Insight

Tehran, Moscow must walk the talk

Prabhu Chawla NEW DELHI: In the grand theatre of international relations, admiration is the cheapest currency diplomacy trades in. It...

Taiwan spectre

Sukumar Sah NEW DELHI: The world today is far more economically vulnerable to a Taiwan crisis than it was to...

Saffron Bengal needs Ram Rajya

Prabhu Chawla In the blazing midday sun on May 9, history did not merely turn a page at Kolkata’s Brigade...

The wrath of mothers

MJ Akbar On Sunday, May 3, word spread through the gossip arcades of social media that Calcutta’s markets had run...

Strategic bridge : BRICS is key platform for India-Russia cooperation

Sukumar Sah For decades, India-Russia relationship has rested on three pillars: defence cooperation, diplomatic trust and geopolitical convergence. But the...

Korea earns. India pays. Who dictates?

Prabhu Chawla There is a particular kind of perfidy that arrives dressed as fortuity. It arrives with ceremonial fanfare and...