DOHA FORUM 2022 Doha Forum 2022: U.S. position on Ukraine fails to find takers K.P. FabianAt the Doha Forum 2022 held in March, the U.S. position on Ukraine did not find much favour with audiences and there was also the realisation that rat
Russia-Ukraine Ukraine conflict: Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky responsible for crisis K.P. FabianPresidents Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky should urgently find a way out of the crisis they are responsible for. If these three men
Russia-Ukraine Operation Ganga: The botched-up evacuation of Indian students from UkraineK.P. Fabian Unlike the historic Kuwait airlift of 1990, which was a study in efficiency, the Narendra Modi government’s evacuation of Indian students from Ukrai
Book Review Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition K.P. FabianThis book is a significant addition to contemporary history and should be read by anyone who wants to understand the circumstances of the partition of
Book Review Book Review: Amartya Sen’s memoir 'Home in the World' is a discussion of memories and ideas K.P. FabianAmartya Sen’s memoir is not a chronological story of his life; it discusses ideas and emphasises the importance of public reasoning in decision-maki
Book Review Book Review: Dinkar P. Srivastava's "Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control" sheds light on PoKK.P. FabianThis book fills an important gap in scholarship on the history and current state of the portion of Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan illegally oc
Book Review Book Review: On Sikkim, India’s 22nd StateK.P. FabianThe book, which brings out many little-known facts, is a valuable addition to the rather small number of books on Sikkim’s history and how it became
Afghanistan How the West bungled in AfghanistanK.P. FabianThe composition of the caretaker Taliban government, which has no representation of either Shia Hazaras or women, has come in for much international c
U.S. policy & Afghanistan Afghanistan’s chequered historyK.P. FabianWhat has happened in Afghanistan can be traced to the United States’ ‘muscular’ foreign policy after the Cold War and the floundering global war
Book Review Book Review: M. Hamid Ansari's "By Many a Happy Accident" is more than just an autobiographyK.P. FabianFormer Vice President M. Hamid Ansari’s autobiography is more than just memoirs: it consists of reflections of a multifaceted personality and record
COVER STORY Israel’s impunity, U.S.’ complicity K.P. FabianPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resorts to military operations in Gaza with U.S. support to hold on to power and mow down Hamas as it is the only fo
Book Review: Ishtiaq Ahmed's "Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History" attempts to understand Partition K.P. FABIANThis book is not a biography or even an account of what M.A. Jinnah the politician did or did not do. It is an attempt at historical reasoning by a po
Elon Musk and the culture of greed pride If we take seriously the premise that cinema is reflective of the times it is embedded in, then the sudden expression of money and luxury as heroic en
SlideshowSri Lanka: The stranded stateSri Lanka has faced a series of misfortunes—the wrath of a 26-year-long civil war, a devastating tsunami, the Easter bombings of 2018, the spread of
