Higher Education Vision 2025

Dr. Pervaiz Tahir | Nov 03, 2016 Reports in a section of the press inform that a Higher Education Vision 2025 is about to be...

Occupational accidents: moving towards safe work

Iftikhar Ahmed | Nov 03, 2016 Decent work is, in essence, safe work. Manufacturing and mining were already considered part of the sweatshops however the...

Disenfranchising The ‘Other’

M.G. Vaidya (‘The price of personal law, IE, November 1) makes chilling reading. It is not easy to believe that in a democracy, someone...

A Jaded Congress Could Not Have Asked For More

For a Congress that has been on the back foot on a number of issues politically, including being on the wrong side of the...

Is Erdogan Really Serious About Bringing Back Death Penalty?

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to respond to calls from his supporters for the plotters of the July 15 attempted coup to receive the...

Democracy in the West and Pakistan

Imtiaz Gul | Nov 01, 2016 Lust for political power, permit, patronage and privileges stand out as the hallmark of a democracy (or the absence...

An Invitation To Peace-Mongering

SHASHANK JOSHI | Nov 01, 2016 Our sense of patriotism is so official, aggressive, masculine and managerial, that we have no sense of the processes...

India’s Growing Arms Footprint in Afghanistan Enables Regional Power Projection

SHASHANK JOSHI | Nov 1, 2016 India’s growing arms footprint in Afghanistan points to an important future aspect of its regional power projection. “We have a...

Sectarian violence surges in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Abdul Basit | Nov 01, 2016 After a decline in scale and casualties, the anti-Shia sectarian violence is once again resurging in Pakistan. In the last two...

Dummies’ Guide to Pakistani Politics

What is happening in Pakistan? Why its happening the way it is happening and how can Pakistan change and become a genuinely democratic polity?...

India And Nepal Must Build On Their Unique Political, Social And Economic Ties

C. Raja Mohan | As the first Indian president to visit Nepal in nearly two decades, Pranab Mukherjeewould want to bring the healing touch to a...

BRICS And Walls

Christophe Jaffrelot | With the benefit of hindsight, one can learn several lessons from the BRICS summit in Goa. Before this event, close observers of India’s...