagar, Aug. 9 -- There is perhaps no political instrument more powerful than faith. Governments can offer jobs, welfare and security, while political parties can promise development and prosperity.... Read More