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Strategic Shift

In the volatile landscape of West Asia, Israel stands as a beacon of resilience amid perpetual turmoil.

Trapped in the Darien Gap

The Darien Gap is a stretch of densely forested jungle across northern Colombia and southern Panama. Roughly 60 miles (97 kilometres) across, the terrain is muddy, wet and unstable. No paved roads exist in the Darien Gap. Yet despite this, it has become a major route for global human migration.

Encountering Ellsberg

Dan Ellsberg was loathed especially for courageous acts that many disapproving colleagues knew deep down that they should have emulated. His release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 spurred anti-war momentum enormously and proved what critics had been saying all along. I was well aware of him from that moment forward, although, as we learned later, we both had been tear gassed during the 1971 Mayday demonstrations in Washington DC but in different areas of town. Dan soon emerged as a moral figure who never ever pretended to be holier than thou, which made him all the more attractive

Xi’s folly

Even as the visit of the Prime Minister to the United States of America is underway, and as experts conclude it marks a defining movement in relations between the two countries in that it may well signal the end of India’s policy of non-alignment