By P.K.Balachandran
The Gambia, a small country in West Africa on the Atlantic coast, is upholding democracy at home and abroad. After emerging from two decades of a harsh dictatorship in 2016-17, the country is building a society and polity...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 14: A recent survey done by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre (PRC) shows that democracy had suffered a decline globally between 2017 and 2023 and that there had been a rising preference for authoritarianism, especially in...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 13
The March 11 notification on the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 (CAA) has already triggered an agitation in Assam, shaking the foundation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government there.
And if the CAA...
It is not Russia but Ukraine which is in dire straits despite massive US arms aid
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 9:
Of the two countries that are at each other’s throats now - Russia and Ukraine - it is Ukraine which...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, February 21
As Myanmar descends into chaos, mega Indian and Chinese projects are getting stuck, dogged by security issues.
The writ of the military government does not run in the northern part of the country where armed ethnic groups...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, February 15: Desperate to capture the elusive South Indian States, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that dominates the Centre like a colossus, is using every trick in the book to stymie the functioning of opposition parties’ governments...
Bharat Ratna for Lal Kishenchand Advani has gone mostly unnoticed and even more unsung -- even when widely reported.
Worse is the case of the conferment of the nation's highest civilian award on Karpoori Thakur -- who?
Advani's name was in the news after...
The two governments make contradictory statements after the core group’s meeting in New Delhi on Friday.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, February 3:
In pursuit of its strategic objectives in the Western Indian Ocean, India has adopted a carrot and stick policy...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 30:
The Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, who has been clashing with India, accusing it of trying to impose its will on the Maldives, is now on a collision course with the Maldivian parliament.
The opposition Maldivian Democratic...
N Sathiya Moorthy Firstpost 29 January 2024
Even without his age, 77, the US media has been calling former President Donald Trump names of every description as if to indicate that he is off-balance on most issues, on most occasions.
Bob Woodward, who...
The Israel-Palestine conflict festers in the absence of powerful mediator with high stakes in peace there. The Iran-Pakistan clash is being resolved because there is a powerful mediator with high stakes in peace there, namely, China.
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 24:...
India refutes Maldives’ claim that it has agreed to withdraw
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, January 22:
Potential threats from China are likely to stall any Indian bid to withdraw its military personnel stationed in the Maldives. In fact, India has tactfully refuted...
