The BRICS of 2026 is very different from the grouping formed in 2009. With the addition of Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the bloc has become larger and more diverse.
India’s sugar policy is slipping into a familiar pattern. When production rises, exports are encouraged. When supply tightens, exports are restricted.
For someone who had spent most of his life studying constructed languages, the idea of constructing his own death would certainly have amused him. The flood of social media posts and the exchange of messages among Esperantists and linguists from across the world soon confirmed that this was no joke.
Five years after Myanmar's military seized power and plunged the country into a prolonged civil conflict, a new reality is emerging across Asia.
The controversy surrounding the Delhi Gymkhana Club is no longer only about one institution in Lutyens’ Delhi.
Mamata Banerjee's TMC worked as a cartel, violence at the centre of its ruling philosophy, manifesting itself as not just a political outfit, but marshalled on the lines of organized crime.
India cannot become a global infrastructure powerhouse merely by importing machines. Machines are assets; skilled workers denote capability.
The relationship between India and Italy has now reached a decisive stage.
For decades, West Bengal has lived on memory. The state that once led India in commerce, finance, manufacturing and intellectual life slowly ceded ground to Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, and even neighbouring Bangladesh in several labour-intensive sectors.
For decades, Goa occupied a singular place in the global imagination. It was not merely a beach destination, but a cultural mood ~ inexpensive, unhurried, and faintly detached from the commercial anxieties of modern tourism.
