India’s Rise—On Its Own Terms?
By the late 2030s, India is projected to become a $10 trillion economy, up from $4 trillion today. Its growth—powered by demographic scale, reorienting...
Sri Lanka’s ‘Marxist Nationalism’ and the Tamil Question
If the global media coverage is to be believed, Sri Lanka has just had a socialist revolution. While the newly elected President Anura Kumara...
Slaughterhouse Myanmar: Field Notes from Dystopia
In a world with no shortage of mass atrocities, the civil war in Myanmar is perhaps the most inescapably dystopian. Ever since the February...
Democratic backsliding: A retrospective on the Bolsonaro years
Authors: Sahasranshu Dash and Ana Tereza Duarte Lima de Barros*
The twin shocks of the 2007-09 financial crisis and the refugee crisis caused by the...
Britain’s autumn budget and the twilight of Thatcherism
On the 17th of November, barely over a month in office, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt presented a career-defining autumn statement....
The Resilience of the Dollar’s ‘Exorbitant Privilege’
Russia’s war of extermination in Ukraine has been met with far-reaching sanctions. These have included the freezing of the Russian central bank’s access to...
Shireen Abu Akleh and the eternal dilemma
Despite the ongoing carnage in Ukraine, Israel-Palestine remains one of the world’s most intractable problems. The horrendous killing of the Palestinian-American journalist and Al...