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Chaos, craft and the return of the auteur
As the conflict with the United States and Israel intensifies, Iran’s new leadership is signalling a prolonged confrontation—one that combines conventional warfare with pressure on global energy flows and supply chains.
Books, films and cultural works that help us see the Middle East beyond the noise of geopolitics
Energy dependence, remittance flows and trade corridors reveal how deeply India’s economy is tied to stability in West Asia. Part II of a two-part series.
Energy chokepoints, proxy escalation and great-power recalibration are reshaping the Gulf and unsettling the global order. Part I of a two-part series.
Even if Trump’s tariffs disappear, the forces reshaping global trade—geopolitics, security concerns and reconfigured regional blocs—are here to stay
Strategy fails not from lack of information, but from outdated assumptions about what it implies
As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
Why the real risk in the return-to-office debate isn’t resistance, but the quiet erosion of judgement and capability
Speed is not strategy. The real battle is over sovereignty, science and state capacity
Why India’s AI moment will be decided less by models—and more by how intelligence is applied, governed, and trusted
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
Another 50 tech IPOs won’t build a middle class
An eight-week teaching programme unsettles long-held assumptions about rigour, expertise, and what it truly means to help students learn
A field report on family ownership, continuity, and the craft of building for the long term
Why talking about death early may be the most humane act of care we offer our families—and ourselves
The Codes rewrite the architecture of wages, flexibility, digital compliance, gig work and industrial relations. But the real transformation depends on how states implement them—and how leaders rebuild trust, dignity and fairness inside workplaces
A small turbine and a flicker of light tell a different story.
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