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Cool Breeze: New rules of engagement
New rules of engagement Various leaders wanting to promote their protégés in the coming Assembly elections are coming up for...
Confusion in Sri Lanka
SC has clipped Maithripala’s presidential wings, the country has two PMs and a besieged Speaker. The political confusion in...
PM Modi is right on Congress-urban Naxal links
Sonia Gandhi’s NAC comprised salon socialists, green terrorists and anti-business activists; the harm they did to the country is yet...
AAP unveils plans for its consolidation
Ruling out a pre-poll alliance with the Congress ahead of the 2019 Parliamentary elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has...
Forget mountain, even the molehill missing in Rafale
Modi’s impatience to cut out clutter and get things done forces him on back foot. The Supreme Court is...
Erdogan frantic to dislodge MbS
Erdogan and his Wahhabi friends expect that MbS, even if not replaced, will lack the fire within him to continue...
Animal spirits truly possess great power
The recent controversial killing of Avni, the tigress who was allegedly a man eater, set me thinking. Given the tragic...
Cool Breeze: Politics of fighter jets
The launch of my book The Contenders, Who Will Lead India Tomorrow, which profiles 16 GenNext politicians, was a power...
DeMo: Success or failure?
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is a brave man, for it calls for a great deal of courage to defend as...
The attack on the rules-based order
When nations begin to break their own rules and ignore agreed customs, instead of refreshing them and building on them...
We can do without the nomenclature epidemic
Renaming cities cannot be national priority. We have far more work to do in the fields of health, education etc....
China’s economic tentacles are grabbing Southern Europe
Next month Chinese President Xi Jinping is undertaking a state visit to Spain and Portugal, cementing China’s quiet diplomatic and...
Nexus of good
The CBI-moment could well be the curtain-call moment for the faceless public servant. The bad and the ugly are known....
RSS banks on Lord Ram instead of BJP
Ahead of the 2019 Parliamentary polls, the growing clamour for the construction of a temple at the disputed site in...
Individual freedom is central to Hindu ethos
Hinduness is dialectical, but imperial desire does not come naturally to the Hindu. Going by his recent statements to...
