Six weeks into the war between the United States and Iran, the conflict has arrived at its most dangerous inflection point. What began as a rapid military campaign has hardened …
TN Ashok
TN Ashok
TN Ashok is a veteran journalist with over five decades of experience. He served as Editor (Economics) at the Press Trust of India (PTI) and has traveled to more than 20 countries on assignments with Indian prime ministers and vice presidents.
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The Gulf in the Ballot Box: How a Distant War Is Reshaping India’s Five-State Election
by TN Ashokby TN Ashok 8 minutes readIndia is heading into its most consequential sub-national electoral cycle in a decade — and the campaign trail smells, unexpectedly, of kerosene. A war in West Asia, now entering its …
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Delhi’s Big Screen Moment: How the Capital Is Rewriting India’s Film Festival Playbook
by TN Ashokby TN Ashok 6 minutes readFor decades, India’s film festival circuit has been defined by a familiar triangle. Goa hosts the country’s flagship state-backed spectacle — red carpets, global premieres, and tiered accreditation badges that …
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India on the Edge: How the Iran War Is Testing Modi’s Economic Miracle — and His Political Future
by TN Ashokby TN Ashok 9 minutes readWhen Narendra Modi flew to Jerusalem on February 26 to address the Knesset — becoming the first Indian prime minister to do so — the timing carried an unmistakable strategic signal. Two …
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Indian PM Modi’s BJP Hopes to Tighten Control of the Upper House of Parliament
by TN Ashokby TN Ashok 10 minutes readOn the morning of Monday, March 16, in ten state assembly halls spread across India’s vast subcontinent, legislators will cast ballots that most people outside political circles will barely notice. …
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A Region at War, A World on Edge: The Expanding Iran Conflict
by TN Ashokby TN Ashok 6 minutes readThe Middle East has entered its most dangerous military confrontation in decades, after a coordinated U.S.–Israeli assault on Iran — dubbed Operation Epic Fury — killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah …
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Eighty years after Hermann Goering smuggled cyanide past his guards and cheated the hangman, Hollywood has returned to Nuremberg — not to replay the verdict, but to probe the mind …
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Franco-Indian AI Collaboration in Health: A New Strategic Axis Beyond Washington and Beijing
by TN Ashokby TN Ashok 7 minutes readArtificial intelligence is reshaping nearly every sector of modern life, but nowhere is its potential more profound than in healthcare. At a recent summit, India and France inaugurated the Franco-Indian …
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India’s Budget 2026: Fiscal Discipline for the Boardroom, Austerity for the Bazaar
by TN Ashokby TN Ashok 5 minutes readFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s ninth consecutive Union Budget is less a populist overture than a technocratic manifesto. With a fiscal deficit target of 4.3 percent of GDP and a record …