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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…
TEHRAN, IRAN - DECEMBER 30 : People gather to protest over high cost of living in Tehran, Iran on December 30, 2017. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Unrest in Iran

In the absence of any obvious trigger, the eruption in Iran as 2017 drew to a close took everyone by surprise, providing an unexpected signpost for the new year. Given that the…
January 4, 2018

Kulbhushan Jadhav not alone

IT is possible that Kulbhushan Jadhav will go home free in 2018. It is possible that the Pakistan government has other plans for the convicted man, spy or no spy. All countries…
January 4, 2018

The Healing Touch of Love

Henry Thoreau, the 19th century writer, naturalist and philosopher once remarked: “It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a…
January 3, 2018

Unseemly haste: on the triple talaq Bill

On December 28, the Lok Sabha passed the ‘triple talaq’ Bill — the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill — following a day of engaging discussion. It will soon be…
January 3, 2018

The importance of being Mr Jinnah

IN one of the more unforgettable contemporary recollections of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Beverely Nichols in Verdict on India described the lanky and stylishly dressed barrister as the “most important man in Asia”.…
January 3, 2018

The trouble in Iran

In Kermanshah, a Kurdish town in Iran’s north-west, the protests on Friday were a classic scene of revolt: young men in battered clothes shouting and hurling rocks at the police as a…
January 3, 2018

A glimpse of hope

A grim year in India-Pakistan relations, 2017 has ended at somewhat at a positive note. Pakistan National Security Adviser (NSA) Gen (retired) Nasser Janjua and Indian NSA Ajit Doval finally met, though…
January 3, 2018

To counter Hindutva vigilantism,

Every passing week, in one part of the country or another, we Indians seem to underscore the validity of American civil rights champion Martin Luther King’s profound observation: “The ultimate tragedy of…
January 2, 2018