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Michelle Buckley, Paula Chakravartty in Boston Review: In December, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a personal request from his friend and political ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: expedite
Continue readingThe Israel-India Worker Deal Resembles British Indenture
Scott Hocker at The Week: Kerala is a microcosm of India itself. The 360-mile-long sliver abutting the Arabian Sea is a bewildering jumble of people, places and cultures. Impossible to
Continue readingKerala: One Indian State, Four Exhilarating Ways
Mike Herd, Investigations Editor, The Conversation: Here’s a story about an authoritarian leader of a global power who wants to bend the country in his image. He follows the populist
THIS YEAR marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India. I’ve never loved the novel, nor have I been able to let go of
Bassem Yousef, an Egyptian-American comedian, television host, and surgeon at the India Today Conclave 2024 labelled Israel a “typical narcissist” –by skillfully blending comedy with poignant criticism, directing his ire
Continue readingIndia Bans Bassem Yousef Speech. The Video Has Gone Viral.
Karan Thapar at The Wire interviews Namit Arora, the scriptwriter and anchor of the series on Indian history called ‘Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization’, which covers a sweep
Continue readingTalking Point: “Indian Civilization is an Idea But Also an Enigma”
Blast from the past: Gulzar pens a beautiful ode to Mehdi Hasan, and remembers Ahmed Faraz–it was written sometime in 2012) when he learnt that Mehdi Hasan has passed away.
Mohamed A. El-Erian and Nobel-winner Michael Spence at Project Syndicate: India’s recent economic success, solid momentum, and promising prospects are making the country ever more influential both regionally and internationally.
Mihir Dalal in Aeon: To understand Narendra Modi’s India, it is instructive to grasp the ideas of the Hindu Right’s greatest ideologue, the world of British colonial India in which
Modi’s economy also offers a ‘real alternative’ to China Excerpt of analysis by Diksha Madhok in CNN: India is said to be a prime candidate to benefit from the ‘friend-shoring’
Continue reading“India is (not) going back into the background anymore. It has arrived.”
پاکستان کے نامور شاعر اور دانشور ایک مثال دیتے ہیں کہ شاعری کس طرح ایک سوچ کو سمیٹ سکتی ہے
Ameen Sayani, 91, who achieved fame and popularity all across the Subcontinent, and became a household name with his signature ‘Behno aur Bhaiyo’ greeting while hosting the iconic radio program