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The Global Relevance of Indian Culture: BRICS 2026
The BRICS Summit being held in New Delhi comes at a time when the world is grappling with growing geopolitical tensions, wars, and global fragmentation. In such circumstances, the message of “Building for Resilience, Innovation,…
Bangladesh’s Deliberate Absence at Delhi’s BRICS Summit
Poonam Sharma
A Major SnubBangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has officially turned down the invitation to the upcoming BRICS summit in New Delhi, sparking a fresh round of speculation and diplomatic whispers. The 2026 summit, to…
The Need for Dialogue Across Generational Gaps
Change is the law of nature, and in accordance with this law, a change in the way of thinking is also a natural process. However, the decline of values, संस्कार (cultural and moral values), and ethical foundations among today’s younger…
Modi-Putin-Xi Handshake: The Picture That Tells All About India’s Diplomatic Confidence
Poonam Sharma
Sometimes international diplomacy is not spelled out in a long declaration but a few seconds of human interaction. This is just the kind of moment that the brief handshake between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian…
Needonomics Can Guide India’s Digital Journey Towards Viksit Bharat @2047: Prof. M.M. Goel
Palghar (Maharashtra) Sep.0 1, 2026- India’s journey towards Viksit Bharat @2047 must go beyond technological advancement and digital expansion to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI), innovation and digital transformation serve human…
Modi’s Diplomacy and India’s Growing Global Partnerships
~Alok Lahad
The New York Times, a newspaper long critical of Narendra Modi on questions of democracy, minorities and domestic politics, recently published a piece that many Indian readers found striking. Titled “Modi Is Hedging Against…
The Kanwariya, the Schoolchild and the Secular State
By Jyotika Kalra
A Government Administration may sometimes have good reasons to close the schools. A religious procession can clog roads, strain policing, and make the movement of children genuinely unsafe. But when the same administration…
Himalayan deluge: floods in Nepal-Tibet raise questions about transparency, warnings and…
Poonam Sharma
It was just another morning but a terrible cocktail of water, ice and rock came thundering down the Himalayas along the Nepal-Tibet border. Videos circulating online showed the devastation as the flood smashed into China’s…
From Spectrum to Personal Guarantees: Understanding India’s High-Profile Financial Scandals and What…
By Alok Lahad
The recent National Company Law Tribunal decision in the Subhash Chandra personal-guarantor case produced dramatic headlines: roughly ₹6.5 crore against admitted claims of more than ₹22,000 crore. Many readers saw another…
The ₹22,000 Crore “Haircut” That Isn’t: What the Subhash Chandra Case Really Means
By Alok Lahad
Over the past few days, headlines across Indian newspapers and television channels have screamed the same dramatic number: Essel Group founder and Zee promoter Subhash Chandra will pay just ₹6.5 crore against admitted…