As Europe's re-armament grows likely, a window of opportunity may be opening for India

New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- While the White House insists that the US might use military force to annex Greenland, serious people in Denmark believe that the actual takeover might be more prosaic. As Shane... Read More

India's single-party dominance challenge: The opposition needs to set its policy agenda right for a credible challenge

New Delhi, Dec. 29 -- Commenting on the politics of a Western democracy where he resides, my old friend Sanjay Krishnan remarked that the liberal party there is caught in quicksand. The more vigorousl... Read More

Last rights: The right to die with dignity should be upheld both in letter and spirit

New Delhi, Dec. 14 -- David Michael Malone, my friend and mentor, elected to die with dignity on 24 November at the age of 71. The veteran scholar-diplomat-a former Canadian high commissioner to India... Read More

Geopolitics: Creative conservatism should guide India's foreign policy in an era of US-China rivalry

New Delhi, Nov. 30 -- After this year's shocking turn in India-US relations, many argued that India must tilt towards China to counterbalance America. It is true that we have ended up becoming geopoli... Read More

Indian courts need expert guidance as they increasingly rule on complex economic matters

New Delhi, Nov. 16 -- A few months ago, the Karnataka government amended the state's cinema regulation rules to cap ticket prices at Rs.200. The multiplex industry association challenged this in the h... Read More

Let's use 'special governance zones' as test spaces to work out how we can improve urban India

New Delhi, Nov. 2 -- In a recent online conversation on the dismal state of urban infrastructure, a senior political leader all but admitted that government officials are incapable of delivering publi... Read More