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March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…

Conflict in South Asia’s peripheries

The ongoing political crisis in Balochistan is one of the multiple conflicts in South Asia’s peripheries. A cursory look at them across different states in the region will highlight a geographic reality…
January 12, 2018

How Not to Engage With Pakistan

President Trump’s decision last week to suspend almost all security aid to Pakistan, which quickly followed his accusation that Pakistan had “given us nothing but lies and deceit,” suggests that his administration…
January 12, 2018

Not a criminal act

There are striking similarities between the offence of ‘theft’ and ‘adultery’ under the Indian Penal Code. Encyclopaedia of Diderot &d’Alembert, Vol. 1 (1751) also equated adultery with theft: “adultery is, after homicide,…
January 12, 2018

An unwise move

Jammu and Kashmir is preparing for yet another round of unrest due to government’s illogical rather provocative move to hold Panchayat elections in the state. Even as the elections are scheduled to…
January 11, 2018

The Increasing Unfitness of Donald Trump

What made the Emperor Nero tick, Suetonius writes in “Lives of the Caesars,” was “a longing for immortality and undying fame, though it was ill-regulated.” Many Romans were convinced that Nero was…
January 11, 2018

Muslim women are not hapless victims

On September 9, 1937, Muhammad Ali Jinnah made a passionate speech in the central legislative assembly during the enactment of the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act. The Act sought to replace…
January 11, 2018

Pakistan’s price of denial

Flawed policies and religious extremism The year, 2017, turned out to be quite tumultuous in terms of political events in Pakistan. The new year did not start on an encouraging note…
January 11, 2018

The ‘made in India’ bitcoins

Suspected fraudsters in India have come out with desi versions of bitcoin, a cryptocurrency used globally, and duped unsuspecting people of crores of rupees, police said. And, they are doing this in…
January 11, 2018
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