His life’s most notable feature is his political career, which reveals a great paradox in the attitude of any contemporary reader. However, writing about his life and personality may result in ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling declaring the action of Tamil Nadu governor R N Ravi in reserving 10 bills for consideration as erroneous and illegal is a significant boost to federalism. Underscoring the ...

Unlike Trump 1.0 (2017–21), which imposed tariffs under Sections 232 and 301 primarily targeting steel, aluminium, and Chinese goods, Trump 2.0 is using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ...

And I am glad I did. What I had assumed would be the exact same film in different languages and with a different cast turned out to be two marvellous cinematic pieces that become greater when put in ...

The NPP victory in the general elections was more resounding compared to the presidential election, where the party received 42% of the votes. It polled 61.6% of the vote in the general elections.

It receives about 4,000 billion cubic metres (bcm) of precipitation annually and the annual utilisable surface and groundwater resources in the country are 690 bcm and 431 bcm, respectively (World ...

A dargah is a tomb built over the grave of a Sufi saint. The demolition of dargahs is fuelled by a majoritarian ideology that justifies such actions in the name of fighting “land jihad”—a conspiracy ...

These estimates are based on the officially endorsed methodology suggested by the Tendulkar Committee which underpins estimates for 2011–12. For comparative purposes, Himanshu et al (2025a) also ...

Unlike during his previous two terms, when he chose to first visit neighbouring destinations as a part of his “neighbourhood first policy” (Bhutan in 2014 and the Maldives and Sri Lanka in 2019), this ...

The roiling markets and fears of a recession seem to have forced the US President to pause the implementation of the new reciprocal tariff rates on many countries, except China, for three months, ...

I had grown up knowing that my great-grandfather, Bireswar Sen, was an actor. My parents would point him out every time his films were on TV. Given that I had never met him in person, recognising him ...

In the last quarter of the 20th century, following market-driven export-oriented strategies, Southeast Asia emerged as one of the new growth zones of the global economy. This inspired many countries, ...