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Patriotism and protest: The Gaza dilemma in India
Alice, if she had wandered into our wonderland, would have found things getting “curiouser and curiouser”, particularly at the Honourable...
Aug 33 min read


Tuvalu: A sinking island nation
These are times when the mind struggles to make sense of things. The old measures are discarded, and the new ones unacceptable. Humanity...
Jul 133 min read


Mark Carney's Trump card
Sharks famously circle their prey, waiting for the right moment to move in for the kill. Landsharks do the same, circling the piece of...
Jun 153 min read


Climate change is upon us; not just a looming threat
It’s as if 17 years have not passed: I recall clearly the day when I first drove up Israel’s Route 1 from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem past...
May 183 min read


How the famed secret agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped the Soviet Union and certain death
When posted to Moscow as young diplomats in the early 1980s, we were warned, by gruff men in dark glasses, against the famed KGB...
Apr 203 min read


International rules of engagement in diplomacy are no longer sacrosanct
Several narratives have emerged from the Donald Trump-Volodymyr Zelensky-J.D. Vance dust-up in the Oval office, the most disturbing being...
Mar 233 min read


Gaza: Home is not a building
Good morning, Gaza Get up, drink my coffee and rise. Our funeral has arrived—Mahmoud Darwish. The two-state solution to the...
Feb 233 min read


Why Donald Trump covets Greenland
There’s no denying it. Donald Trump is a prince among real estate developers, known for his pushy, winner-takes-all approach. Trump...
Jan 263 min read


Good fences make good neighbours
When fences erode, or nobody is at home, neighbours tend to take advantage. A nibble at a patch of land, a fence post pushed a yard away,...
Dec 22, 20243 min read
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