Results of the just concluded Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, and Puducherry underline a familiar truth of Indian politics: regional currents still overpower national narratives. Even where the SIR and...
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Until recently, the MEA traced its roots to 1783, to the Foreign Department whose quasi-diplomatic officers served British interests. But the IFS was formed in 1946 as an entirely independent entity with the ultimate aim of a unified and...
On the day we rst met, Romila Thapar was contemplating a loss. It had been less than two weeks since the death of her nephew, Valmik Thapar, a conservationist who was for decades the leading gure in the campaign to protect India’s tigers....
The West Bengal election result stunned everybody. Even the BJP did not expect to secure the two-thirds majority that it did. In many ways the 2026 Bengal Assembly election was one of the strangest elections to report on. Not only was it one of...
