Avinash Paliwal

The writer teaches at SOAS University of London and is the author of My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal

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Who is accountable in Manipur? The answer can provide justice to mob assault survivorsSubscriber Only

July 20, 2023 15:26 IST

Essentially, we’re witnessing fresh partitions and associated armed ethnic mobilisation in Northeast India with support from states-within-the-Union. Such systems of violence, themselves a by-product of India’s majoritarian turn

Fri, Jul 21, 2023

Imran Khan’s arrest: No good options for PakistanSubscriber Only

May 10, 2023 20:01 IST

The choice is between an Islamic populist with autocratic tendencies and few practical solutions to structural problems, and a corrupt, politicised military, which is just as clueless on policy as it is determined to remain in power

Thu, May 11, 2023

Rahul Gandhi walked 4,000-km to listen and learn. But was he paying attention?Subscriber Only

March 13, 2023 07:15 IST

There’s no doubt that the Yatra did Congress good. But to confuse it as mass mobilisation that could reinvent national political mood is the kind of error that rookies, or self-obsessed politicians, make.

Mon, Mar 13, 2023

Bangladesh on razor’s edge: Why India must wake up to the looming economic crisis and political instability to its eastSubscriber Only

December 10, 2022 14:55 IST

For the first time since 2009, Sheikh Hasina is on the back foot and a Sri Lanka-level macro-economic breakdown is a possibility. There is a dire need for calibrated behind-the-scenes intervention by regional powers, especially India

Tue, Dec 13, 2022

Rishi Sunak, the accidental prime minister of a nation in chaosSubscriber Only

October 25, 2022 13:56 IST

It took an economic meltdown, two prime ministerial resignations, lack of an electoral mandate, and severe economic privilege on Sunak’s part for multiculturalism to succeed

Wed, Oct 26, 2022

Hindu-Muslim violence in the UK: Revisiting LeicesterSubscriber Only

September 29, 2022 18:48 IST

Avinash Paliwal writes: The timing of and ambiguity around communal tensions that flared recently are a by-product of the convergence of geopolitical processes

Fri, Sep 30, 2022