Who can say how the people of India and their political parties will behave? An excerpt of the concluding speech B R Ambedkar delivered as Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee on the floor of the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949.

A conversation on the role of the media in India-China relations with Pallavi Aiyar, author of Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China

Sri Lanka’s political trajectory is worrisome –

While differences exist between India and Turkey, they need not be entirely irreconcilable, or hinder the promotion of closer economic and cultural ties.

Ahmet Davutoglu, architect of power, neither seeks to sever all ties with Turkey’s pre-republican past, nor rejects all things Ottoman.

The dynamics of US-China-India relations: How will the three states reconcile their political instincts with their material interests?

Happiness research and public policy in The Politics of Happiness by Derek Bok

Gender violence is a larger problem than imagined. What’s a government to do?

The damaging consequences of wishful resignation – for a large section of India’s political and intellectual
elite, talks with Pakistan are an end in itself. Unfortunately, that’s hardly enough.