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The writer is an independent security and political risk consultant.

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Indranil Banerjie | Is fall of Kabul a Humpty Dumpty moment for US?

President Biden's address to the American people suggested a lack of geopolitical sapience

3 Sept 2021 1:18 AM IST

One of the implications of climate change that has not received much attention is its impact on civilisations. Representational Image. (ANI)

Indranil Banerjie | A hotter, wetter planet to trigger new world...

This calamitous warning comes from the latest report released earlier this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on...

13 Aug 2021 2:52 AM IST

Thousands of Afghan women banned from public life during the Taliban days. Representational Image. (PTI)

Indranil Banerjie | Dark days loom for Afghans: Will Kabul die another...

After a bitter nine-year war, Mikhail Gorbachev finally pulled the plug on a conflict that had claimed thousands of...

18 July 2021 11:50 PM IST

Cover photo of Red Fort: Remembering the Magnificent Mughals by Debasish Das. (Twitter)

Book Review | Resurrecting, in mind's eye, a living Red Fort

While much of the book and its many short sections tend to be somewhat disjointed and faltering, as we approach the end,...

4 July 2021 3:25 AM IST

This is clearly a book that needs to be read over an extended period of time. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | Hobsbawm's choice: When logic rejects nationalism...

Britain's best-known historian, Eric Hobsbawm, traverses a similar path in his writings on Nationalism

6 Jun 2021 9:18 AM IST

Pakistans generals, who own and control the Taliban, want more than anything else to forcefully and completely eject all Indian presence from Afghanistan. (Photo: AFP)

Indranil Banerjie | US Afghan exit a pyrrhic victory for Pak generals?

The last time the Taliban had taken over Afghanistan, 26 years ago, India's historical presence in Afghanistan was...

20 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Cover page of Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India

Book REVIEW | The good doctor's submissions

The book's many, well-researched papers dealt with the larger issue of the state of healthcare in India

6 Dec 2020 9:16 AM IST

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event to name his economic team at the Queen Theater on December 1 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Indranil Banerjie | Are America's days over as world's moral arbiter?

The bitter and highly polarised November 2020 election was watched with disbelief and distaste across the world

2 Dec 2020 7:23 AM IST

The Indian economy continues to struggle with infrastructural issues. (DC Photo)

The corona disruption and the impact on India

Even higher rates of unemployment engendered by a pandemic could stoke political instability

23 March 2020 7:23 AM IST

US president Donald Trump

Trump is on a roll now, India needs to cash in

President Trump's victory in the Senate trial was a foregone conclusion with its Republican majority standing firm...

8 Feb 2020 3:06 AM IST

Shutting down the Internet seems to have become standard operating procedure. Not different in essence from the lockdown enforced by the daroghas fearful bamboo cane and shouting the orders: Bandh karo .

Regulating the Internet: A darogha is a total misfit

Section 144 of the Indian Criminal Procedure Code is one such instrument used to lock down a potentially troublesome...

29 Jan 2020 2:33 AM IST

The Asiatic Societys 2019 catalogue

Asiatic Society's 2019 Reprints: Looking back at a glorious past

The meticulous translations of Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tibetan and other works opened up India's past to the...

17 Jan 2020 2:14 AM IST