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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.

Pragmatic pause

For decades, the Korean peninsula has been trapped in a cycle of lofty promises and bitter stalemates. Demands for North Korea to surrender its nuclear arsenal have consistently met with defiance, while each new round of sanctions or military drills has only hardened Pyongyang’s resolve.

Double-edged sword

The worldwide economic uncertainty ~ caused by Donald Trump’s shenanigans ~ has made Western countries focus on their declining populations, which has seriously eroded their manufacturing and consumer bases.

Deluge and Denial

Kolkata has once again found itself submerged ~ literally and figuratively ~ beneath a torrent of rain and the weight of its own urban vulnerabilities.

Gulf Power Shift

Saudi Arabia’s decision to formalise a mutual defence pact with Pakistan is more than a ceremonial embrace; it is a calculated signal of shifting power equations in the wider Asian neighbourhood.