Mihir S Sharma

Are the enormous numbers being thrown into AI unprecedented?

A trade deal with the US is both possible and essential - and so is one with Europe

Bihar has often supplied many of the unskilled and skilled migrants required by states with more vibrant economies

That should be a core question for the discipline of economics, but surprisingly few Nobel Prizes have been awarded to those who ask it

The Chinese might have lost some enthusiasm for their "iron friends" in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, but they are not turning off the tap completely

The US' relations with Pakistan appear to be on the upswing, without any objective reason why this should be so

This is not a product of American President Donald Trump, nor a consequence of his unfair singling out of India over the past few months

Do institutions matter? Donald Trump's sustained assault on them will give us an answer

India may yet emerge from this period of flux in trading relations with a tariff rate and exemption list from the US that allows some of its exporters to survive

It should be noted that most developing countries that have sought to negotiate Mr Trump's threatened tariff rates downwards have had limited success

The US has a particular, almost unique, history of racial oppression on its own territory

Mr Trump's actions in this sphere, because of their extreme nature and the dangerous rhetoric that accompanies them, receive the most attention

It is worth noting that it has been five years since the last large-scale civil aviation accident in India, the 2020 crash of Air India Express 1344 from Dubai to Kozhikode

The real issue, however, is that few technologies of the past created such uncertainty. It is true that nobody could predict what the internet would do to society

China had been left out of the original comprehensive list of countries being hit with what Mr Trump inaccurately described as "reciprocal" tariffs

Populist leaders of Mr Trump's stripe are provided the latitude to make multiple mistakes on an epic scale, any individual one of which might have sunk the career of a centrist predecessor

Trade policy, whether in the US or India, is made without taking the largest interest group into account

The hallmark of the populist has always been the willingness to risk it all in service of his personal ambition and national honour

The interregnum of a Democratic administration under President Joe Biden did little to reverse Mr Trump's original actions destabilising the global trading order

The swiftness with which Mr Trump has betrayed Ukraine is less surprising than the speed with which he has moved on domestic priorities