India has demand; India has aircrafts; and India has airports. What it still lacks is systemic competitiveness. Indian carriers have placed some of the largest bulk orders in aviation history …
Opinion
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“War has a momentum of its own… you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.” — George F. Kennan Over a city starved of …
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Assam’s SOP Must Move Beyond Closures
by Utkarsh Yadav and Alokita Yadav 3 minutes readUmrangso’s rat-hole mine flooding in January 2025, which trapped nine workers, underlined how quickly unauthorised extraction turns fatal. Similar incidents across the North East show that a ban without routine detection and …
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Opinion: Greenland and Trump …Moving From Fantasy to Reality?
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 6 minutes readIt does not take much time to shift attention in Washington DC or for the media to drop their existing high-profile stories like hot potatoes. Venezuela and Nicolas Maduro are …
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America’s volatile foreign policy is forcing India to revisit its own priorities. Domestically, the Modi government seems intent to move faster on domestic reforms to buttress growth that is ordinarily fueled by commercial ties …
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Opinion: Venezuela and Drama on the High Seas
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 6 minutes readIn a dramatic development the United States has seized the oil tanker on the run for several days now but on a changed name with a newly painted Russian flag. …
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India – the country dubbed as Bangladesh’s doula during its nascence – has suffered a strategic setback due to recent monumental political transformation along its eastern border. This unavoidable fallout …
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Why South Asian Voters Should Back North Carolina’s Roy Cooper for US Senate in 2026
by Rohith (Ro) Chari, Special to South Asian Herald 7 minutes readNorth Carolina is heading into an open Senate race in 2026, in a state that has become one of the country’s most competitive political battlegrounds. With Senator Thom Tillis not …
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Opinion: Maduro Is Gone, but What of Venezuela?
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 5 minutes readAfter four months of intense pressure by way of blowing up alleged drug boats and chasing huge sanctioned tankers carrying Venezuelan oil, President Donald Trump finally had his way when …
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The India We Imagine: Re-envisioning India’s Global Role at the 23rd India Conference at Harvard
by Eshaan Mani and Vedika Jain 5 minutes readThe India Conference at Harvard, one of the world’s longest-running student-led forums on India, will return to Harvard University on February 14 and 15, 2026, convening global leaders, thinkers, and creators …