War and Consent
The most enduring consequence of a war is often not what happens on the battlefield, but what it reveals about the institutions that authorise it.
The most enduring consequence of a war is often not what happens on the battlefield, but what it reveals about the institutions that authorise it.
At its zenith, England was known as a nation of shopkeepers, where trade followed the crown; this was however interchangeable ~ the East India Company accumulated an empire, many times the size of the mother country.
India has its own long and bitter experience of this asymmetry, and Jammu and Kashmir is its sharpest instance.
Annual conferences organized by UNFCCC to review climate actions like funding poor nations to cover loss and damage inflicted by global warming and transitioning away to green energy have not resulted in concrete actions.
The horror of a particularly brutal sexual assault in Bihar's Begusarai has once again provoked national outrage and revived memories of the crime that shook Delhi and India in December 2012. Such comparisons are understandable.
In the vast tapestry of global commerce, few threads are as crucial to India’s economic fabric as the flow of goods through the Red Sea.
A former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) had described elections as ‘the dance of democracy,’ but unfortunately, according to the present CEC, ‘four Ms’ money, muscle power, misinformation and Model Code of Conduct violations, threaten to spoil the tone of the coming elections.
In particular, Korea, one of the poorest countries and one of the military dictatorships 50 years ago, is proud to have become a prosperous country and hold a democracy summit.
The election schedule for the 18th Lok Sabha elections was announced last week. The upcoming poll will feature a multi-party contest, with the ruling BJP-led NDA alliance and the opposition coalition of the INDIA bloc being the primary contenders.
US President Joseph Biden gave his annual State of the Union speech to Congress.
