The challenges witnessed in regional parties such as the Uddhav Sena after its split and the internal churn within the Trinamool Congress underline a larger political reality: charisma alone cannot sustain an organisation indefinitely.
Energy is the backbone of the modern economy, driving industrial productivity, transport, connectivity, trade and basic necessities.
Ten years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, the most revealing aspect of Brexit is not what happened, but what did not.
The withdrawal of an artwork from Britain’s National Portrait Gallery over its portrayal of Winston Churchill's role in the Bengal Famine of 1943 is not merely another episode in the culture wars.
Although loneliness stems from a feeling of social isolation, ironically, it is one of the most unifying human experiences.
There he was, sitting next to PM Narendra Modi, gnashing his teeth and lying through them.
When the government insists that an Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship, something more than a legal clarification is at stake.
The most enduring consequence of a war is often not what happens on the battlefield, but what it reveals about the institutions that authorise it.
At its zenith, England was known as a nation of shopkeepers, where trade followed the crown; this was however interchangeable ~ the East India Company accumulated an empire, many times the size of the mother country.
India has its own long and bitter experience of this asymmetry, and Jammu and Kashmir is its sharpest instance.
