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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
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As major powers turn artificial intelligence towards science and national security, India must widen its AI vision beyond inclusion and productivity
Disability inclusion, leadership imagination, and the limits of intent
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
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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
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