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August 24, 2024 Are magic and espionage kindred arts? Former Deputy Director of the CIA John McLaughlin thinks as much.

August 17, 2024 Policymakers around the world gravitate towards making one-size-fits-all policies. Through effective altruism, this approach has also found

August 10, 2024 Bangladesh’s simmering crisis and the ongoing transition have thrown many pundits off balance. This was to be

August 03, 2024 Murphy’s law is an epigram or adage which states that anything that can go wrong will go

July 27, 2024 Could you believe it? For nearly 36 hours last week, I was a Trump supporter. Then, I

July 20, 2024 America dodged a bullet last Saturday. Trump is not America. But had his would-be assassin succeeded, America

July 13, 2024 Are you tired of reading an endless supply of articles bemoaning the alleged dystopian reality we live

July 06, 2024 Hidden away on a small street off Regent Street near Oxford Circus in today’s London, there is

June 29, 2024 Two old men (one 82, other 78 — if I say boomers, Bill Maher may take offence)

June 22, 2024 One privilege of writing for as long as I have is that when you mention a book

June 15, 2024 Where globalisation of thought on the internet has made the evolution of ideas easier, the nature of

June 08, 2024 They say there are two tragedies in life. Not to get your heart’s desire. And to get

June 01, 2024 Absolutely Anything is a 2015 science fiction fantasy comedy film in which all living members of the

May 25, 2024 Today marks the penultimate round of voting in the sprawling Indian election. The final round will take

May 11, 2024 The widespread suspicion that everything is controlled in the country poses a serious challenge to the integrity

May 11, 2024 India is a big country. It is the world’s most populous nation. It has five thousand years

May 04, 2024 Celebrated Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder knew the art of immersive storytelling. Aag ka Darya (river of fire),

April 27, 2024 In case you are wondering about the title, it is a direct quote from an Indian campaign

April 20, 2024 Two big stories. One dutifully ignored by our electronic media. The other magnified to a terrifying extent.

April 13, 2024 There is something fascinating about the electoral process that has always excited this scribe. If democracy is

April 06, 2024 Despite your valiant efforts to stay clear of the subject, Indian elections, being the world’s biggest exercise

March 30, 2024 Netflix’s rendition of Cixin Liu’s brilliant work, 3 Body Problem, just dropped. It is as good as

March 23, 2024 Diwaar kya giri meray khasta makan ki Logon ne mere sehn mein rastay bana liye (The wall

March 16, 2024 In Denis E Taylor’s sci-fi trilogy, which is now known as the Bobiverse, a von Neumann probe,

March 09, 2024 The US Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the state of Colorado (or for that matter any

March 02, 2024 On the face of it, it was a simple question. Why do fanatics usually lose in the

February 24, 2024 Pakistan has produced many lost decades. It is difficult for a country like Pakistan not to look

February 17, 2024 Times of India, January 24, 2024: “Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav finds himself in the news

February 10, 2024 While pundits and media obsess about the politics of the immediate, let us take a deep dive