This is India's strategic reality: two hostile continental fronts and a maritime frontier across the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the wider Indian Ocean Region. That geography demands a fleet structure that can be present on both seaboard when the nation needs it.

Pakistan, China and the sea between: Why India's third carrier is about geography, not pride

Critics argued that the Indian concept of time, cyclical and infinite, prevented long-term strategic planning. However, this criticism suffers from a blind spot, as it judges Indian strategy by foreign templates. 

Beyond foreign templates: Roots of Indian strategic culture

In honour of National Dog Day, let's have a look at the complex relationship between people and stray dogs in Delhi — especially in light of the Supreme Court of India's recent order(s) regarding the city's street dogs.

National Dog Day: Delhi's stray dogs caught between love and law | In Pics

Entertainment Adolescence has been on Netflix's top-most streamed shows list ever since it premiered on the OTT platform. People are calling it the best of TV. But is it?

No, Adolescence is not worth the hype. It's not that good!

“With great power comes great responsibility” The age-old saying has taken a modern twist. Our most sought-after new-age professionals, i.e., content creators and influencers, have finally come under the government's radar.

Endorsement Know-Hows: Decoding the future of Influencer led advertising and marketing

The capital of the United States, home of the government and an amazing number of armed teenagers, set a deplorable record last year: it became the city with the highest number of carjackings in the country per 100,000 residents.

Letter from Washington DC, city of insecurity and fear

Meet the other Taylor Swift – not the global music superstar but the combatant in a psychological warfare operation to keep former US president Donald Trump from winning the 2024 elections.

Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl – a tale of America’s alternative universe

Recently, I had a conversation with someone grappling with major depressive disorder (MDD). This person had consciously chosen to steer clear of both Instagram, which she branded as a cult of aesthetics, and X, which she completely dismissed as a mere megaphone for the uninformed.

How social media is leading us down toxic rabbit holes of endless scrolling

The BJP and the Shiv Sena are locked in a tussle over the chief minister's post, resulting in a stalemate in government formation in Maharashtra

Video Analysis: Sharad Pawar plays important role in Maharashtra government formation

After decades of close and harmonious relations, Big Business and the Republican Party and its most hard-line followers are fighting each other on some of the most sensitive fronts of America’s increasingly bizarre culture wars.

How Big Business ended up in the trenches of America’s culture wars

On November 12, 2011, the Arab League suspended the membership of Syria to punish the government of President Bashar al-Assad for cracking down on anti-government protestors with a brutality so savage it shocked even the members of a group with a poor record of concern for human rights.

How Syria’s Bashar al-Assad got away with murder

What happens when you throw a stone into a pond? It causes ripples that last a while, of course. Now, let us get philosophical and remember that the stone in question could be a burning piece of coal, a piece of hard rock, a crystal ball or a many-faceted diamond.

Dragon of Arabia: Why Saudi-Iran peace deserves two cheers, not three

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is, 'What does a woman want?

What do women want? A 10-point guide for all men out there

A missile landed in a Polish village near the Ukraine border, killing at least two people. Poland said it was likely caused by a stray Ukrainian air defence missile launched against a Russian barrage. Kiyv has denied it and requested access to the site of a deadly blast. But can the accident be seen as a major escalation amid the Russia-Ukraine war? Major General (Retd) Shashi Asthana explains it.

Video opinion: Can the missile strike in Poland be seen as a major escalation?

Democracy is our dharma, and elections are its festival. Indeed, who here has not witnessed the beauty of the “Indian election season”. Politicians burst like crackers on prime-time television debates Streets and Newspapers are filled with colourful campaigns and party symbols.

Rise of political consultancy firms revolutionising or undermining democracy?

India can certainly boast about having lower divorce rates in the world despite having the second largest population in the world after China. As per statistics, the divorce rate in India is lower than 1%.

Divorce insurance: What is it and why India needs it too?

From someone who spends most of her free time with dogs and raised and fostered a few of them, this is not advice but conversation. I haven't pursued any course in dog behaviour except listening to professionals and chewing the brains of other dog parents.

A letter to dog parents

The electoral outcome in Sweden suggests that it may be better aligned with today’s “New India” on the “right” path. Gone is the Sweden for long regarded as a moral superpower, a model of the “Third Way” and neutral between East-West blocs but firmly on the side of democracy, tolerance and inclusiveness.

WION Spotlight | Rising Might of Sweden’s Right

“China’s opening will continue. The Yellow River and the Yangtze River will not flow backwards." When Chinese premier Li Keqiang made this declaration during a visit to Shenzhen recently, it immediately set tongues wagging about the country's future.

Li comments unlikely to dent Xi juggernaut

As US lawmakers led by senator Ed Markey wrapped up the second US congressional delegation just weeks after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the Chinese daily 'Global Times' accused the US media of 'historical nihilism ' by distorting Taiwan's history.

China's salami-slicing tactics going wrong?

“I have nothing to hide. I have not used drugs and therefore I have no problem taking tests,” Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin said after a leaked video of her partying and dancing wildly with friends at a private event surfaced online and went viral.

Why are Finnish PM Sanna Marin’s party videos bothering you?

August 15th 2021 is a date which is etched in the memories of all Afghans across the world. It was a nightmare to witness the fall of the Afghan Republic and our flag - the symbol of our identity within the international community.

Afghanistan under Taliban: Narrated by an Afghan woman

It has been a turbulent year so far for Sri Lanka with the island states’ worst fears being realised. The present economic crisis was in the making for a few years owing to Sri Lanka’s bad political decisions and policies, ill-effects of over-centralisation of leadership even at the cost of weakening of democratic institutions, deficient future economic planning, opportunism of lender countries like China.

Sri Lanka at crossroads; how should India react?

In the year 1991, a relatively new Congresswoman from California, Nancy Pelosi stunned the Chinese authorities when she spread out a banner in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square dedicated to the pro-democracy student activists massacred there.

Nancy Pelosi’s expected Taiwan trip and her ‘hate-hate’ relationship with Beijing

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