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Trump 2.0: Return to Chaos or Unlikely Harbinger of Stability?
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election has ushered in a wave of both anxiety and cautious optimism across the...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Nov 8, 20245 min read


Will Trump’s Historic Win Usher a New Era of India-US Synergy?
Donald Trump’s return to the White House is arguably the most incredible political comeback in the annals of U.S. Presidential and...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Nov 7, 20245 min read


Trump Returns; Stage set for global churning
The Republican candidate becomes only second in the US history to make a comeback to the White House after a gap of four years...
Manash Pratim Bhuyan
Nov 7, 20242 min read


Echoes of History: How the 2024 Election Reflects America’s Political Legacy
As the 2024 United States Presidential election enters its final countdown, the political climate reverberates with echoes from past...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Nov 6, 20245 min read


America First Meets Political Correctness: Trump and Harris on Foreign Policy
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris represent two poles in American foreign policy. Trump’s brash, transactional style was...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Nov 5, 20245 min read


‘Deep State’ and Donald Trump
If Donald Trump wins a second term as U.S. President, his primary target will likely be what he describes as “the Deep State” in America....

Vappala Balachandran
Nov 5, 20243 min read


The Eternal Pivot: Swing States and the American Electoral Pendulum
In the thick of every U.S. presidential election cycle, attention inevitably turns to a peculiar list of states: those that can tip the...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Nov 4, 20245 min read


A Paradox of Peace: When Writers Demand Arms, Not Appeasement
In her acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, historian and journalist Anne Applebaum—a figure long revered for...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Oct 29, 20243 min read


Kazan Summit: BRICS Nations to Push For A Multipolar World
Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa will meet in Kazan, Russia, next week for the 16th BRICS summit, marking a...

Kaswar Klasra
Oct 22, 20243 min read


The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
This year, the Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Oct 21, 20243 min read


Lost on Everest: A Century of Unsolved Mystery
More than a century ago, a man was asked a question at a lecture he was giving in the United States. The answer to that question defined...

Sumer Brar
Oct 20, 20243 min read
Can Pakistan Protect Its People and Foreign Workers?
The Duki massacre shocked the country with its brutality. The miners from the Pakhtun ethnic community and Afghan nationals were...

Kaswar Klasra
Oct 13, 20243 min read


Geoffrey Hinton: AI’s Quiet Pioneer
Geoffrey Hinton, tall, soft-spoken, with an almost monk-like reverence for the unseen mechanics of the mind, has long been known by the...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Oct 13, 20243 min read


India’s Quiet Pivot: How Strategic Ties with Israel are Redefining Its Role in the Middle East
India’s relationship with Israel has traversed a remarkable arc, evolving from a largely passive distance to a powerful, albeit quiet,...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Oct 11, 20245 min read


Students who engineered the change feel defeated
Out of 158 coordinators 40 have quit; others looking way around Kolkata: The platform, which led the Anti-Discrimination Students...

Romita Datta
Oct 10, 20242 min read


Israel’s Long War in Lebanon: From Sharon’s ‘Mailed Fist’ to Precision Strikes against Hezbollah
Israel’s tangled tryst with Lebanon has been one long, dark waltz in the violent ballroom of the Middle East. Once known as the ‘Paris of...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Oct 9, 20245 min read


Between Expediency and Indifference: The Arab States’ Paradox with Palestinians
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has sparked an exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from Gaza since Israel’s...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Oct 8, 20245 min read


Yemen’s Houthis: The New Player in Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’
As Israel was rallying from the shock attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7 last year and fending off guided...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Oct 7, 20245 min read


A Year of Strife: Israel, Hamas, and the Shadow War of Intelligence
Exactly a year ago, Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups launched a blitzkrieg on Israel, killing over 1,200 civilians and foreign...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Oct 6, 20244 min read


A famed Dutch diplomat’s forgotten Indian tryst
India had changed. After spending ten days perusing the antiquarian bookshops of Kolkata, Robert Hans van Gulik arrived by train in New...

Laurence Westwood
Aug 31, 20243 min read
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