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Deterrence Revisited

For more than two decades, India’s nuclear doctrine has been treated as a settled matter.

Counting Care

For generations, Indian society has perfected a contradiction.

The Fifth Stream ~ II

The question remains even today: on what legal basis can the Jana Sangh or the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh conclusively be called fascist? They were accused of being anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, but these accusations were never decisively established in legal terms.

H-1B ruling offers respite to Indians

On 8 June, a US federal judge in Boston struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, ruling it an unlawful tax that Congress never authorized.

1900s once again

The recently-concluded State visit of US President Donald Trump, along with First Lady Melania Trump, to the United Kingdom has provided global netizens with a host of quotations, symbols and optics bringing the imperial past to the fore.

Living longer, living better

W B Yeats’ iconic opening line of the poem ‘ Sailing to Byzantium’, 1926, declares on a sad note ‘that is no country for old men’. In a systematically developed series of images the poet unravels the contexts of growing old and highlights how aging often evolves into irrelevance rather than a value for wisdom.

Trump turns

US President Donald Trump’s declaration that Ukraine can reclaim all of its original territory marks one of the most striking ~ and bizarre ~ reversals of his presidency.