Modern India has abolished terrible practices such as female infanticide, sati and stoning to death for adultery, and created a uniform criminal law. Why not a uniform civil law then too? As a secular fundamentalist, I welcome Prime Minister Modi’s […]
India needs UCC but it can’t be rushed through Read More »
What would India and the U.S. get out of a stronger relationship? Is that even likely? Cato’s Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar comments.
Mr. Modi Goes to Washington Read More »
Operational flexibility makes more sense in a multipolar world that will one day accept India as a pole in its own right. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first to say India and the US were natural allies. Narendra Modi has
What Modi’s visit means for India-US ties Read More »
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the United States for a state visit that is expected to highlight India’s importance as a rising economic and military power, and the only country in Asia that can be a counter to China in the
Modi’s India Is Better in Economics than History Read More »
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promotes its Hindu nationalist agenda by claiming that India was the world’s richest region under glorious Hindu rule for thousands of years before being conquered by Muslim invaders in the 11th century and British
Indian Nationalism and the Historical Fantasy of a Golden Hindu Period Read More »
Hong Kong billionaire, 75-year-old Jimmy Lai is behind bars for demanding that China honour Deng Xiaoping’s pledge of ‘one country, two systems’ which it promised Britain when it took over the colony in 1997 I am a journalist, so you
China vs Jimmy Lai: Why the tycoon deserves a Nobel prize Read More »
In India, industry’s share of jobs (25%) is actually higher than in Bangladesh (22%) or Indonesia (22%), and not much lower than in China (28%). Of course we would love to have a still higher share, but you cannot say
View: Surprise! The notion that India has somehow failed in industry is just not true Read More »
Kala azar cases have crashed 98.7% — from 44,533 in 2007 to just 834 in 2022 — but completing the last mile has proved difficult Covid and malaria affect the rich and poor alike and so make headlines. Many readers may not
End of kala azar near but let’s not cheer yet Read More »
The BJP fielded 391 Muslim candidates in the UP municipal polls and 61 of them won. This successful experiment may become part of the BJP’s strategy for the 2024 general election. For me, the most unexpected change in the ninth
What the success of BJP’s Pasmanda strategy means Read More »
When the US, which is at the very forefront of anti-Russian sanctions, is okay buying diesel from India, why is the EU objecting? Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, complains that Indian refiners
From Russia or not, India has a right to export refined fuel Read More »
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