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Beyond Signatures

India’s recent trade diplomacy has produced an unusual paradox. New Delhi is negotiating or concluding trade agreements with a range of partners even as questions persist about what earlier agreements have actually delivered.

Beyond Hormuz

The geopolitical shock created by the Iran conflict is forcing countries far beyond West Asia to confront an uncomfortable reality: energy security can no longer be built around a single region, a single route or a single set of political assumptions.

Years of Grace

It was in 1982 that Dr Grace McCann Morley was bestowed the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award by the Government of India for her stellar contributions to the establishment of the National Museum in New Delhi.

Rot in Education

It would be difficult to decide which was the greater tragedy ~ fiasco at the AI Summit, or admission of students with negative marks in post-graduate medical classes.

Destruction can never be a strategy

Shortly after the opening salvo of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran on 28 February 2026 – with missiles targeting cities across the country, some of which killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – President Donald Trump declared the objective was to destroy Iran’s military capabilities and give rise to a change in government.

India’s lessons for a gender discourse

The United Nations’ theme for International Women’s Day 2026 - “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls” is a call to dismantle discriminatory laws, policies, practices and systemic barriers that pose barriers towards women equality and empowerment.

War Powers

When the United States enters another West Asia conflict, an old constitutional question returns: who decides when America goes to war?