1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into
The recent meeting of the Jammu and Kashmir political party National Conference at Dachigam was an atypical party meeting. This meeting was an important political manoeuvre to unify the party, reaffirm support
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With everything going on in the Middle East, Ukraine, the United States, and elsewhere, you could be forgiven for not thinking much about North Korea lately. But while we’ve all been looking
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Few developments since the Taliban’s return to power have been as surprising as India’s gradual re-emergence in Afghanistan. In 2021, most observers assumed Islamabad would be the principal beneficiary of the new
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The global order is entering a harder-edged phase of realism, in which power increasingly rests on the ability to compel rather than the authority to persuade. Across regions, calculations of immediate advantage
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The Iran–US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) emerged not from reconciliation, but from exhaustion and strategic failure by the United States and its allies. It was the product of a war that had
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The battle for socialist liberation in the twenty-first century cannot be fought with the weapons of the last century. In an era in which algorithms hold sway, in which the influence of
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Sheikh Hasina is no fascist, notwithstanding the deliberate attempts of some to portray her as such. Few political figures in contemporary South Asia have evoked such fierce passions, profound loyalties, and relentless
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Forty-two years after Operation Blue Star, the events of June 1984 remain among the most consequential and contested episodes in modern Indian history. What began as a military operation aimed at removing
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On June 18, 2026, Saif Ansari alias Rohit was arrested in Ranchi, Jharkhand, while Aman Ansari alias Golu and Sayam Sujan were arrested near Gajhandi Railway Station in the Koderma District of Jharkhand on June 17,
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On June 13, 2026, 33 Security Force (SF) personnel were killed in a coordinated guerrilla operation orchestrated by the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) at Naal town in the Khuzdar District of Balochistan.
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