Divya Delhi:  The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting on 22 March to discuss Lok Sabha and state assembly seat delimitation seems like a hypocritical divided house. Two things strike out: Congress' strange duplicity and the DMK's unusual timing in raising delimitation. Sev...

Divya Delhi: I start my laptop in the morning. When I log in, I receive a flood of emails. Many reeked of verbosity, flowery phrasing, and pointlessness! I saw one proclaiming the March 20 ‘International Day of Happiness’. It made me think about workplace happiness. Skimming through my emails, I realized w...

Divya Delhi : Ministers in the Narendra Modi government approve faulty policy decisions, hence they are to blame. Although they proposed those bad policies, bureaucrats are comfortably exempt from blame. Numerous economic proposals have been proposed, adopted, and subsequently abandoned under Modi. It often came down t...

Divya Delhi : After a trilateral summit in Beijing, Chinese rhetoric reflected the belief that China can capitalize on the changing Middle East. The high-level conference brought together Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem G...