Pranay K Shome

  The sudden and dramatic fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in a matter of days may have come as a rude shock to the world, but it came as most shocking to New Delhi,...

  The liberal order is once again in acute crisis, this time the focal point is Afghanistan. While a lot of articles, books and monographs have been written over the years, yet hardly any writer...

  It is coming back to where it all started two decades ago. The Taliban this time is in the driver’s seat, it is on a relentless northward march taking town after town, district after...

Fate seems to be playing a cruel role for the Middle Kingdom nation. At a time when China was harboring ambitions of dislodging the United States and becoming the new magnus frater in the...

  Democracy, it is often said is chaotic political system which tends to be cacophonic and inefficient, but over time especially since the 19th century onwards, democracy has proven to be the best form of...

  It has been almost one and half year since the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world upside down as we know it. Homo Sapiens continue to fall, economies struggle to recover and death and...

  China’s unusual outburst against Bangladesh regarding the Quadrilateral security grouping raised quite a few eyebrows in South Block. This was clearly unprecedented because the Quad countries had recently talked of Quad+ but Bangladesh clearly...

  “You can change friends, not neighbours”, former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee had famously said in the context of India-Pakistan relations. While this relationship has been largely rocky during the first and...

  Nepal has been facing internal political turbulence for the last six months. Ever since the incumbent Premier KP Sharma Oli decided to dissolve Parliament and hold snap elections in April, since then a lot...

  The standoff at the Ladakh border between India and China which was triggered in March last year and the subsequent dialing down of tensions and war mongering rhetoric has highlighted the effectiveness of the...

  Sri Lanka and India ties have been largely seen from the prism of civilisational ties, kinship and shared cultural and economic relations, Sri Lanka and India’s relationship goes back to ages, but in the...

The last one year saw a lot of developments in Afghanistan. On February 29, 2020 the Afghan insurgent group Taliban signed a peace accord with the US government under which all US troops will...

  The standoff on the Ladakh border between the Indian Army and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) continues amid failing talks and casus belli measures being unleashed by the Chinese regime. While the union government and...