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Indranil Banerjie
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The writer is an independent security and political risk consultant.
    One of the implications of climate change that has not received much attention is its impact on civilisations. Representational Image. (ANI)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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)Books
    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)Books
    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)Opinion
    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 IndiaBooks
    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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 TrumpOpinion
    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 .Opinion
    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 catalogueBooks
    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

    Normal life remained disrupted across the Kashmir Valley for the 26th consecutive day, with markets closed and public transport off the roads. (Photo: File)Opinion
    Now or later, talks the only way out for J&K

    What might have lulled many in New Delhi into complacency is the relative calm in the Valley.

    13 Jan 2020 12:37 AM IST

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