Maldivian Ministerial Visits to India Strengthen Bilateral Ties Comprehensively
Defence Minister Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon and Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel reached wide-ranging agreements with India during their back-to-back visits. Maldivian...
Background to Manmohan Singh’s Rise as India’s Economic Icon
A series of economic events over decades and Singh’s own conviction about liberalisation combined to free the deeply statist Indian...
Fake University Degrees: A Growing Issue in South Asia
Faking university degrees is common in South Asia and is rooted in the emerging socio-economic conditions. The Anura Kumara Dissanayake...
Syria: Bashar al-Assad’s Fall and Its Impact on the Region
Bashar al-Assad’s fall may not be an unmixed blessing. Bashar Al-Assad, the ruler of Syria since 2000, fled from his...
Why Is Crony Capitalism So Strong and Widespread?
Crony capitalism is a term of derision, and rightly so. Yet, it is widespread in the Global South. Stanford Political...
Controversy Has Dogged Anti-Defection Measures in Maldives, India and Sri Lanka
The conflict has been between the need to bring about political stability and order on the one hand, and respecting...
Impact of US Court’s Indictment of Adani on Indo-US Relations
What irked the US was that Gautam Adani had brazenly violated US law by using US investors’ money to bribe...
Bangladesh Still Struggling 100 Days After Hasina’s Ouster
The interim government of Prof Muhammad Yunus is assailed by multiple domestic and international challenges Late last week, the post-Hasina...
Sri Lankan Tamils Abandon Ethnic Parties in Favour of Leftist NPP
In the 14 November Sri Lankan parliamentary elections, the minority Tamils broke away from ethnic parties and supported the all-island,...
Similarities Between the Electoral Politics of Trump and Modi
Both have used historical grievances of communities with panache Republican Party candidate Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Democrat Kamala Harris...
