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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.

All was not well for Netanyahu

That all is not right at home was made resoundingly clear as Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boarded the flight for India with reporters asking why he was not taking his son
Jan. 16, 2018

India-Pakistan on way to self-destruction

Tension between India and Pakistan has upped another level following aggressive statements from Indian army chief Gen Bipin Rawat and Pakistan’s defence minister Khwaja Asif, last week, laying out a direct nuclear
Jan. 15, 2018

A chance to reform

In times of deep institutional crisis the invocation of moral conscience, a reminder that posterity will adversely judge those who sold their souls is, on the face of it, an important
Jan. 15, 2018

On The Wrong Side of History

Brisk winds lashed our faces as we descended from the sherut which brought us from Tel Aviv to Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, during April 2016. Starving from the two long hour journey,
Jan. 15, 2018

A cauldron of discontent

Politics is a hard taskmaster. Politicians may manipulate public sentiment and reap electoral victories but time has a way of making them accountable. We have witnessed a slew of impressive electoral triumphs
Jan. 15, 2018

Wars in India: Looking back at history

War, as the word suggests, is an armed conflict. It is fought against external forces or between two opponents. In a democracy, we have another kind of war — a “political war”.
Jan. 15, 2018

Is Indian civilization a myth?

When the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014, the apprehension in academic publishers’ minds that sales of liberal and Left books might suffer was offset by the assumption that the
Jan. 15, 2018

The mother of pearls

Ananda Devi’s writing encircles like a black mamba snake. It invades. It strangles. It coils tightly and then lashes out with desire. In Eve out of Her Ruins, language is the story.
Jan. 13, 2018
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