How the world’s largest diasporaand a rising motherland rediscovered each other. On an evening this July, 30,000 people filled Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium to welcome Narendra Modi, with Australia’s …
Lakshmi Puri
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Russia, they name as a threat. China they call a strategic competitor. The question at Évian was how far the language for China had travelled, and where India now …
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He has proved a crisis manager par excellence. Only his steely resolve, courage and meticulous action could have carried 1.4 billion Indians through the once-in-a-century calamity of the pandemic …
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The Council must be made worth reforming, because the architecture taking shape outside it is worse than the architecture that has stalled within it.
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An Opposition divided on nearly every issue of national life suddenly rediscovered its unity for a single purpose, to keep Indian women out of one-third of their own …
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Today’s index architecture is the institutional expression owned, funded, and operated by institutions concentrated in the North Atlantic. The Global South has no equivalent institutional presence.
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There is an urgent need for a credible global regime for synthetic political content, cross border influence operations, and behavioural profiling of populations for political ends.
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Civilisations can survive as nostalgia. Civilisational states survive as operating systems.
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Prime Minister Modi draws inspiration not only from our goddesses but also from real-life ‘sheroes’ from all over India across the ages. He consistently weaves the legacies of …
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A word especially to our youth in India: let us learn not only to count our democratic blessings, but also own them, nurture them, safeguard them while abjuring …