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India-Pakistan Ceasefire Agreement 2021 Can it last
Harsh Mahaseth and Ananya Shukla In recent years, the Kashmir area straddling India and Pakistan has seen nearly 2,000 violations of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA)...
Why the BJP failed to consolidate Hindu votes in West Bengal
KOLKATA: Though the BJP has increased its tally in the West Bengal Assembly from three in 2016 to 77 in 2021 - a substantial...
Russia-US rapprochement
Asad Mirza The recent announcement by the White House sources that US President Joe Biden has proposed that he and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin...
Modi visit to Bangladesh A new turn to South Asia's complex geopolitics
Dr. Indu Saxena India and Bangladesh's "360-degree partnership" could be a potent power diplomacy to change the South Asian security dynamics with economic boost by...
Most Hindus not aware of Hindu massacres and ethnic cleansing
Purnima Nath WHY? Let me elaborate. The number of zeroes will shock you, an early warning. However, I will deliberately bombard you with some zeroes. Bear...
Will Bengal Rise like a Phoenix now
Partha P. Dasgupta  “There’s always hope.” These eternal words have rung true through the ages, forming the bedrock of the very strands that keep a society going. With that credence firmly...
Reimagining diplomacy in the Post-COVID World An Indian perspective
S Jaishankar We enter 2021, hoping to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us. While each society has dealt with it uniquely, global diplomacy will nevertheless...
Biden presidency will see a more collaborative Indo-US relationship
Frank Islam Under the current secretary of state, Antony Blinken, the US is more likely to play the role of a firefighter, rather than that...
SL serves kick-in-teeth for Imran
Amjad Ayub Mirza Pakistan’s Prime minister Imran Khans attempt to bluff his way into appeasing the Sri Lanka government and her people during his two-day...
India needs a more assertive policy on Tibet to counter China
Pradeep S. Mehta and Jithin Sabu The India-China relationship is one of the most complex ones in the world. It is also quite dynamic and...