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A year after Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution, a parched summer looms ahead

Praveen Swami - July 27, 2025

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Pakistani accomplices, shootouts, sealed chargesheet—how the 7/11 blasts case fell apart

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

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Martyrs’ Day row has reopened Kashmir’s deepest wounds

Indira Gandhi’s ‘Hinduism in danger’ to Karnataka hijab row — This is what jihadists want

Praveen Swami - February 13, 2022

Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have shown what happens to nations that can’t manage ethnic or religious tensions.

Baloch grievances need political action. History shows insurgency can’t be killed with force

Praveen Swami - February 9, 2022

Like a bad dream, the ghosts of Aslam Baloch's slain insurgents resurfaced this week and stormed Pakistani military outposts in Panjgur and Noshki.

Islamic State leader’s death being cast as a milestone against terrorism. Truth is muddier

Praveen Swami - February 6, 2022

Celebrating ISIS leader’s death in US raid as big victory ignores past experience.

Pegasus scandal shows how lawless India’s ‘lawful interception’ has become

Praveen Swami - February 2, 2022

Many democracies understand the need for lawful surveillance against serious crimes. Few provide the executive such sweeping powers like India does.

Don’t just look at defence budget. India’s intelligence services, police desperately need funds

Praveen Swami - January 30, 2022

India’s only security challenge isn’t on the LAC. There’s chronic anaemia in India’s police and intelligence services.

Yemen’s ragtag rebels became a threat to world economy, showed military power has its limits

Praveen Swami - January 26, 2022

Iran and Saudi Arabia are talking—but it might be too late to put the war-making djinn back in the bottle. Power-brokers in Yemen depend on violence to secure influence.

Texas attack shows a long, violent struggle for America’s soul is inevitable

Praveen Swami - January 23, 2022

The shock of Covid 19—both economic and cultural—has strengthened the maniacal conspiracy culture with which the American Right is suffused.

How England’s dying industrial towns became the West’s largest jihad factory

Praveen Swami - January 19, 2022

Malik Faisal Akram had no known affiliation with jihadist groups. Ideas that led him to take hostages in a Texas synagogue seeped into his mind almost by osmosis.

Pakistani State won’t collapse. Choice is between civil war and short-term rise in violence

Praveen Swami - January 16, 2022

Islamabad's new national security doctrine, calling for peace and trade, is good news for neighbours like India. But it doesn't address a critical question.

India must consolidate its gains in Kashmir. Jihadist groups eyeing expansion opportunity

Praveen Swami - January 12, 2022

There are signs that the Pakistan army may no longer be willing—or able, in the face of a resurgent Taliban—to take on its jihadist proxies.

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A year after Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution, a parched summer looms ahead

Pakistani accomplices, shootouts, sealed chargesheet—how the 7/11 blasts case fell apart

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Martyrs’ Day row has reopened Kashmir’s deepest wounds

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