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Breaking 'Sarpanch Pati Raj'

New Delhi, Dec. 27 -- The 'Sarpanch Pati' phenomenon is an unconstitutional practice of husbands and other male relatives of elected women Sarpanches exercising authority on their behalf.. Disapprovin... Read More


Collapse of a Ceasefire

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- A fatal clash between Cambodia and Thailand has erupted yet again in early December, barely six weeks after the peace deal brokered by US President Donald Trump on October 26, 20... Read More


Dirty Underside of Green Transition

New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- Last month when the global leaders were busy in deliberating on various aspects of carbon emission and negotiating on the quantum of climate finance required to mitigate global w... Read More


Allies in a Flux

New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- December 4 and 5 mark the latest chapter in the Indo-Russian relationship, with the Russian President Vladimir Putin's State Visit to India, which has been shaped by decades of c... Read More


A Volatile Subcontinental Shift

New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- Religious authoritarianism on the subcontinent, especially in Pakistan and India, is not new. The two nations were born based on religious identity. Bangladesh, which was establis... Read More


New Political Reckoning?

New Delhi, Nov. 27 -- Democratic socialist Zoran Mamdani's election as New York City's mayor has reignited the debate about the future of capitalism as practised in the USA today. Reacting to Mamdani'... Read More


Old Ideas, New Chaos

New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- Since January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the richest democracy of the world that will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the... Read More


The Prison Economy

New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Governments worldwide spend hundreds of billions annually to keep millions of people behind bars. In many countries, private corporations have joined the 'prison-industrial compl... Read More


Shadows of Statelessness

New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- One of the world's most important and pressing refugee crises is currently occurring in Southeast Asia. At least 1.2 million Rohingya have been displaced and declared 'stateless'... Read More


America's Asian Balancing Act

New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- The US President just completed his three nations - Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, East Asian tour (October 26-30), where he met leaders from the Association of SouthEast Asian ... Read More