Soumya Bhowmick When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz landed in Gujarat this week and called for concluding the EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) by the end of January 2026, it signalled more than
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Vikram Zutshi As New York City's newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani shoulders the immense responsibility of governing a metropolis of over 8 million people, tackling issues like housing shortages, p
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Syed Zubair AhmedIf you go by the headlines, you would think the removal of Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, and his transfer to the United States were carried out to protect America's national
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MANOJ JOSHIThe past year was one of the most momentous in recent times, made so by the arrival of a US president who is bent on transforming the world to his own image. The year not only saw a short I
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Aditi Bhaduri Early in 2024, I had met X, a lawyer from Bangladesh. Suave, articulate and glamorous, she was in Kolkata and planning to host with others a World Bengali Congress. She was despondent a
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Shashi Tharoor As 2025 draws to a close, India finds itself navigating a turbulent regional environment. The year has been marked by Pakistan's uneasy economic stabilisation and Bangladesh's dramatic
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