Akhilesh Sinha

From the Khilafat years to Khamenei’s funeral prayers, foreign grief on Indian streets revives old questions about loyalty, identity and selective outrage. The death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint Israel-US strikes in Tehran has unleashed a wave of grief across India, from the valleys of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh to the heartlands of Uttar Pradesh. Streets filled with protesters, mosques and imambaras resonated with prayers and Fateha recitations. This fervour eerily...

As India unveiled its ambition to become an artificial-intelligence superpower, an unsettling sequence of protests and riots marred the summit. The India AI Impact Summit 2026 last week brought together global technology chiefs, investors, policymakers and heads of state from some 20 countries. At New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam, gleaming halls hosted what the government billed as the largest artificial-intelligence gathering the world has yet seen. But disturbingly, outside the halls, the...

Tarique Rahman’s ascent offers India and Bangladesh a chance to reset a relationship battered by ideology, geopolitics and neglect. On February 17, Bangladesh turned a new page following the return of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to power with Tarique Rahman emerging as the new Prime Minister. India extended unwavering support to its neighbour at this historic juncture, reigniting hopes for mending relations strained under Mohammad Yunus interim government. Prime Minister Narendra...