RAJA MURTHY
The latest Indian Readership Survey (IRS 2017) has scribbled grim writing on the wall for newspapers: For the first time ever, no English-language daily featured among the country's top 10 most-read dailies. It shows an influential readership moving away from traditional news sources, and the dawn of a fascinating, complex, challenging new media order. The new IRS – considered the world’s largest readership survey – only increased the decibels of the death knells tolling for...
MANOJ JOSHI
China appears to be coming around to the view that India, despite having a much smaller economy and military, is emerging as a strategic competitor of sorts by aligning itself with Japan and the United States. Ironically, the US has come to the same conclusion about China. Its recent National Security Strategy noted that China and Russia challenge American power, influence and interests, and are attempting to erode American security and prosperity. In other words,...