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Sanjayovacha | New Delhi Needs To Reject Trump’s Donroe Doctrine | Sanjaya Baru

Sanjayovacha | New Delhi Needs To Reject Trump’s Donroe Doctrine |...

Given this history, it is not at all surprising that the United States is out to grab yet another oil-rich republic

5 Jan 2026 9:28 PM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | As Ladakh Boils, Statehood For J&K India’s Litmus Test

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | As Ladakh Boils, Statehood For J&K India’s...

The predecessors of today’s Ladakh’s population of 300,000 were part of the independent Jammu and Kashmir kingdom from...

16 Oct 2025 10:46 PM IST

Shashi Warrier | Adieu, Arkady Renko, Soviet Police Detective

Shashi Warrier | Adieu, Arkady Renko, Soviet Police Detective

Smith died in July, aged 82. Parkinson’s disease hadn’t stopped him writing: instead, he shared it with Arkady Renko,...

5 Oct 2025 12:34 AM IST

K.C. Singh | Trump Assaults UN, Targets All, Fuels Global Uncertainty

K.C. Singh | Trump Assaults UN, Targets All, Fuels Global Uncertainty

President Trump’s 56-minute address was meandering, critical of the dysfunctional UN escalator and teleprompter, besides...

26 Sept 2025 12:40 AM IST

Book Review | How Literature Rent The Iron Curtain

Book Review | How Literature Rent The Iron Curtain

Not only that, ideas have and continue to be used by governments and other powerful institutions to further their...

31 May 2025 1:57 PM IST

Aakar Patel | If China Overtakes US As World’s Most Powerful Economy, Will Shift Hit India?

Aakar Patel | If China Overtakes US As World’s Most Powerful Economy,...

From the outside, it can be seen as the struggle for global economic dominance between the West and Asia. Ordinarily we...

20 May 2025 1:24 AM IST

Soviet Venus Probe Falls to Earth After 53 Years in Orbit

Soviet Venus Probe Falls to Earth After 53 Years in Orbit

Kosmos 482 reenters atmosphere uncontrolled, likely crashes into Indian Ocean after half a century aloft

12 May 2025 10:44 AM IST

Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Yet remarkable and compelling as their stories may be, there is an unsteadiness to this juxtaposition, an awkwardness of...

19 April 2025 5:26 PM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After US, UK, EU; it’s time for India FTA with Russia

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After US, UK, EU; it’s time for India FTA...

Despite this, however, at the height of the Cold War, the United States, in a bid to drive a wedge between its main...

27 March 2025 11:58 PM IST

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. The downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon by a missile from an F-22 fighter jet created a spectacle over one of the states tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewildered gazing, distress and cheering. (Photo: AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Chinaâ€™s mystery balloons: Why was West...

The weeks-long recent drama over the mysterious Chinese balloons that were seen for several days floating over America,...

23 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo:PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Successors & rising stars: Cabinet rejig to reveal all

When I was posted in our embassy in Moscow in the era of the Soviet Union, one of the key preoccupations of diplomats...

8 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

Mikhail Gorbachev. (Photo: AP)

P.S. Raghavan | The man who brought down the Iron Curtain

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has frequently been quoted as saying that the breakup of the Soviet Union was...

2 Sept 2022 12:03 AM IST