Sanjay Kapoor

Can India emerge unscathed after hosting G20 and SCo?

Hosting G20, and SC0 is a big challenge for India. Will US President Joe Biden participate in the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin also around?

Fact checking or censorship?

If not withdrawn, new amendments to the Information Technology act, which are also called fake news laws could bring in new round of media censorship in the country.

FUDGED DATA, A GASPING ECONOMY, AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

With the Indian economy in dire straits amidst high inflation and unemployment, and with the impact of the Ukraine hitting the country with tangible intensity in the days to come, will the obfuscation of data help in winning the elections?

Indian silence on Chinese belligerence has a meaning

India has maintained its silence during the latest face-off between US and China, but is trying to explore a peace agreement with Beijing- its raids on Chinese telecom companies notwithstanding.

Kashmir-Democracy lost to a majoritarian narrative and institutional fragility

institutional weakness displayed by Supreme Court’s reluctance to take up the matter of the revocation of Article 370 has hurt constitutional democracy in our country

Brasilia-A city that speaks for itself and its builders

Marcal Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, backed by Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek built Brasilia from scratch like India’s Chandigarh. Did the capital meet its social objectives that drove Niemeyer? History thinks otherwise.

The flying Hercules might just miss the bus

Akhilesh Yadav has been getting rapturous crowds and is increasingly looking chief ministerial. The arithmetic of Yadavs, Muslims, farmers, caste-based organizations, disgruntled communities, and those who suffered during the pandemic, is enough to oust the discredited Yogi government. Opinion polls are backing this trend.

Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, UP elections and India’s foreign policy dilemmas

Will the Indian government save its huge investments in Afghanistan and not be reduced into a non-entity in the region? Or, will it only choose to use Taliban for its shallow ends in domestic politics, to win elections, and score brownie points by polarising on communal grounds through fake media narratives?

So why are they afraid of the media?

Till recently, governments were afraid to control the press. No longer. Now governments in their desperation to control the narrative just don’t want a free media.

Chabahar stares at irrelevance as Taliban surges ahead

The huge Chabahar Port project in Iran, meant to allow India to side-step Pakistan and take the land route to Afghanistan and Central Asia, seems like a dead investment now — a dream gone sour