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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.

The Trump Effect

On July 31, President Donald Trump announced 25 per cent tariffs on Indian imports into the USA. Subsequently the tariffs were hiked to a cumulative rate of 50 per cent.

Defiance and Momentum

Britain’s recognition of a Palestinian state, swiftly joined by France, Canada, Australia and other Western partners, has turned a diplomatic ripple into a tide.

Sending signals

Baron Jakob Johann von Uexkull, a Baltic German biologist, mentioned in his book entitled Stroll through the World of Animals that all creatures, including plants, on this planet live in an Umwelt (German, literally “environment”) ~ that is its own sensory world evolved to satisfy its particular requirements.