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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
TopicKarmapa

Topic: Karmapa

Karmapa’s Caribbean citizenship cost him Indian recognition

Sources say India never recognised Ogyen Trinley Dorji as the 17th Karmapa, the head of one of Tibetan Buddhism’s four main schools.

2 Karmapas are uniting and it’s time for India to deal with it in a mature way

Meeting of the two Karmapas in France can have far-reaching consequences for Tibetan politics and India-China relations.

How Rahul Gandhi & Kejriwal avoid each other; and the ‘three CMs’ of Karnataka

Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

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Strait of Hormuz crisis shows limits of US, say Chinese. ‘India most vulnerable’

Chinese online discourse situates the crisis within a broader geopolitical context, particularly the hesitancy of US allies to support Washington.

Covid, sanctions, war. Life’s rough for Surat’s small diamond units, salaries ‘not guaranteed anymore’

West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.