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Living on Global Credit

New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- The total global debt - consisting of the global public and private debt - was at USD 251 trillion in 2024, with public debt of USD 99.2 trillion and private debt decreasing to U... Read More


Gandhi and the State

New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- The 78th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Nation, who was shot dead on 30 January 1948 by the Hindu fanatic Nathuram Godse, coincides with the proposed rena... Read More


No Longer Just a Ceremony

New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- India will mark the 77th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution, celebrating the Republic Day on January 26. It is a tribute to the day India's Constitution came into fo... Read More


New Eugenics of Power

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- Economist Joseph E Stiglitz, in his recent column America's New Age of Empire, observes that, unlike the 19th-century British imperialism, Trumpian imperialism lacks any coherent... Read More


Who Owns the Hills?

New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- For decades, North-East India, comprising seven states - the 'seven sisters' - has been plagued with racial conflicts between indigenous tribes and non-tribal settlers. Conflicts ... Read More


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