Geopolitics in the age of scrolling
There was a time when geopolitics moved through formal rooms. A state issued a statement. A spokesperson read from a prepared text.
There was a time when geopolitics moved through formal rooms. A state issued a statement. A spokesperson read from a prepared text.
There Are moments in history when a nation’s progress stops being incremental and becomes directional.
The announcement of a framework agreement between the United States and Iran has understandably been greeted with relief.
Modern society has an unhealthy relationship with medical progress. We crave miracles, celebrate breakthroughs and search for definitive cures.
Light follows darkness. After the 15-year long TMC era ~ most certainly a dark period in the socio-economic and political history of Bengal, people are now hoping for rejuvenation of a state that has fallen beyond the depth of anarchy and despair.
The Reserve Bank of India’s June 2025 policy surprised markets with its boldness ~ slashing the repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.5 per cent, cutting the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by a substantial 100 basis points, and pivoting its policy stance from accommodative to neutral.
The recent confirmation of healthy births through mitochondrial donation marks a profound turning point in the way humanity confronts hereditary disease.
Recently British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Welfare Reform Bill was passed in the House of Commons. Theoretically, passing bills for Starmer’s Labour Government shouldn’t be an issue, for it has 403 out of 650 MPs.
A shopkeeper was attacked by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers for not speaking Marathi. And this episode is not isolated as similar attacks have been reported across Maharashtra and India.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), originally envisioned as a bulwark against terrorism, separatism, and extremism, faces a moment of reckoning. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, at the recent foreign ministers’ meet in Tianjin, reminded the forum of its founding purpose.
