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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When Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death in absentia this week by a special tribunal in Dhaka, the shock rippled across the region. Yet the most…
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In the flat expanse of Illinois farmland, where autumn skies stretch endlessly above golden fields, Dean Buchholz watches his soybean harvest with a gnawing unease that has become all too…
