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Who really owns India’s Covid disaster?

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media “As in so many of the pandemic’s worst-hit countries, this tragedy was avoidable — and is largely the fault of a boastful and incompetent government. Yet, judging by the fate...

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The Rihanna tweet and how we reacted

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media  “In a globally connected world we will have opinions on everything from Donald Trump to Black Lives Matter to the coup in Myanmar, and yes, the farmers’ protests in India....

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India, Russia and the Indo-Pacific: A Search for Congruence

India and Russia’s divergent outlooks appear to stem from the latter’s rejection of the Indo-Pacific construct in favour of Asia-Pacific  Rajorshi Roy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s recent uncharacteristic statement of “India being an object of the Western countries persistent,...

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The US after the “American carnage”

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media  “After the American carnage: New US President Joe Biden will need to heal and rebuild on so many fronts Democracy has indeed won – but barely. The violent insurrection by...

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India-Gulf relations: Looking beyond the pandemic

The return migration of the Indian expatriates is likely to have a serious short-to-medium term impact on the livelihood of all the Gulf returnees and their families  Md. Muddassir Quamar India’s relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, especially...

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Trump, impeachment and ban on social media

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media  “Beginning February last year Trump has unbendingly stuck to the line that Covid will simply go away and beginning November he has continuously claimed election victory. Such wild falsehoods put...

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Imran Khan and Pakistan’s enduring political crisis

The Pakistan prime minister keeps reiterating his promise to transform the country into a corruption-free Islamic welfare state. However, he has not taken any action against his own party members or government ministers accused or found guilty of corruption Nazir...

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Covid-19 and the perils of vaccine nationalism

Rajeesh Kumar Vaccine hoarding is likely to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic, and result in greater economic and social damage. Instead, a multilateral cooperative effort to vaccinate vulnerable people globally on a priority basis, is in every nations’ self-interest. India could...