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Making peace the Qatari way

New Delhi, June 22 -- Qatar's recent role in brokering a peace deal, ending the US-Iran war after over 100 days of fighting, once again demonstrates the extraordinary diplomatic influence of a small G... Read More


Why Bonn climate talks ended where they began

New Delhi, June 22 -- The just-concluded annual Bonn Climate Change Conference is being described as another gridlocked end to an endless round of climate negotiations. The operational mechanism for g... Read More


What Joe Sacco leaves unsaid

New Delhi, June 22 -- Journalist and cartoonist Joe Sacco's The Once and Future Riot unsettled me for a reason other than those Penguin Random House India cited for not distributing his book in the In... Read More


The crisis inside capture-based conservation

New Delhi, June 22 -- The tiger did not know it had become a governance problem. For months, Forest Department staff tracked its movements across a fragmented mosaic of farms, roads, villages, and re... Read More


Viksit Bharat's rural employment gamble

New Delhi, June 21 -- The Narendra Modi government's decision to replace the United Progressive Alliance-era Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the Viksit Bharat-Gua... Read More


Is it the end of the road for regional parties in India?

New Delhi, June 20 -- With the fall of Mamata Banerjee, the last of the major regional political warlords, the final chapter of an era has begun. The BJP's strategies-specifically deployed against reg... Read More


Muslim identity on the Hindi screen

New Delhi, June 20 -- Hindi cinema has long shaped the memories, culture, and emotions of generations of Indians. It has provided cultural representation, identity, and ideology to the nation. In Musl... Read More


Two decades of conditional rights and broken promises

New Delhi, June 19 -- On the morning of June 4, hundreds of tribal people in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district travelled in trucks, tractors, autorickshaws, and motorcycles from their hamlets to the D... Read More


Jai Bhim, Jai Jharkhand, and the JMM

New Delhi, June 19 -- On June 18, shortly after the conclusion of the Rajya Sabha election in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren posted a message on X congratulating the two newly elected members,... Read More


Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026): The historian of hidden lives

New Delhi, June 19 -- Carlo Ginzburg died in Bologna on June 17, 2026. He was 87. The news arrived without fanfare, as it does with any serious thinker of late. He was the son of Leone Ginzburg-the an... Read More