Putin is not an accidental autocrat and a historian explains why

The Gandhis have eggs on their faces, while the Rajasthan chief minister holds all the cards

The Commonwealth has little value for India

Iran’s youth have been reeling under an economy marred by decades of US sanctions, corruption and the pandemic. The attempts to tighten the noose on social freedoms and the state’s heavy-handedness have therefore invited an almost instant and massive pushback

As seen in the controversy roiling the chess world

The new CDS will have to deliver on military reforms

Is it an impulse of talent or a lack of work ethic?

The BJP leadership has had its way and will continue to call the shots when it comes to the party

The sense of a beginning

Congress wants a regent, a placeholder for Rahul Gandhi. But who can combine political sagacity with a saintly heart? Ashok Gehlot, the loyal one, has weakened Sonia Gandhi at a vulnerable moment. If she relents, the aura of command gets blown apart. Congress has become a puzzled jigsaw rather than a jigsaw puzzle, a combination of small cardboard pieces that no longer add up to a coherent picture

In a new biography of Ambedkar, Shashi Tharoor gets a measure of the constitutionalist and nation-builder, contending that an honest survey of Ambedkar’s life and its impact needs to also look at those faults for which he can be legitimately criticised without taking away from his greatness