Opinion – Lok Panchayat

Does the World Economic Forum want to rule the world?

The World Economic Forum is working behind a smokescreen of equitable world governance to hand more power to the corporate elite. They are allowed to do so at the peril of the world’s most vulnerable in the short-term, and by endangering the autonomy of all sections of society over time.

Can New Delhi learn to stop worrying and test the bomb?

Less than an hour before meeting Xi Jinping, US President Trump ordered the US Department of Defence to resume nuclear testing after 33 years. In 2025, the options are clear for New Delhi: adhere to a self-imposed ban on nuclear weapons testing even as rival powers continue to test their weapons, or New Delhi can declare it is has no reason to halt its nuclear weapons program at a time when the Americans have expressed their intent to conduct their own tests, and even more importantly, have admitted that powers hostile to India have been testing their weapons while we have not.

Borrowed language, borrowed ideas, borrowed consciousness

When the British began teaching us English, they put the capstone on a thousand-year process of scrambling the Indian brain. It is the imperative of the conquered to apply such power as they possess in absolute resistance, without regard for success or extinction. That was the way of the Americans, the Haitians, and many other colonised nations that successfully fought against worse odds than we ever faced. The coward's way of compromise and negotiation with the conqueror has given India, in the case of language, the obscene feebleness of modern Indian society.

The Dangerous Lie of the Global Indian

Western intellectuals and academics of Indian-origin, who are engaging Indian audiences with greater frequency constitute the spear’s edge of the diaspora’s engagement with India. The final outcome is a muddling of India’s interests with the interests of the diaspora and its host countries.

Evolve or die. India’s missing grand strategy is a weakness it cannot afford

Foreign Minister Jaishankar's thundering rhetoric against selective outrage in Europe over India's petrochemical trade with Russia turned him into an internet sensation overnight. The new rockstar of Indian foreign policy has made fans of India's youth, a generation as curious and informed on the subject of international affairs as any that ever emerged in India.

India’s Unkept Promises and the Road Forward

In its 75 years as an independent country, India presents all of the same contrasts in its society and culture, indeed in the physical appearance of its people, that it did in the immediate aftermath of two centuries of colonial rule.