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 Mi

UNESCO’s recognition elevates the Maratha fort network into global history as a model of terrain-led defence. Earlier this week, amid ceremonial rhythms in Paris, a piece of Indian history was quietly elevated to the global stage when Maharashtra’s Minister for Culture Ashish Shelar was presented with the official certification from  UNESCO  recognising a clutch of twelve forts which have played a key role in Maratha history as a World Heritage property. The newly inscribed p

It was not once, but thrice, that Maharashtra came close to having a woman as its chief minister. Destiny—and party calculus—intervened each time. As January drew to a close, 67 years after the state’s formation, Maharashtra finally saw its first woman deputy chief minister: a grieving Sunetra Pawar. The moment was marked not by celebration but by tragedy. She had lost her husband, the powerful Ajit Pawar, in an aircraft crash just days earlier. Her elevation came less from c

From individual travellers to the regional economy, the Navi Mumbai International Airport is no longer just an infrastructure project but a lived experience. When Vineeta Garg boarded her flight for a year-end holiday, infrastructure was the last thing on her mind. An IT professional originally from New Delhi and now based in Pune, she was more concerned with the usual anxieties of air travel and the tensions that preceded it - traffic jams, long queues and frayed nerves. But

As the Arctic thaws and power politics return, Greenland is no longer a peripheral curiosity but a test of Europe’s strategic nerve and America’s imperial impatience From Viking outposts to Cold War airstrips, Greenland has always mattered for reasons larger than itself. Geography has been its calling card. When Donald Trump stood before the World Economic Forum in Davos this week and declared Greenland as American territory, he was asserting maximalist leverage in a world wh

From the Singur protests to recent clashes with the ED Clashes, federal friction has fueled the TMC’s triumphs. In the lead-up to the 2026 West Bengal Assembly Elections, Akhilesh Sinha casts a spotlight on this unfolding political contest. West Bengal's political theatre has once again erupted with the thunder of enforcement raids. Earlier this month, When the Enforcement Directorate (ED) descended on the home and office of Prateek Jain, chief of political strategy firm I-PA

Dhurandhar’s  continuing box-office smash reveals how Bollywood’s patriotism has evolved from chest-thumping emotion to cool-headed statecraft. Bollywood has always moved in cycles. At one point, it obsessed over star-crossed lovers, in another phase, it was family melodramas or vigilante revenge. Yet one theme returns with almost metronomic regularity: the nation at war with itself or with others. Patriotism, in Hindi cinema, is not merely a genre but a barometer of national

As the INSV Kaundinya retraces an ancient sea route, Shoumojit Banerjee explores India’s rich maritime past and its disruption by European colonialism Two days before the New Year, as the winter sun settled over Porbandar’s harbour, a ship put to sea in a manner that would have been eminently recognisable along India’s western coast more than a millennium ago. There was no engine to mark its departure, no steel hull vibrating against the pier as the vessel slipped into the Ar