National Interest

India's declared strikes have questioned the sanctity of the LoC, raised the nuclear threshold and redefined strategic restraint

Modi has debunked uncontested old wisdom that foreign and strategic policy must follow broad national consensus despite change in governments.

India's bane is our easy embrace of mediocrity — from academia and science to business and military power. Sport is an apt metaphor.

Irom Sharmila without tubes is of no use to those who built careers around her. But she realised an activist alive was better for her cause than a dead one.

Indian and Pakistan have both followed a consistent policy of talk-talk, fight-fight since the Kashmir insurgency began in 1989. By invoking Balochistan and northern areas, Modi has changed it to 'you mess with our soft underbelly, we will mess with your most vulnerable region.

Nitish Kumar confirms the rising phenomenon of maximum populism in Indian politics — a consensus paving the road to disaster.

There is scientific evidence now to show how caste has acquired clear racist characteristics and it is cause for alarm.

Why BJP can't realize its dream of uniting with culture (Hindutva) what sociology (caste) divided.

If Narendra Modi's worldview is truly at variance with Nehru's, we are still looking for evidence, at least on economic and foreign policies. 

Post assembly-polls, Narendra Modi should not miss the opportunity to change course and discourse, from combat to governance.