1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (233+ words) Once it fuelled anti-Indian fury. Now, under its rule, Sri Lankans overwhelmingly favour India. What these episodes reveal is clear: anti-Indian sentiment in Sri Lanka has often been shaped and amplified by political actors rather than being a straightforward reflection…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago   (1605+ words) The weakening of the West may close an era, but only societies with ideas, moral purpose and agency can open another. There are moments when the decline of a power can be measured in statistics, military setbacks or shifting alliances....

1+ hour, 46+ min ago   (539+ words) China’s economic success is becoming a political temptation for smaller democracies — and a test of whether prosperity can come without surrendering democratic freedoms Sri Lanka once openly expressed interest in adopting governance lessons from China during Mahinda Rajapaksa’s tenure — a…...

2+ hour, 19+ min ago   (372+ words) The first part of this two-part article was published in yesterday’s edition.- Editors The primary operational hurdle is non-participation: what happens if one or more states decline to join? Conditioning action on full consensus among Indian Ocean littoral states inevitably…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago   (286+ words) Wars thousands of kilometres away are emptying Sri Lanka’s hotels and Pakistan’s mountains — exposing how fragile tourism has become. What happened? The answer lies thousands of kilometres from Sri Lanka’s shores. Pakistan knows this story intimately, though its own crisis…...

2+ hour, 43+ min ago   (1015+ words) India’s fight against cross-border militancy is legitimate. But when arrests and foreign-terror claims race ahead of courtroom evidence, counterterrorism risks becoming a tool of domestic politics. India has legitimate security concerns arising from cross-border militancy. Its history of terrorist attacks…...

20+ hour, 6+ min ago   (498+ words) Governments unquestionably have a role. The debate over banning social media for minors is rapidly becoming one of the defining policy questions of the digital age. As countries around the world move toward restrictions, India is faced with a choice:…...

1+ day, 42+ min ago   (963+ words) From satellites and lasers to ‘Rods From God’, Israel is openly discussing a new frontier of warfare — and the technology is becoming cheaper. Forty-five years ago, Mel Brooks imagined a comic future in which ultra-Orthodox Jewish astronauts protected the Jewish…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (599+ words) Despite years of military offensives, the Taliban-linked militant network is rebuilding, expanding its reach and intensifying attacks from its Afghan sanctuary. On August 19, 2026, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist, Abdullah, was killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Bajaur District…...

2+ day, 20+ min ago   (263+ words) Ravi K. Mishra argues that 150 years of census data tell a very different story about population, representation and political power History requires both the micro and macro approach in an almost equal measure. It is a constitutional argument that I am…...