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The writer is an independent security and political risk consultant.

For India, China has been a problem for decades, even at a time when the world was fawning on that country for its growing economic clout and seemingly unending supplies of cheap goods. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Panchsheel and other delusions that wrongfooted our...

The ensuing conflict between the world's two Asian powers seems destined to be a defining process for global geopolitics

4 Dec 2021 8:56 PM IST

Cover page of The Dalai Lama: A Remarkable Life

Book Review | How the Dalai Lama beat Communists by spreading the...

Author Alexander Norman's book traces the tragic sequence of events that marked the Dalai Lama's life

25 Sept 2021 11:18 PM IST

President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

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 Sept 2021 12:14 AM IST

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul. (Representational Photo:AFP)

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

3 Sept 2021 1:18 AM IST

One of the implications of climate change that has not received much attention is its impact on civilisations. Representational Image. (ANI)

Indranil Banerjie | A hotter, wetter planet to trigger new world...

This calamitous warning comes from the latest report released earlier this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on...

13 Aug 2021 2:52 AM IST

Thousands of Afghan women banned from public life during the Taliban days. Representational Image. (PTI)

Indranil Banerjie | Dark days loom for Afghans: Will Kabul die another...

After a bitter nine-year war, Mikhail Gorbachev finally pulled the plug on a conflict that had claimed thousands of...

18 July 2021 11:50 PM IST

Cover photo of Red Fort: Remembering the Magnificent Mughals by Debasish Das. (Twitter)

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,...

4 July 2021 3:25 AM IST

This is clearly a book that needs to be read over an extended period of time. (Photo: Goodreads)

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

6 Jun 2021 9:18 AM IST

Pakistans generals, who own and control the Taliban, want more than anything else to forcefully and completely eject all Indian presence from Afghanistan. (Photo: AFP)

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...

20 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Cover page of Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India

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

6 Dec 2020 9:16 AM IST

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event to name his economic team at the Queen Theater on December 1 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

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

2 Dec 2020 7:23 AM IST

The Indian economy continues to struggle with infrastructural issues. (DC Photo)

The corona disruption and the impact on India

Even higher rates of unemployment engendered by a pandemic could stoke political instability

23 March 2020 7:23 AM IST