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Indranil Banerjie
Book Review | How the Dalai Lama beat Communists by spreading the Dharma
Author Alexander Norman’s book traces the tragic sequence of events that marked the Dalai Lama’s life
25 Sep 2021 11:18 PM
Indranil Banerjie | Europe needs rethink as Atlantic divide widening
The French received no hint the deal was about to be broken and put the blame squarely on the United States
23 Sep 2021 12:14 AM
Indranil Banerjie | Is fall of Kabul a Humpty Dumpty moment for US?
President Biden’s address to the American people suggested a lack of geopolitical sapience
03 Sep 2021 1:18 AM
Indranil Banerjie | A hotter, wetter planet to trigger new world order?
This calamitous warning comes from the latest report released earlier this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
13 Aug 2021 2:52 AM
Indranil Banerjie | Dark days loom for Afghans: Will Kabul die another day?
After a bitter nine-year war, Mikhail Gorbachev finally pulled the plug on a conflict that had claimed thousands of Afghan and Soviet lives
18 Jul 2021 11:50 PM
Book Review | Resurrecting, in mind’s eye, a living Red Fort
While much of the book and its many short sections tend to be somewhat disjointed and faltering, as we approach the end, things change
04 Jul 2021 3:25 AM
Book Review | Hobsbawm’s choice: When logic rejects nationalism...
Britain’s best-known historian, Eric Hobsbawm, traverses a similar path in his writings on Nationalism
06 Jun 2021 9:18 AM
Indranil Banerjie | US Afghan exit a pyrrhic victory for Pak generals?
The last time the Taliban had taken over Afghanistan, 26 years ago, India’s historical presence in Afghanistan was forced to abruptly end
20 Apr 2021 12:00 AM
Book REVIEW | The good doctor’s submissions
The book’s many, well-researched papers dealt with the larger issue of the state of healthcare in India
06 Dec 2020 9:16 AM
Indranil Banerjie | Are America’s days over as world’s moral arbiter?
The bitter and highly polarised November 2020 election was watched with disbelief and distaste across the world
02 Dec 2020 7:23 AM
The corona disruption and the impact on India
Even higher rates of unemployment engendered by a pandemic could stoke political instability
23 Mar 2020 7:23 AM
Trump is on a roll now, India needs to cash in
President Trump’s victory in the Senate trial was a foregone conclusion with its Republican majority standing firm behind their leader.
08 Feb 2020 3:06 AM
Regulating the Internet: A darogha is a total misfit
Section 144 of the Indian Criminal Procedure Code is one such instrument used to lock down a potentially troublesome situation.
29 Jan 2020 2:33 AM
Asiatic Society’s 2019 Reprints: Looking back at a glorious past
The meticulous translations of Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tibetan and other works opened up India’s past to the rest of the world.
17 Jan 2020 2:14 AM
Now or later, talks the only way out for J&K
What might have lulled many in New Delhi into complacency is the relative calm in the Valley.
13 Jan 2020 12:37 AM
Students on front lines: What protests portend
Whatever the view, the fact is that India’s youth, particularly the student population, is restive and in the mood for rebellion.
02 Jan 2020 1:38 AM
That magnificent man in his flying machines
MiG-27: “The MiG-27 was a ground attack fighter bomber with supersonic capability. It was a large and heavy aircraft as fighters go.
20 Dec 2019 1:22 AM
As climate crisis grows, all of us should act now
The efforts of governments, corporations and individuals are just not enough to slow down, leave alone reverse, the trends in global warming.
10 Dec 2019 1:37 AM
Impeaching Trump: Politics will prevail
The details of the charges and counter-charges are complicated and open up a window to a very different set of issues.
23 Nov 2019 2:28 AM
What keeps ties between US and Pakistan ticking
The US decision to make Pakistan an ally and stand by it no matter what has often hurt India.
22 Nov 2019 1:26 AM
Columns
Omicron is the fifth such VOC, and the first since the Delta (B.1.617) variant which ravaged so many countries
The Supreme Court has ruled that successful UPSC aspirants do not have the right to be allocated the cadre of their choice
In terms of their Human Development Index, India is ranked 133rd in the world, Bangladesh at 135th and Pakistan at 154th
The Kumbakonam Mutt was established in 1821 by the Maratha king of Tanjore, Pratap Singh Tuljaji, as a branch of the Sringeri Mutt