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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France’s leftist party La France Insoumise, gestures as he arrives for a campaign rally in Montpellier, southern France, on February 13, 2022. Mélenchon announced his candidacy for the 2027 French presidential election on May 3, 2026.

Europeside: Notes from a Small Continent

Jean-Luc Melénchon: Indefatigable fighter for a new France

The veteran Left leader enters the 2027 race hoping to turn years of political rebuilding into a new vision for France centred on social justice and democratic reform.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing before a meeting in New Delhi on June 1, 2026.

India’s Myanmar gamble

India is moving beyond its faith in Myanmar’s military rulers, but its search for influence and rare earths is drawing it into a far more complex and uncertain landscape.

Nirupama Subramanian

India after the rules-based order

India is entering a more unstable world than the one it adapted to after 1991. As the post-Cold War order frays and the US drives much of the disruption, New Delhi must abandon old assumptions and pursue a harder, more flexible model of cooperation.

MIND OF THE LIFE

FIFA’s own goal in America

The World Cup is becoming a stage for Trump’s politics, and FIFA is doing little to stop it.

Women waiting to refill LPG cylinders, on the outskirts of Jewar district, Uttar Pradesh, on April 24, 2026.

India’s bill for the Iran war

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has outlasted predictions of an Iranian climbdown and pushed the world into a grinding war of attrition. For India, the costs are already piling up.

Why Bangladesh is joining hands with Türkiye

India might be sceptical about Bangladesh’s growing defence ties with Türkiye, but Dhaka insists the partnership is driven by strategic calculations rather than ideological alignment.

PoK’s boiling summer

The Rawalakot crackdown, which left at least 11 people dead and over 70 injured, has pushed a protest over flour and electricity prices into a larger confrontation over political representation and power in PoK.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. “Run quickly, or the government will do what needs to be done,” was his warning to Bangladeshi settlers days after taking oath.

Himanta, Suvendu, and the remaking of India’s eastern border

Himanta Biswa Sarma and Suvendu Adhikari have turned the Bangladesh border into the central theatre of eastern India, where “push-backs” and anti-immigration campaigns are impacting diplomacy, trade, and India’s long-term interests in the region.

Shashank Tiwari

In recent years, “empathy” has become a widely used term in academic, technological, and cultural discussions. It is also being explored through AI tools and training systems designed to simulate or develop empathetic responses in users.

Empathy won’t save politics

A new faith in empathy is spreading through academia, technology and politics. The promise sounds humane, but the politics beneath it may be far less innocent than its advocates imagine.

The activist says India is playing a losing game against China in Myanmar.

India sees relations with Myanmar’s military as the most practical way to protect its interests: Maung Zarni

Amid Myanmar’s prolonged civil war, the scholar and activist argues that New Delhi’s strategic concerns over border security and connectivity have outweighed democratic considerations.

Iftikhar Gilani

Abu’l Hasan’s painting showing Emperor Jahangir embracing Shah Abbas.

A friendship to remember

How India betrayed its centuries-old camaraderie with Iran, inscribed in songs, paintings, and literature, when it tacitly sided with Israel in the ongoing West Asia conflict.

Shivendra Singh

A banquet hosted by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for Soviet leaders N.A. Bulganin and N.S. Khrushchev at Rashtrapati Bhavan in November 1955.

When diplomacy sits down to dinner

As Türkiye turns Gaziantep’s cuisine into a language of soft power, India seems increasingly shy of serving the world the food that once made its hospitality legendary.

Iftikhar Gilani

Maharashtra reports sharp rise in diesel consumption across rural districts even as farmers in Marathwada, Vidarbha, and North Maharashtra report shortages ahead of the Kharif sowing season. (Image for representative purposes)

Diesel shortage hits Maharashtra’s Kharif season

As the US–Israel war on Iran tightens, global oil supply, rural Maharashtra queues for fuel ahead of its most critical farming window.

During the workers’ General Strike in the UK in 1926.

Low pay has a long political memory

The May 1926 General Strike in the UK and the May 1974 Railway strike in India both grew from low pay and harsh working conditions into wider working-class upheavals. India’s latest strikes may now foreshadow deeper economic and political unrest.

Pritam Singh,Bill MacKeith

Funeral of six-year-old Palestinian girl Mennatallah Abu Libda, who was killed in an Israeli strike on a tent encampment for displaced families in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on May 25, 2026.

Mothers of Gaza, mothers of Maryam & Son

Mirza Waheed’s novel turns the war on terror into an intimate story of waiting, shame, endless agony and loss. Its emotional force grows in a world where Eid arrives amid mass graves and missile strikes.

US President Donald Trump at the Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, on March 27, 2026.

Cuba and Trump’s dangerous quest for glory

The strategy is far more than a sanctions policy or Cold War nostalgia. It is an attempt to reshape US dominance in the Western Hemisphere through force, driven by Trump’s search for historical legacy and Marco Rubio’s ideological ambitions.

US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a visit to the Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing on May 15, 2026.

Xi, Trump and India’s narrowing strategic space

The Beijing summit showed that American primacy in shaping the terms of the US-China relationship is over. China’s growing strategic confidence also leaves it with less incentive to offer India concessions on unresolved issues.

Ashok K. Kantha

Veteran journalist Nayan Chanda

Trump is doing the final stage of dismantling the world order: Nayan Chanda

Veteran journalist analyses US-China rivalry, Ukraine, Iran, NATO, and weakening global institutions shaping a volatile world order.

Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Picture released on February 17, 2024.

The scourge of Zionist terror

The acts of terrorism foundational to the Zionist project, now institutionalised in the Mossad’s assassination of Israel’s “enemies”, have infected the highest levels of US and West European politics and are, ironically, making Israel’s cities look more and more like Gaza.

Pascal Alan Nazareth

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