Author: Aditya Chaturvedi

In the Tragedy of Pax Americana, Kissinger looms like a titan. Though, in retrospect, his follies and crimes of omission and commission outstrip his towering achievements – Middle East shuttle diplomacy, prolonging the detente with Moscow, and the breakthrough with Maoist China, his finest hour. Napalm, Agent Orange, turning the landlocked Laos into the ‘Most […]

The impact of digital transformation, automation, and artificial intelligence on the workforce and the economy.

There are corners in the world where history follows neither a predictably linear nor sinuously zig-zag detour, but a cyclic, circular path. These are also the places where endless deliberations come to a naught, and struggles, hopes, and aspirations vaporise like ether into thin air.  This is the perennial dilemma in the tragedy of geopolitics, […]

The surprise multi-front attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel on the 50th anniversary of Yom Kippur war, and Israeli security and intelligence agencies having caught off guard, this time as well, is a premonition foretold. Ironically, it comes at a time when leading Israeli media as well as academia, from Haaretz to Jerusalem Post, are […]

MK Gandhi was an influential figure of the 20th century and a peerless influence on India. Before him, mass politics, civil disobedience, and popular mobilisation, were largely unknown. He singularly created a rousing new awakening and propagated reasoned anti-imperialist consciousness whose reverberations were felt from Gymkhanas of Delhi, to the drawing rooms of Malabar Hills, […]

Aditya Chaturvedi looks at the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard courtroom drama, and the recently released Netflix series on it, through a philosophical prism.

India should strengthen its relations in South Asia, boost regional trade and connectivity, and get rid of mutual suspicions with China.

Resolving all structural issues is crucial to India’s rise as an indomitable global power, not just an influential regional player vying for influence in its backyard