January 2021

(First published on June 27, 2020) Storytelling is no rocket science. Creativity is not the name of a fruit that […]

(First published on June 20th, 2020)Unchecked renegade ideologies can prove expensive. Usually called into existence by political expediency to meet

(First published on June 13th, 2020) By the time these lines reach you the federal budget for the fiscal year

(First published on June 6th, 2020) Those who have known pain and loss intimately do not take pleasure in another

(First published on May 30th, 2020) What happens if China and India go to war? Who wins and who loses

(First published on May 23rd, 2020) Covid-19 has badly shaken our world. You cannot name a single walk of life

(First published on May 16, 2020) Deconstruct this. The authorities are gradually relaxing the lockdown restrictions. This was to be

(First published on May 09, 2020) Pakistan is not the first country that comes to mind when you discuss Covid-19.

(First published on May 2nd, 2020) The First World War was raging when the German authorities struck gold in a

(First published on April 25th, 2020) Democracy around the world is in turmoil. The ongoing turbulence can be attributed to

(First published on April 18th, 2020) During the lockdown, mostly cooped up in the house, I finally managed to finish

(First published on April 11th, 2020) Crises bring out the best and the worst among us. The ongoing double whammy

(First published on April 4th, 2020) Mankind is failing. On the face of it, a microscopic bug has brought it

(First published on March 28th, 2020) The novel coronavirus outbreak threatens to permanently alter the way we live. With the

(First published on March 21st, 2020) As the United States was bracing itself for an impact and the US President

(First published on March 14, 2020) Have you ever seen anything that threatens to destroy the fabric of every society

(First published on March 7th, 2020) Russia’s powerful President Vladimir Putin recently gave an annual state of the nation address.

(First published on February 29th, 2020) It is official. India has arrived at the worst place possible in its history.

(First published on February 22, 2020) President Donald Trump’s upcoming India visit is an unparalleled feat of remarkable optics and

(First published on February 15, 2020) Roughly two years ago in this space, I quoted Francis Fukuyama’s three-step definition of

(First published on February 08, 2020) Tired of politics? Let’s talk about something better. As the country signs one FTA

(First published on February 01, 2020) After being totally irrelevant for the past three years, the Palestinians are being mentioned

(First published on January 25, 2020) As world leaders and business leaders met at Davos, international media seemed consumed particularly

(First published on January 18, 2020) When terrorists killed innocent children in 2014 it was as if a dam had

(First published on January 11th, 2020) This is a moment as good as any to pause and reflect. The world

(First published on January 4th, 2020) India has a new army chief. Well, sort of. Are you an army chief

(First published on December 28th, 2019) India seems to have woken up. It took a deeply vile regime’s repeated efforts

(First published on December 21st, 2019) Two controversies raised their heads this week. One legal. The other diplomatic. You have

(First published on December 14th, 2019) Democracy is on trial around the world. Literally. President Donald Trump faces a bruising

(First published on December 07, 2019) On Tuesday, December 3, the tech world was rocked by an interesting news. Google’s