With the economy collapsing, New Delhi is lifting restrictions — as the death toll rises

Teachers, physicians, diplomats, journalists and others bore witness to the massacres and death marches.

Russia and Ukraine took one step forward and two steps back in the search for an elusive peace settlement during talks last week. Negotiators met in Istanbul to discuss Ukraine’s potential accession...

Attacks such as the Moscow drone strikes seen as ‘magician’s sleight of hand’ that deceives the Kremlin and derails its plans

A journalist's history of the short yet troubled life of this 'new' region bordering China and Southeast Asia, exploring its significance for the idea of India.

Teachers, physicians, diplomats, journalists and others bore witness to the massacres and death marches.

Britain’s connection to India shaped the views of political philosophers and goaded the British into major reforms, at home and abroad.

This new generation combines the cultural values of the traditional Asian family with the life goals of the American teenager, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

The abolition of the region’s special status is another stage in the PM’s Hindu nationalist project, says Indian writer Kapil Komireddi

An exploration of the international context for Ambedkar’s ideas around caste, law, religion, democracy and race, as developed while studying in the imperial capital.

Skewering the simplistic binaries that often dominate the debate, Peace, Poverty and Betrayal is a fresh and elegant history of British India.

Xi Jinping faces dilemma in resolving crisis without losing face

A new watercourse is playing havoc with farmland and roads and even threatening a city – but also highlights the potential cost of the country’s dependence on soya beans

Apr 22, 2023 // The West sees the world as aligned against Russia following the Ukraine invasion, but in Africa things are less clear. In his latest book Samuel Ramani "offers the most in-depth and...

Pratinav Anil: Midnight’s Playboys - Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki

A remarkable personal story that captures the day-to-day reality of life during the bloody conflict that divided Nigeria in the late 1960s.

Is the invasion of Ukraine Vladimir Putin’s war or Russia’s war? How has the Kremlin managed to convince such an apparently large swathe of Russians that

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Ben Ryan reviews Sasha Polakow–Suransky’s ‘Go Back to Where You Came From: The backlash against immigration and the fate of Western democracy.’

There was a moment some time ago—however hard it is to imagine now—when Pakistan could have become a center of trade, investment, infrastructure projects,

A combative history of the British in India swats aside notions of benevolent imperial rule

An exploration of the international context for Ambedkar’s ideas around caste, law, religion, democracy and race, as developed while studying in the imperial capital.

The World Health Organization announced last week that Europe is now the epicentre of the new coronavirus epidemic. As the announcement was made, many countries in Africa and Asia were imposing...

How did it come to this? The Muslim-majority state remains in lockdown after India revoked special rights

Ukrainian military opted for a series of mini-offensives in phase one of their counter attack

The cumulative effect of Brian Klaas' tally of the US President's attacks on the media, the rule of law, ethical guidelines, election integrity, independent institutions and a shared sense of truth...

As Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to pledge at least £2.3billion in the next year to Ukraine, doubling down on this year's support, military experts reveal the changes in what will be supplied to...

Fridman contends that today's 'obsession' with 'Hybrid Warfare' is more to do with politics than conceptual novelty, having been devised in the 1960s. A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year 2019

In November 1938, Wilhelm Hornstein, a government lawyer from Braunschweig, Germany, was arrested by the Gestapo because he was Jewish and sent to the

Two excellent new books look at the building of British India and the origins of empire.

Two new books — by Anna Arutunyan and Samir Puri — do a fine job of placing the hostility in its larger historical, geopolitical and social contexts

In "The Zelensky Effect," Olga Onuch and Henry Hale investigate the historical and cultural origins of Ukraine's solidarity in the face of Russian invasion.

Analysis: Little evidence thus far that civilians in Mariupol had fallen ill because of chemical attack