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Personal, morally weighted writing on the big questions in world affairs. Power and its misuse. The dignity of ordinary people caught between large forces. The gap between official narrative and lived reality. More personal than Analysis, more argued than reportage. Writing that carries a specific feeling about the world — a specific moral instinct, a specific way of seeing — that comes from years of watching and thinking. Argument as personal reckoning.

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The Dignity Deficit: When Leaders Stopped Being Serious

There was a time when the men and women who led nations understood the office demanded something of them. That seriousness — imperfect, sometimes hypocritical, but real — has largely gone. What replaced it is performance. The world is run by people who confuse visibility with leadership.

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The Ground India Lost

Mar 19, 2026

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