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Though an important policy direction, National Monetisation Pipeline is fraught with risks, and requires careful planning and implementation

With cooperation and dialogue, the international community can leverage COP26 to reduce the points of friction

By Pramod K Nayar “You…have a natural flair for justice, and that has led to your having a natural flair for crime”. “It was feeling…It wasn’t really…logical deduction. It was based on a kind of emotional reaction or susceptibility to – well, I can only call it atmosphere”. These two quotes between them encapsulate the […]

With depleting coal stocks and rising energy demand, going big on green power is the best bet

With both QUAD and AUKUS jostling for strategic relevance, the two left out countries of QUAD — Japan and India —may feel peer pressure to integrate more with the US military alliance system

When startups can raise billions without any difficulty, why is infra financing proving to be a puzzle over decades?

As the woman who changed Germany demits office after 16 years as Chancellor, there’s a new German Consensus that there will be no more new fences

Crypto cannot be a currency because the fundamental element of a currency — that it should be a legal tender — is missing in this case

By Pramod K Nayar Poetry has often had to engage with the horrors of industrialisation or imperialism. The English Romantics’ antipathy towards railway lines is well known. As industrial modernity continued on its unstoppable way, cities like Paris and London were transformed from the inside out. Alongside machines, industrial complexes and urbanisation, poets also observed […]

As the US called curtains on its ‘forever war’ and evacuated its last soldier, it left behind a country in a complete mess. Even its own coalition partners were dismayed and could make little of Washington’s harried exit. Many Afghans are now without a ‘home’ and almost half the population needs humanitarian assistance to survive. […]

Frederick Forsyth’s masterly tweaking of the spy thriller gave us a classic that made murder a high-class, highly skilled profession

The fate of Afghanistan’s rich archaeological history, art and artefacts remains uncertain

Margaret Cousins, an Irish by birth, set the tune and Herbert Murrill, an English musician, made it speedy and bouncy on the lines of French national anthem La Marseillaise

Equipping and empowering our migrants to deal with the complications that arise at various stages of migration is no more an option

In fragile Northeast abound with border disputes, the flare-up between Assam and Mizoram over territorial claims is risky  

The world’s ‘Second Oldest Profession’ -- spying and espionage -- has been an integral part of the state system way before Pegasus

The Olympics beginning in Tokyo from July 23 will see many firsts -- deferred by a year, no crowds, athletes in a bio-bubble and stringent protocols 

Trying out a new system of Theatre Command when India is facing a Two Front Threat and the current system is serving well could have us wrong-footed

Despite several turbulent events, failed experiments and policies, the party persists

As a disparate new coalition with a mere single-vote majority takes charge in Israel, it could mean more status quo than change

Japan’s decision to release over one million tonnes of contaminated water from its destroyed nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean has upset many

Imperialism today needs to be conceptualised in terms of gratis (one-way transfer of wealth to western nations) plus the threats that it poses to human life and the planet itself  

With China all set to take sovereign control of Colombo Port City, a wary India must realign its South Asia strategy

Planetary concerns over pathogenic environments have attained fever-pitch yet the larger eco-crisis arising from imperial impulses continues unchanged