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Atul Mishra

Atul Mishra

Articles by Atul Mishra

Why nations must call out Trump’s transgressions

Trump’s declaration that the US will “run” Venezuela and control its energy marks the return of classical colonialism. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Jan 15, 2026 15:43 IST

Mamdani moment and the ideological churn in the US

Mamdani’s social democratic politics has taken on an issue that has mass appeal going beyond New York. (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 17, 2025 15:35 IST

Battle for West’s identity intensifies in the US, UK

Kirk and Robinson are part of an increasingly large number of individuals, groups and organisations — some more prominent and influential than others — who believe — in varying degrees of strength — that the West as an idea and a force in human affairs is facing an existential threat. (AP)

Updated on Oct 1, 2025 15:30 IST

How the US is ceding Asian geopolitical space to China

If the US concedes to China the status of a polar power, then it is natural that Beijing must also have a sphere of influence. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 26, 2025 14:38 IST

Aggressor’s peace with a windfall for mediator

The narrative that the West is responsible for the war has such hold on popular imagination that the violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty, the destruction of its territorial integrity and economic system, plain land grab and abduction of its children have all failed to appeal to the global moral sense (AFP)

Updated on Mar 20, 2025 14:00 IST

How the West’s world order lost wider trust

This picture shows tents housing displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip on December 29, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Dec 29, 2024 15:52 IST

A state of play defined by excesses, paradoxes

TOPSHOT - This picture taken from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre shows smoke billowing after an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Qlaileh, on October 14, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (Photo by Kawnat HAJU / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Oct 14, 2024 14:58 IST

Putin’s power playbook has parallels elsewhere

Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers his address in Moscow on March 23, 2024, the day after a gun attack on the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk.

Updated on Apr 2, 2024 15:45 IST

Ukraine’s war of sorrow is West’s strategic failure

A local resident and her child walks past the railway station destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Konstyantynivka, Donetsk region, on February 25, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)

Updated on Feb 26, 2024 06:51 IST

America in West Asia again is return of folly

A picture taken from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip shows smoke rising over buildings in Khan Yunis.

Updated on Feb 6, 2024 16:41 IST

In Gaza, the production of unequal humanity

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Updated on Dec 26, 2023 16:46 IST

The West must revisit policy on Israel’s war

Israel-Hamas War: Israeli flags flying over destroyed buildings inside the Gaza Strip.

Updated on Nov 20, 2023 06:29 IST

War in Gaza is Israel’s moment of reckoning

A Palestinian girl holds two children on a street in Gaza City. According to a Reuters report, the Gazan health authorities have said more than 1,400 people have been killed and over 6,000 have been wounded in the bombing. The sole electric power station has been switched off and hospitals are running out of fuel for emergency generators.

Updated on Oct 12, 2023 16:55 IST

Beyond the euphoria, G20 lessons for India

Delhi’s overarching goal as it shepherded India’s presidency was to arrest the increasing fragmentation of the global order through new initiatives and making India an area of agreement amongst conflicting actors (PTI file photo)

Updated on Sep 18, 2023 19:14 IST

What a warlord’s death illustrates about Russia

FILE PHOTO: A view shows a portrait of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at a makeshift memorial in Moscow, Russia August 24, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Updated on Aug 30, 2023 17:16 IST

What Kyiv must do to win over Global South

In its outreach to the Global South, Ukraine must avoid casting the war in terms of good versus evil and democracy versus authoritarianism.

Updated on Aug 15, 2023 15:42 IST

Revolt loosens Putin’s Russian stranglehold

The man Putin used to expand Moscow’s influence in the neighbourhood and beyond ended up threatening Putin’s hold over power.

Updated on Jun 26, 2023 16:24 IST

The concept of the Global South is slowly fraying

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses at the opening session of Voice of Global South Summit 2023, via video conferencing, on Thursday. (ANI)

Updated on May 17, 2023 17:30 IST

Taking stock of India’s policy on Ukraine war

A general view of Bakhmut, the site of heavy battles with Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, April 9, 2023 (AP)

Updated on Apr 10, 2023 13:58 IST

The churn in Europe is the big story of the Ukraine war

People attend a vigil for Ukraine held on the anniversary of the conflict with Russia, at Trafalgar Square in London, Britain.

Updated on Feb 28, 2023 14:22 IST

India must navigate a world in churn at G20

New ideas such as LiFE and India as a ‘mother of democracy’ will be pushed alongside a partial redefinition of Indian civilisation and a renewed emphasis on reforming global multilateralism (ANI)

Updated on Dec 28, 2022 08:29 IST

Reclaiming our past and our present from the West

The monopolisation of the past by history has produced ugly consequences in many parts of the world, including in India.

Updated on Sep 20, 2022 15:16 IST

Lessons for India from Pelosi’s Taiwan visit

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi gestures next to Legislative Yuan Vice President Tsai Chi-chang as she leaves the parliament in Taipei, Taiwan, August 3, 2022 (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 8, 2022 17:39 IST

Domestic issues: India must handle on its own

People shout slogans as they hold placards during a protest demanding the arrest of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Nupur Sharma for her comments on Prophet Mohammed, Kolkata, 7, 2022 (REUTERS)

Updated on Jun 8, 2022 14:01 IST

Ukraine: The state of play after invasion

A rally participant holds up a sign reading "Give up Putin, you are alone" during a demonstration at the Rathausmarkt against the Russian attack on Ukraine in Hamburg, Germany, Sunday, February 27, 2022 (AP)

Updated on Feb 28, 2022 03:30 IST

Ukraine: The West’s power has its limits

Ukrainian Military Forces servicemen manoeuvre in front of tanks of the 92nd separate mechanised brigade of Ukrainian Armed Forces, parked in their base near Klugino-Bashkirivka village, in the Kharkiv region on January 31, 2022 (AFP)

Updated on Jan 31, 2022 14:28 IST

75 years later, the quest to understand Partition

Partition was deeply unsatisfactory for all the parties concerned. Worse, it bequeathed to India and Pakistan three new problems: Territorial contestation, minorities vulnerable to enraged or predatory majorities, and discord over national identity (Getty Images)

Updated on Dec 4, 2021 16:50 IST

In South Asia, the politics of religious extremism

At the heart of the crisis is the fraying relations between the subcontinent’s two largest religious communities (PTI)

Updated on Nov 3, 2021 08:41 IST

AUKUS won’t derail either Quad or Western unity

It is almost certain that any important Indo-Pacific initiative will substantively overlap with Quad (ANI)

Updated on Sep 28, 2021 14:06 IST

Don’t write off the West. Kabul may signal its revival

US Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron load people being evacuated from Afghanistan onto a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

Updated on Aug 26, 2021 10:18 IST

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