Pranay K Shome

  Globalisation is the process of increasing and intensifying interconnectedness among societies and institutions along financial, commercial, cultural and social domains. It refers to the metamorphosis of the Homo Sapiens community into a single entity...

  The India-French alliance is undoubtedly one of the strongest connections that exists in the oriental-occidental contact ever since the end of the Second World War. The Indo-French cooperation has been one partnership which has...

  "The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson. The world is currently in a turbulent state grappling with the existential issues of an ever more...

  The end of the Second World War brought about a paradigm shift in global politics. One of the defining changes that this epochal event brought about was the decolonization and the emergence of several...

  India - the world’s largest democracy and a civilisational state in the current capacity as the G20 president - is playing a monumental role in not only putting in order a fragmented global order...

  Human life and institutions are considered to be constantly in a dialectical state. Institutions, empires and socio-political structures emerge, rise and finally wither away. More so in the case of political and cultural theory,...

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones,” said Albert Einstein. This grim observation was made in the aftermath of...

Democracy can be messy, it can be cacophonic, decision-making can suffer from deadlocks, consensus may be a luxury, people’s will can sometimes appear to be tyrannical to quote De Tocqueville, but despite all these...

The year 2022 has been quite an eventful year in the diplomatic journey of the world’s sixth-largest economy. To begin with, the year has been dominated by the egregious February 24 Russian invasion of...

  "You educate a man, you educate a man, you educate a woman, and you educate a generation,” said Brigham Young; unfortunately this aphorism is not at all understood by the Taliban. In a recent...

  The same wine in the new bottle; this can be rightly said in the context of the appointment of ex-ISI chief Asim Munir as the chief of the Pakistani army. Asim Munir, who is...

  It is said that social institutions are dynamic in nature. They are conditioned by various internal and external forces. No country is immune to these changes. Religion and social customs are especially subject to...

  Change is the rule of the world. Nothing remains static; everything is dynamic, for everything changes. This rule perhaps applies best to the realm of global politics. The G20 summit, which is meeting in...