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