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BRICS 2026: India hosts a defining summit for the Global South

Sheikh Nazir Mehdi                                                                                                                           The 18th BRICS Summit, held in New Delhi on 12 and 13 September 2026, has given fresh importance to a grouping that has grown far beyond its original identity. Under India’s fourth chairship, leaders from 11 member
Sep. 16, 2026

Indus Water Treaty

Syed Showkat Indus Water Treaty was brokered by the World Bank in 1960 after years of negotiations.

War is neither a compulsion nor an option

In the first 36 days of 2018, ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the Line of Control and International Border in Jammu and Kashmir had already touched 241, leaving nine Indian soldiers dead.
Feb. 12, 2018

Zainab and Asifa: Living In Darker Times

We are living in darker times and these are turning darker with each passing day. Killing of children in conflict zones like Kashmir, Palestine, Syria, and Afghanistan is continuing with no stop
Feb. 12, 2018

Khushwant’s Singh’s ‘warning’

Khushwant Singh was born on February 2 1915 in Punjab province of Pakistan and after the partition he migrated from newly formed state to India.Khushwant Singh is considered India’s best known writer,columnist
Feb. 10, 2018

The enduring Partition

The partition of the Punjab and the communal holocaust which followed has baffled and puzzled scholars for the last seventy years. On one side, some have argued that it was a time
Feb. 10, 2018
Vallabhbhai Patel and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. *** Local Caption *** Vallabhbhai Patel and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Express archive photo

Why Nehru vs Patel

Here is a counter-factual: If Rahul Gandhi had not been Congress president, would the prime minister have spoken recently in parliament of how Vallabhbhai Patel would have made a better prime minister
Feb. 10, 2018

The authentic past

It is a loss to Indian historiography that more Indians didn’t write memoirs. Fewer still left papers for interested posterity to sift through. David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn talk of the importance
Feb. 10, 2018
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