It is hard to argue that it does not, with the long list of brutalities and a government validating hate, but the government is not the country. Elections are when people get to choose a new one.

Nehru was saying that India, and other post-colonial countries, were profoundly interested in European problems, and was drawing a strong link between handling wars in one place and those of another. This is the exact opposite of Jaishankar suggesting that the challenges India has with China are separate.

The most spectacular failure of Modi’s stint has been in foreign policy. When Manmohan Singh demitted office, India had enough standing that Modi could invite all SAARC prime ministers to his inauguration. India was not only the pre-eminent country in the region, other South Asian countries did not mind gathering under its aegis.

To look away from evil is evil, I was taught, but what evil is this to continue to look upon evil, and more evil, and even more evil? Displaced, starved, bombed, and shot, these people will continue to die. What dies in us as we continue to watch, and do nothing?

With 87% of extracted groundwater in India used for irrigation, the future looks bleak. A 2019 Indian government report estimated that 74% of the area where wheat is cultivated, and 65% of the area where rice is grown, will face water shortages.

There is a void in India's strategic thinking. In the last 10 years, there has been no release of a White Paper or strategy document by the Narendra Modi government.

Ruled by liars and cowards, India has been reduced to being a country where we go to bed praying that our government does not embarrass us further, and yet, inevitably, it does.

Despite the severe challenges that Bhutan faces – from its economy to its security – its stable and deepening democracy is one of the few bright spots in South Asian and global politics.

Despite an overwhelming military advantage, Israel is far from meeting its own stated goals of the war in the Gaza Strip. This may be because Netanyahu is pursuing a different endgame.

There are many parts to the judgment. But there is one issue that stands out as the heart and substance of the case, and it is the key differentiator between a democracy and a dictatorship.

Pop culture references of right and wrong, particularly through comic book characters like Captain America, will profoundly shape the feelings of younger Americans in the Israel-Palestine conflict 

I can only write about a country that is dead and gone, Zeyad’s book is about living in the corpse of a body politic that has abandoned even the desire to be fair and just to all its citizens.

War is a choice, often a choice that leads to more war.

As people struggle to understand the scale of the carnage in Israel-Palestine, many will inevitably come to the conclusion that “Western hypocrisy” is the answer.

The United States is Israel’s ally. It is axiomatic that it should support Israel. But a stupid ally is no benefit to anybody.

Israelis were given a poisoned gift, one that gave them a state at the cost of another people’s dignity. Those on the extremist right, have always embraced this, and even now speak of annihilating or ethnically cleansing the Palestinians that remain. A large set, though, have always struggled to reconcile these issues.

Israel is fighting a losing war not because it does not have the military capability, or the wealth, or diplomatic nous, but because the war’s aims are based on a failed politics, on the idea that Israel can make the Palestinians irrelevant and invisible to the world. That is a political goal no military can deliver.

Bush recently inadvertently raised the question of who all could be responsible for the present scenario in Israel and Palestine. Beyond the actions of Hamas and Israeli government, the most prominent actor has been the United States.

No other Israeli leader has been as steadfast in sidelining the Palestinian issue as Benjamin Netanyahu. The latest assault by Hamas has proved that Israeli intelligence services are not invincible.

Going by the logic presented in Delhi Police's FIR against NewsClick and Prabir Purkayastha, many others like Ajit Doval and Joe Biden can be arrested.