China’s Rise to Dominance

Using a variety of strategies over the past quarter century, China has achieved dominant global position in an ever-expanding list of industries. It has now moved from a rule-taker to rule-maker. How China acts and how the West responds will shape international affairs for decades.▶26-Nov-2025

T.N. Ninan

December 5, 2025

China's rise to dominance, The state of welfare in India, and more

Death, Dying, and Everything that Follows in Assam

In Assam's detention centre for suspected foreigners, the state wages an attritional assault against the lives of the detained. But that is only one part of a majoritatian fantasy to create a…

▶12-Nov-2025

Angshuman Choudhury

Great Nicobar Island: Hurtling Towards an Environmental Catastrophe

The so-called “Holistic Development” of Great Nicobar Island threatens irreversible ecological damage through massive infrastructural expansion in an area under permanent tectonic strain. It exposes…

▶12-Nov-2025

C.P. Rajendran

Gene-Edited Rice and the Risks of Fast-Tracking Regulation

India’s approval of gene-edited rice trials under relaxed GMO rules marks a push for self-reliance with climate-resilient seeds. Yet concerns over patents, costs, transparency, and public trust…

▶12-Nov-2025

Ambika Subash

Finger-lickin’ Food and the Civilising Mission

When the newly elected New York mayor Zohran Mamdani was recently mocked for eating with his hands, it exposed the enduring afterlife of colonial hierarchies.

▶11-Nov-2025

Divya Kannan

Obituary: The Man Who Let Communities Lead

Mamidi Rama Reddy championed grassroots, community-owned cooperatives in Telangana, empowering people through facilitative engagement rather than patronage. A brilliant legislative draftsman, he…

▶10-Nov-2025

M. S. Sriram

Book Review

What the Chettiar Story Reveals about Caste and Business

Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes.

▶07-Nov-2025

CJ Kuncheria