BY: Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein Most conversations about Kashmir focus on the tensions between India and Pakistan and the seemingly intransigent dispute between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. What is often...

BY: Kapil Sibal The BJP-PDP alliance was untenable at birth. Their ideological predilections were as far apart as the North Pole from the South Pole. When stitching the alliance, Narendra...

BY: Bill Law Hope is a commodity in short supply but there are signs that in the Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain, hope for an end to political stalemate between...

By: Sankarshan Thakur Sometimes you look out the window and you do not wish to see what you see. For a while now, that has been predominantly the case, you...

By: Dr Sohail Nasti Sri Lanka, the picturesque tear-drop shaped island in the Indian ocean, like several areas in the world which have been hit by conflict, struggles with emerging...

By:  Shahjhan Mustafa Turkey held presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, 2018 constitutional amendments gave the President absolute powers. These include the power to issue decrees with the force...

By: Zoya Hasan The recurring incidents of lynching and targeted mob violence against vulnerable groups reported from various parts of the country are a direct challenge thrown by right-wing groups...

By: Christophe Jaffrelot Years ago, the late Ravinder Kumar, then Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, defined India as a civilisation-state, rather than a nation-state, because of its...

By: Sandeep Bhardwaj The Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to break its alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and plunge Jammu and Kashmir into political chaos comes as a climax...

By: Happymon Jacob The alliance between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) began as an act of necessity, persisted due...