by Luxman Aravind Rajapaksas are in trouble. As our columnist Durga Velayudham noted in yesterday’s column, a confrontation is unfolding between politically motivated Buddhist monk groups and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP),
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand are best understood not as three separate bilateral engagements but as a carefully sequenced strategic mission across the Indo-Pacific. Coming immediately
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There was no one in the room at all, no one except the stillness that had taken up the space, that had settled on it like a jackhammer. In the middle of
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The transformative phase of politics in Kerala shifting away from ideological paradigms surged with the announcement by the state BJP President Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday that Thiruvananthapuram would be home to one of
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After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, two concepts entered common political usage, the “war of necessity” and the “war of choice.” The first meant territorial defense and national survival and the second, a war
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Over the last several hundred years, different forms of governance have evolved, including democracy, communism, feudalism, dictatorship, military rule, and totalitarian governance. While, based on past experience, merits and demerits have been
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The Islamic State (ISIS) has maintained a low-level insurgency and a terrorist campaign in Syria. Conducting frequent asymmetric operations, the most recent incident is the Damascus Cafe Bombing on July 2, 2026. At least
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On 6 July 2026, as millions of black-clad mourners pour into the streets of Tehran to bid farewell to the Islamic Republic’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, they will not be looking
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent declaration that Israel must eventually free itself from dependence on American military aid sounded, at first glance, like an assertion of national self-confidence. Nations, after all, prefer autonomy to
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Politics is often shaped not merely by institutions or elections, but by the indomitable will of individuals who refuse to surrender to the verdict of adversity. Throughout history, certain leaders have transformed
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India and Pakistan relations have been strained following the Pahalgam terror attack since 2025. The incident brought the two South Asian nations to the brink of large-scale war and resulted in a
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The coming months could bring South Asia and the wider On a humid June evening in Washington, five elderly gentlemen stood quietly beyond the White House gates, watching crowds gather beneath floodlights
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Neoliberalism, better understood by its less sanitized term cutthroat capitalism, is the poison that destroyed our democracy. It gave the billionaire class and corporations theideological cover to impoverish the working class, impose
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On 24 June, Venezuela was celebrating two important holidays: the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo, the battle that sealed the country’s independence, and the feast of St. John the Baptist,
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In 1965, Herman Kahn drew his famous escalation ladder, a 44-rung scale ranging from ostensible crisis to spasm war. It accounted for surgical strikes, nuclear signaling and targeting of cities. It did
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Yulia Shapovalova, Moscow correspondent for Al Jazeera, reports that Pusillinamous Putin’s ever-widening war has, as I said it would, expanded deep into Russia far from the Donbas battlefield. Shapovalova reports “The crisis is deep,” as civilian
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