Op-Eds Opinion
The University Grants Commission’s new “Promotion of Equity” regulations were projected as a corrective step to address caste discrimination on Indian campuses. Instead, they have exposed a far more uncomfortable truth about how the Indian state now defines equality. The controversy is not about whether caste discrimination exists. It does. The controversy is about who
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Cricket boards were created to run a sport, not to act as unofficial foreign ministries. Yet today, cricket is being dragged into political signalling so routinely that the line between governance and geopolitics is collapsing in plain sight. Two recent episodes make this impossible to ignore. Bangladesh’s refusal to tour India, without any ICC sanction […]
Op-Eds Opinion
Donald Trump’s recent remarks about the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro sounded bizarre on the surface. A “secret weapon” that made enemy systems simply stop working, rockets that would not launch, buttons that did nothing. Strip away the theatrics and the name-calling, and what remains is something far more serious: an open admission that […]
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Bangladesh’s textile shutdown threat is not just an industrial dispute or a trade policy misfire. It is the first visible crack in a deeper state failure. When an economy built around one sector begins to choke, politics does not stay neutral. Power shifts. Narratives harden. Street mobilisation replaces institutional debate. This is how countries slide, […]