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By Anjan Roy As the 2018 World Cup Games were kicked off at the Luzniki Stadium in Moscow, the enthusiasm for football is slowly working into a frenzy. For India, there is an irony in all this. It is not playing in the World Cup as it does...
By Subrata Majumder Chinese media were euphoric that the 18th Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held in Qingdao, China, where India and Pakistan were admitted as new members of the organization, will open a new page for better relations between the two countries. Chinese newspaper Global Times...
By Sushil Kutty Lessons from around the world. One of them that anyone who marries Imran Khan can expect to be ex-spouse. Second: Imran Khan swings both ways. Third: Trump’s marriage with Kim is vague. Four: War-games are like bedroom-games. They provoke, help balance the balance! Post...
By Sankar Ray Twenty-five years ago, as grapevine had it, when the then general secretary of Communist Party of India Indrajit Gupta was reportedly approached to write a forward for the first comprehensive English version of Karl Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts from the Russian text, the CPI leader declined...
By C.J. Atkins It was no Reagan-Gorbachev moment, nor was it some earth-shaking leap toward permanent peace. But contrary to what you might be hearing or reading, the Trump-Kim summit did achieve some net positives…or, at least, potential ones. Many liberal commentators and media personalities are so eager...
Aditya Aamir Jocko Street was packing his bag, bought from Dubai Mall along with a Gillette shaving kit and a Swiss pocketknife. He bent to task with concentration only he could command. An extra pair of washed jeans, a couple of shirts, four t-shirts, a set of underwear and...
By Sushil Kutty Those who say Modi and Shah failed big-time in post-poll machinations in Karnataka wait! Post-government formation, trouble is dogging the ruling Congress-Janata Dal (S) alliance. The slip is showing. The ladders on the Congress-JD (S) stockings are unravelling. Like silk usually does under stress. ...
By Amulya Ganguli Congress leader Jairam Ramesh says that one unfortuate fallout of the Emergency was to bring the RSS into the national mainstream via its fraternal outfit, the Jan Sangh, the BJP’s predecessor, which resisted Indira Gandhi’s draconian rule and later merged into the ruling Janata Party....
By Nitya Chakraborty Only a month has passed since the results of the Karnataka assembly elections were out on May 12, but for the Congress Party, this has been the period of great learning about the dynamics of coalition politics. Congress led by Rahul Gandhi has become...
By Sushil Kutty The summit of the century and all over the world it’s ‘We are live in Singapore’, TV news channels streaming pictures of Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump. Images of Kim and Trump shaking hands and sitting side by side, priceless additions to the world...