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The writer is an independent security and political risk consultant.

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

Normal life remained disrupted across the Kashmir Valley for the 26th consecutive day, with markets closed and public transport off the roads. (Photo: File)

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

Protestors raised slogans against the Act and the central government. (Photo: ANI)

Students on front lines: What protests portend

Whatever the view, the fact is that India's youth, particularly the student population, is restive and in the mood for...

2 Jan 2020 1:38 AM IST

Few Indian pilots can boast of flying as many different types of aircraft as test pilot Wg Cdr P Ashoka. As an Indian Air Force (IAF) cadet in 1950, he learnt flying on an ancient Tiger Moth, a legendary biplane developed in the UK in the 1930s.

That magnificent man in his flying machines

MiG-27: The MiG-27 was a ground attack fighter bomber with supersonic capability. It was a large and heavy aircraft as...

20 Dec 2019 1:22 AM IST

Antonio Guterress statement came ahead of the UN General Assembly session where Pakistan has said that it would raise the issue of Kashmir. The country is rattled by the Indian governments move to abrogate Article 370 of the constitution that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: ANI)

As climate crisis grows, all of us should act now

The efforts of governments, corporations and individuals are just not enough to slow down, leave alone reverse, the...

10 Dec 2019 1:37 AM IST