Category: Politics
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Art 2. Vol 4. 2026 On 12 September, at Bharat Mandapam, leaders of the eleven-nation BRICS grouping unanimously adopted the New Delhi Declaration, a 140-paragraph text that took India’s negotiators through an all-night drafting session to close. Getting Russia, China, Iran and the UAE into the same paragraph as Brazil, Egypt and Indonesia, at a…
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Art 8. Vol 2. 2026 There is a particular kind of loneliness that only a Kishore Kumar song seems built to hold. I found that out for myself a few years ago, on a night I won’t describe in any detail here because the details don’t matter, only the fact that somewhere around two in…
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This guide encourages individuals to embrace courage and speak out against fear and intimidation, drawing on historical and literary examples. It outlines steps for growing a spine, emphasising the significance of honest self-examination and the cost of silence. Ultimately, it advocates for individual agency and the importance of defending friends and causes.
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Art 4. Vol 2. 2026 When Narendra Modi arrived in Jakarta on July 6, 2026, the Ministry of External Affairs described the trip as advancing a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership first elevated in 2018, and Modi himself noted before departing that India and Indonesia share strong civilisational and people-to-people ties. Most of the coverage since has…
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Art 2. Vol 2. 2026 The resignation of the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, marking the seventh change in leadership since the 2016 Brexit referendum- alongside a series of ministerial resignations, represents far more than another episode of Westminster’s political turbulence it reflects a deeper structural transformation that has fundamentally reshaped British politics. A…
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Art 2. Vol 1. 2026 The Long Game: How Conservative Think Tanks Built MAGA Let’s look at a fifty-year planning that was hiding in plain sight the entire time Let us establish something upfront that political commentators on both sides consistently fail to appreciate: MAGA did not begin with a man descending a golden escalator…
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Art 1. Vol 1. 2026 The fragile ceasefire negotiations between the United States and Iran once again underline a reality that has defined West Asian geopolitics for decades: hostility between Washington and Tehran is not merely the product of contemporary disputes over nuclear policy or regional security. Rather, it is rooted in a century of…
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By Kabeer Ghose The 2026 Assam Assembly elections marked a significant political moment in the evolution of electoral politics in northeast India. The Bharatiya Janata Party secured a third consecutive term in the state, further consolidating its position as the principal political force in Assam under the leadership of Hemanta Biswa Sarma, fondly called as…
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By Janmojaya Barik On ideology, identity, and why British politics keeps having the same argument with itself Let’s start with the accusation, because it comes up with remarkable regularity. Every few years, usually around election season, someone on the British right describes the Labour Party as communist. We compare the rose to the hammer and…
