What Is End Times Fascism And What’s The Role Of Big Tech Here?
“A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West,” reads a recent recruitment ad for Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm...
World View
Nepal’s Flood Disaster Puts Global Loss-And-Damage Fund To The Test
Nepal has approached the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage for quick relief following the August 26 floods. Himalayan...
BAPS Controversy: When Religious Deference Comes At Women’s Cost
The controversy surrounding a recent BAPS delegation at Paris’s Eiffel Tower is about more than an awkward protocol dispute. It...
How An Israeli Crocodile Moat Plan Dehumanizes Palestinian Prisoners
When Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir proposed surrounding a prison holding Palestinian security detainees with Nile crocodiles, many people...
How Community-Based Warnings Saved Lives During Nepal Floods
During Nepal’s devastating August 2026 floods, an important lesson emerged: community-based warnings were often faster and more effective than the...
Q&A: ‘There Was A Gap Between Alert And Action’ In Nepal Floods
Following the devastating floods that swept through Nepal’s Rasuwa district on 26 August, over 1,000 people have been confirmed dead,...
From Partnership To Penalty: US Tariffs Shadow India Trade Deal
US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor recently claimed that the US-India trade agreement is on the verge of finalisation and...
Gaza ‘Road Map’ Struggles Amid Distrust And Political Resistance
Nearly 10 months after agreeing to the first phase of a ceasefire, Israel and Hamas are being compelled – somewhat...
India & Pakistan’s Rivalry Has Made The Dangerous Move Into Space
India and Pakistan fought an intense four-day war in May 2025. But while the media narrative was dominated by fighter...
In Asia, A New Geopolitics Might Be Emerging After Khamenei’s Funeral
Earlier this month, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was buried in his hometown of Mashhad after a...
Slum Demolitions In Nepal Trigger Human Rights Outcry
The mass eviction of slums and informal settlements in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu and surrounding districts has displaced an estimated 15,000–20,000...
Children Among Dead As Gaza Crisis Deepens Amid Intensified Strikes
Children continued to bear the brunt of Israel's ongoing military offensive in Gaza this week, as fresh airstrikes, attacks on...
“A Betrayal Of India’s Civilisational Ethos… Simply Unconscionable”
The Congress on Monday mounted a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited...
3 Lessons For The World From The Fall Of Another UK Prime Minister
A multitude of factors, nosediving public opinion in the UK among them, has defenestrated another leader. But Keir Starmer’s resignation...
Stop ‘Appeasing’ Trump, Don’t Sign Skewed Trade Deal: Congress To PM
As crucial trade negotiations between India and the United States gather pace, the Congress has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
The Mistakes That Sealed UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Fate
On the gloriously sunny morning of July 5 2024, Keir Starmer walked into Downing Steet as prime minister for the...
Iran War: What Did The US & Israel Truly Achieve?
After weeks of on-again, off-again negotiations, US President Donald Trump finally seems to have secured an agreement from the Iranian...
Earth’s Energy Imbalance Has Doubled – Here’s Why That Matters
Heatwave across Europe and south Asia have dominated the news recently. But these events are really a surface expression of...
What Happens When The World’s Breadbaskets Start Failing At Once?
Agriculture today is a massive, globally interconnected industry. That interconnectivity has brought jobs and varied foods to people who might...
What Is ‘Strategic Autonomy’ & Why Is Everyone Reaching For It?
Strategic autonomy is having a moment. European leaders are invoking it to justify a historic defense buildup; India’s foreign ministry...
A Man Out Of Time – E.M. Forster And The Legacies Of Colonialism
I was aware of David Lean’s cinematic adaptation of A Passage to India (1984) before I encountered E.M. Forster’s original...
Baloch Insurgency: How It Imperils South Asian Regional Security
In the space of 10 days in late April 2026, insurgents in Pakistan purportedly carried out 27 attacks in the...
How Democracies Became The New Digital Authoritarians
“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. China remains the master practitioner. There,...
The Race To Discover New Species Before They’re Gone
When most people imagine scientists discovering new species, they probably still picture an expedition into the unknown. A naturalist travels...
Israel’s Lebanon Campaign Risks Repeating Past Failed Lessons
Going into the war in Iran, the Israeli government seemingly had two intertwined goals: to bring down the Islamic Republic...
