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‘A guy who never dies’: Pam Bondi shoots Trump in the foot in Epstein saga

The US Department of Justice concluded that there is no incriminating Jeffrey Epstein client list, inferring there’s a list that’s not incriminating

Not America’s protégé: Rebutting Ashley Tellis’ US-India analysis

India of today is not a postcolonial appendage. A true India-US relationship must rest on mutual respect—not on expectations of alignment or veiled warnings of 'penalties'

Why Hamas, Hezbollah must face the same moral scrutiny as Israel

If aggressive Zionism crushes the Palestinian people, so do ideologies that undermine legitimate states, provide cover to terrorists, and give terror-sponsor countries a free pass

India and Maga-land: How Delhi can connect to America’s conservative heartland

By prioritising genuine, civilisational dialogue over transactional diplomacy, India can build enduring bridges with US’ conservative heartland

How Op Sindoor oversaw the trailer of China-Pakistan two-front threat

Beijing as a major player will prefer to remain invisible, and it is in this grey zone that India will witness greater Pakistan-China collusivity, which will get compounded in times to come

No country for migrants: How the world has fallen out of love with immigration

Even the once relatively migrant-friendly countries like Britain, Germany, Denmark, Canada, Australia, and, of course, that supposed cradle of the 'melting pot' revolution, the US, are turning hostile towards foreigners

How Israel is dominating West Asian dynamics

The West Asian strategic landscape, for generations, meant a balance-of-power game between affluent Gulf states, revolutionary Iran, and an isolated Israel. That arithmetic doesn't work anymore

Air India 171 crash: Why prematurely blaming pilots is reckless and unethical

Indian social media is abuzz with netizens calling out Western media for ‘biased’ reporting on the Air India flight crash report

How West is pushing Taliban into China-Russia axis

While the ICC has issued arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders, powers like Russia and China are actively courting the fundamentalist group

How China’s ideologues glorify the Uyghur genocide

The mass killings, cultural erasure, and brutal tactics of the 1950s are being celebrated as a model for how to govern East Turkistan today. This is not merely a message for domestic audiences, it is a signal to the world and a warning to those who remain silent

Operation Baam: How Baloch resistance is shifting from symbolism to strategy

The Balochistan Liberation Front’s operation was not symbolic or reactionary—it was surgical and strategic, demonstrating the growing maturity of the Baloch resistance against Pakistani domination, with vital support from local networks

Shadow Warrior | What’s driving Trump’s U-turns?

There has been a series of things that together show that President Donald Trump, despite all the bluster, is not that much in control

Dead pilots or corporate fat cat? Who’s to blame for Air India crash? The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Blaming dead pilots is the easiest thing to do for corporate fat cats, so that they may avoid pesky questions, regulatory scrutiny and evade being dragged to court for compensation. That shouldn’t deter the media from free and fair inquiry

Bagh Badshahi: Aurangzeb’s forgotten garden in Fatehpur district

The sound and fury of the 17th-century battle are long forgotten in the quiet town of Khajuha, but the garden laid out by the Mughal Emperor on the site still exists

BBC’s coverage of Air India crash: Old bias, new tragedy

British taxpayers fund the BBC’s anti-India narrative—when will it end?

Marx unmasked: How Karl Marx’s personal failings shaped a brutal, violent ideology

Understanding communism requires looking squarely at Marx himself. In him, we find the violent, exploitative, self-centred tendencies that would, under Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, erupt into horrors on a global scale

Why deterrence remains India’s best strategy against China

Deterrence works when the adversary believes that any aggression—even limited—will be met with swift, smart, and unrelenting retaliation. To achieve this, India must ensure that its forward-deployed forces are not just present but primed

Israel-Iran war: Netanyahu achieved a tactical victory but failed strategically

President Trump seems unwilling to venture beyond random one-off interventions to a more extended engagement in West Asia, fearing another 'forever war'. The Afghan and Iraq nightmares continue to haunt the US, and its morale seems low

How UNSC blew its credibility in the fight against terrorism

The UN Security Council’s decision to appoint Pakistan, the very nation that nurtured, protected, and empowered the Taliban, as chair of the Taliban Sanctions Committee is not merely ill-advised, but it is an act of self-sabotage

Weaponising victimhood: How Khalistanis, Islamists exploit the liberal West

It's a three-phase playbook: victimhood, demographic leverage, and ideological assertion, showing how emotive rights claims evolve into organised pressure and, eventually, open rejection of liberal norms

Deepening China-Iran ties pose a new challenge for India

India, for its part, must keep a watch on the Beijing-Tehran-Islamabad nexus, though West Asia will not be an easy sail for China either

Maldives: Is a reunified MDP a threat to President Muizzu’s second-term ambitions?

The main challenge to Mohamed Muizzu's bid for a second term as Maldivian president comes from a re-unified Maldivian Democratic Party, which has set aside internal divisions down to the grassroots level and is actively re-engaging neutral and swing voters