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Biden's approval ratings are sliding steeply south
It was only this January that Donald Trump’s trapeze act through the White House came to an undignified end, as if someone had snipped...
Oct 31, 20213 min read


Shame China without naming it?
Quadrilaterals are generally irregular; the only regular quadrilateral, a square, has all its sides, and all its angles, equal. As in...
Sep 25, 20213 min read


Taliban’s return is the next act of an unending Afghan tragedy
THE NEW GREAT GAME “Now I shall go far and far into the north, playing the Great Game….” —Rudyard Kipling (Kim, 1901) THE EPITHET OF the...
Sep 6, 20216 min read


The many moods of Krishna Menon
Aldwych Street sits like an old-fashioned geometry D on London’s Strand. Down this crescent, the Indian tricolour flutters from its...
Sep 5, 20213 min read


Destroy space to save the earth?
Boys, it is said, will be boys. Not so long ago, Donald Trump boasted to Kim Jong-un that his nuclear button was bigger and more powerful...
Aug 8, 20213 min read


U.S. and India both want to ensure stability in Afghanistan
The United States and India have a shared interest in Afghanistan — and neither side wants the Taliban to take control of the country by...
Jul 29, 20213 min read


We have no uniform system of public library administration
Development, as it is sometimes interpreted, took a hit in Patna recently. The planned route of a flyover was changed to avoid...
Jul 3, 20213 min read


बाइडेन-पुतिन मुलाकात के बावजूद अनिश्चित हैं अमेरिका-रूस संबंध
पहले किसी को सोललेस किलर यानी निर्मम हत्यारा कहना और फिर उसके साथ चार घंटे बैठकर बातें करना आसान नहीं हो सकता, लेकिन अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति...
Jul 1, 20215 min read


US-Russia Ties May Still Be Uncertain Despite Biden-Putin Meet
It couldn’t be easy to call someone a soulless killer and then sit down with him for a four-hour chat. But that’s exactly what President...
Jun 21, 20214 min read
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