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SITI Odisha: From Planning to Transformation
When institutions change, the direction of a state often changes with them. Odisha’s decision to replace its legacy Planning Board with the State Institute for Transformative Initiatives (SITI) is...
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Regulating Foreign Funds: A Necessary Tightrope Walk
The proposed Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, reflects the Indian government’s continuing effort to tighten oversight of...
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“The most powerful nation is the one that never abandons its soldiers.”
The story from that cold evening in 1997, when Bill Clinton stopped his motorcade to sit beside a...
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Past Lessons, Future Risks: The Iran Ceasefire and the Shifting Balance of Power
The two week US-Iran ceasefire expires on 22 Apr. It was more of a tactical pause than a...
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US–China Rivalry and the Thucydides Trap
2,400 years ago, when Thucydides wrote that “it was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this...
Pope Francis’s India Visit: Strengthening of India-Vatican Relations
Yesterday, Pope Francis global religious leader of the Roman Catholic faith said that he is planning to visit India in 2024 and is also...
BBC – China Connection: Huawei the Story Works!
BBC recently ran into controversy in India over its two-part documentary 'India: The Modi Question" on the role of then Chief Minister of Gujarat...
Mhadei River is not a political water tank for political leaders to decide on who gets water or not
Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his rally in Belgavi on January 28 made a shocking and terribly disappointing statement on the current controversial...
This is not Godse’s India, neither should it be Gandhi’s idea of India
"If I am to die by the bullet of a madman, I must do so smiling. God must be in my heart and on...
India has become immune to the White Sahib’s virus ‘BBC’
I have always considered the 'White Sahib' to be the epitome of condescension. By the 'White Sahib', I mean the colonizers. In their eyes, Indians...
Who is Manohar? India knows Manohar Parrikar!
In a shocking and disappointing stand which is bereft of any logic, the Chief Minister of Goa Dr Pramod Sawant, who shall be referred...





