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Arsonist in Uniform
Asim Munir thrives on nuclear blackmail, jihadist venom and shameless self-glorification while his enablers in Washington look the other...

Kiran D. Tare
Aug 16, 20253 min read


Rebel Without a Clue
Rahul Gandhi has turned the Congress into an echo chamber by peddling conspiracy, parroting the narrative of India’s adversaries and...

Kiran D. Tare
Aug 9, 20253 min read


Checkmate in Her Genes
Divya Deshmukh’s World Cup victory signals a generational shift in Indian chess. For much of the past two decades, Indian chess has...

Kiran D. Tare
Aug 2, 20253 min read


A Measured Man
Keir Starmer delivers a landmark India trade deal with quiet efficiency while Britain waits for something more. Earlier this week,...

Shoumojit Banerjee
Jul 26, 20253 min read


Correcting the Record
The nomination of Meenakshi Jain to the Rajya Sabha marks the ascent of an unapologetically indigenous view of Indian history into the...

Kiran D. Tare
Jul 19, 20253 min read


Musk’s Quiet Power Broker
Vaibhav Taneja, Tesla’s CFO, is now bankrolling Elon Musk’s political rebellion. Elon Musk’s long-simmering feud with Donald Trump has...

Kiran D. Tare
Jul 12, 20253 min read


The Last Sovereign
At 90, the Dalai Lama is confronting the future of his reincarnation with resolve and without deference to Beijing. On July 2, in the...

Kiran D. Tare
Jul 5, 20253 min read


The Art of the (Middle East) Deal
Though elected on an isolationist promise, President Trump’s Middle East doctrine has alarmed MAGA purists by embracing strength and...

Kiran D. Tare
Jun 28, 20253 min read


Licence to Lead
Blaise Metreweli takes charge of Britain’s foreign intelligence service, completing a century-long arc of invisibility, persistence and...

Kiran D. Tare
Jun 21, 20253 min read


Game, Grace, Match
Coco Gauff’s triumph in Paris affirms that American tennis has found its next great ambassador. For years, American tennis has searched...

Kiran D. Tare
Jun 14, 20253 min read


From Jihadist to Statesman?
Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, once the face of Syria’s insurgency, is being recast as a geopolitical linchpin by Trump, Europe and...

Kiran D. Tare
Jun 7, 20253 min read


The Boy Who Would Be King
Can the youthful Shubman Gill rise above princely promise to build a new red-ball empire? When India’s selection committee chairman Ajit...

Kiran D. Tare
May 31, 20253 min read


Nalanda’s New Sage
As India revives its most storied ancient university, a seasoned development economist takes the reins with grand visions for global...

Kiran D. Tare
May 24, 20253 min read


Cry Freedom!
Mir Yar Baloch, a hitherto unknown activist globally, has thrust himself into the geopolitical limelight by declaring Balochistan...

Kiran D. Tare
May 17, 20253 min read


Nerves of Steel
Vikram Misri, India’s Foreign Secretary, did not pound the lectern nor did he reach for jingoistic soundbites. Instead, he dismissed...

Kiran D. Tare
May 10, 20252 min read


Return of the Commissioner
Mumbai’s new top cop returns with political backing, a checkered past, and a vision for the future. Deven Bharti’s elevation as...

Kiran D. Tare
May 3, 20253 min read


Diplomat with a Dagger
After the Pahalgam massacre, India’s foreign minister emerges as its wartime envoy-in-chief. The Pahalgam massacre of more than 25...

Kiran D. Tare
Apr 26, 20253 min read


The Relentless Advocate
Senior Advocate Dayan Krishnan, India’s go-to extradition expert, leads the legal battle to bring 26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana to justice....

Kiran D. Tare
Apr 19, 20253 min read


The Tariff Evangelist
Moulded in the crucible of Wall Street, Stephen Miran has become the intellectual architect of Trump’s economic nationalism. In 2009, a...

Kiran D. Tare
Apr 12, 20253 min read


Radical Prescription
When Dr. Jay Bhattacharya stepped into the political maelstrom of the COVID-19 pandemic, he wasn’t just another epidemiologist offering...

Kiran D. Tare
Mar 29, 20253 min read
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