New Delhi, April 30 -- When Yeats wrote his celebrated poem The Second Coming in 1919, the lines "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" caught the world's attention, recovering as it was from the wanton violence of World War I.

What inspired the poet is contested, but his words are as relevant today as they were a century ago.

The senseless Iran war is taking the core of global certainties apart, with much of the globally accepted compact coming unstuck.

A decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to quit Opec-or Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries-is among the unforeseen outcomes of this war.

Opec is a 66-year-old plurilateral economic club that's seen to operate like an oil ...