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India better placed as world deals with Covid, economic headwinds

From a full-blown war in Europe to China's botched-up exit from its zero-Covid policy, the first of a yearender series assesses how geopolitics and geoeconomics played out for India

Indispensable India? Don't let confidence turn into complacency

We have been a potential partner for too long without actually committing ourselves to delivery

Dreaming of Tiananmen

The immediate impact of the protests in China should not be overstated. Yet, this is the first sign of cracks in the post-Tiananmen consensus that built 21st-century China

G20: Lessons from Bali summit and what it implies for India's presidency

India takes on the presidency at a crucial juncture, and the definitions of "success" for the Indian presidency just got updated

The Chief Twit takes over, but why should any of us care?

There's nothing in this deal to cause anyone who believed the world's richest man was an untalented amateur to change their mind

UK crisis: The markets strike back

Liz Truss almost turned the UK into a distrusted emerging economy

Superpower no more: The fading influence of Russia

Why even if Russia wins the Ukraine war, it will never again be regarded with awe

A renewed multilateralism

India has an opportunity over the next months and years to repair the stressed post-War order

Queen Elizabeth II: An exception, not the rule

'She epitomised soft power before we knew what the term meant'

The fake 'freebie' debate

The model of state government-led provision of welfare is under sustained attack, and that's not good news for India

The revenge of orthodoxy

Across the world, emerging economies that tried to defy orthodox policy making are in danger

Two Supreme Courts, two imperfect democracies

The Indian Supreme Court, for various reasons, does not seem to lie within the scope of this accountability

India's trade contradictions

WTO experience highlights India's less-than-coherent approach towards trade

Four stages of war

At the end of the third stage of this war, the Russians will likely control a straightened and relatively defensible line in eastern Ukraine

Unexpected, but also unacceptable

Russian invasion's multi-dimensional impact, and India's meek acceptance of the damage done to its economy

Indian companies should hit sustainability targets abroad, not just at home

Activist investors on the lookout for "greenwashing" have to be careful of the unintended consequences of their choices

Numbered in the millions

It is perfectly fair to dispute the exact methodology used by the WHO's research team

A new indispensable power

No other capital should matter as much to New Delhi as Brussels

Seven questions after Ukraine

Here is a quick summary of some of the questions this crisis has posed that remain unanswered

Ukraine's globalisation lesson

Actually, interconnectedness and co-dependence preserve strategic autonomy