The markdown on Russian Urals versus the standard Brent touched $25.8 — an amount twice as great compared to the era after the introduction of US penalties targeting Lukoil and Rosneft. Russian oil prices hit record lows / © TSN.ua…
The cause stemmed from a deficiency in delicious rasgullas. Wedding / © pexels.com A wedding celebration in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India, devolved into a significant altercation, and the planned event was halted due to an insufficiency of the customary sweet, rasgulla.…
Seeing Devi, our servant maid, brew a cup of hot filter coffee for my mother, thoroughly shook me up. Devi? Enjoying free access to that sacrosanct location in a Tamil Brahmin home, its kitchen? Free to light the stove, boil…
They say history repeats itself, first as a tragedy and then as a farce. At the dawn of India as a republic, several Western and Indian scholars, including Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, had reservations about its survival as a democracy. Widespread…
In just over a month, India has gone from boasting about its vaccine distribution to becoming the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. As this author explained in a previous article, many have questioned whether India’s vaccine diplomacy was a…
An effective communicator with a questionable past builds a successful campaign as an outsider disinterested in everyday, run-of-the-mill politics. He smartly taps into the fears and anxieties of voters and projects himself as the only person who can fix the…
Sooner rather than later, the Pakistan-backed Taliban will train its guns on India, which makes it imperative for New Delhi to support brave Afghans fighting the new regime in Kabul. Kabul has fallen again to the Taliban. Surprisingly, so has…
The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing inequality globally and even advanced economies have not been spared. Before the pandemic began in 2020, inequality was on the rise. Decades of globalization, loose monetary policy and the rise of oligopolies have contributed to this phenomenon. In many ways,…