Commentary

Poonam Sharma When sociologists, media outlets, and popular culture named Generation Z (Gen Z), it was not so much a continuation of an alphabetical series after Millennials (Gen Y). It was a recognition of a change in way of thinking, way…

Poonam Sharma A Summit Clouded by Enigma The Alaska meeting of US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, designed to restart diplomatic talks on the Ukraine war, has taken an unexpected route. Rather than news of…

Poonam Sharma The highly anticipated weekend summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday was largely regarded as a bid to draw a roadmap toward ending the long-brewing Ukraine war.…

Nanda B Shandilya The Indo-US partnership, erstwhile hailed as a model for 21st-century diplomacy, has reached a tricky moment. During the past decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former U.S. President Donald Trump developed a…

Poonam Sharma  In today’s hyper-connected world, tools like VPNs and virtual private servers (VPS) are marketed as shields for online privacy. But in the wrong hands, these same tools become dangerous weapons — and no one understands this…

Poonam Sharma Cybercrime is no longer the exclusive domain of Hollywood thrillers or shadowy international syndicates. It is creeping into our neighborhoods, infecting small towns, and finding eager recruits among teenagers and young…

Poonam Sharma The Vatican, normally regarded as the spiritual center of the Catholic Church, is today at the center of a fiery financial scandal that may rock its moral leadership to its foundation. It has been claimed that the Holy See…

Poonam Sharma A explosive investigative documentary has shaken Kyiv and London, exposing what is potentially one of the biggest child trafficking rings in contemporary Europe. Masking itself as humanitarian aid, the ring is said to be…

Poonam Sharma It was not the world leader in dam building China is today in the mid-20th century. In 1950, at the end of decades of Japanese rule, the nation had only 22 dams — a small percentage of the 5,268 dams that existed around the…

Poonam Sharma Beijing, the restless former capital of ambition. Culture. High finance. Now the city is a shadow of its past. Behind the posters hailing the propaganda slogans and neat plazas, the lifeblood of the city—the people, the…