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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
TopicBritish author

Topic: British author

British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space story ‘Orbital’

Judges praised the ‘intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world’ in the novel, which the author wrote while stuck at home during the pandemic.

Off The Cuff with Nicholas Wade

People are now much more open to finding an alternate explanation for where the virus came from after WHO’s dissatisfactory visit to China in...

On Camera

Norway’s Modi cartoon was not satire. Just colonial laziness

Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.

Waiver or no waiver, Russian crude remains centrepiece of India’s oil imports strategy

With Washington issuing a third 30-day waiver for Russian crude cargoes at sea, India signals continuity in import strategy while ramping up purchases from Venezuela and other suppliers.

Dragon’s armour: How Xi reshaped China’s military with theatre commands a decade before India’s push

While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.