West Asia’s deepening fault lines.

15-08-202524 STORIES

In this issue

Will Hindi unite the Thackerays?

Yes, if Fadnavis keeps giving them reasons to share a stage after 19 years to protect Marathi from BJP’s language experiments.

New books on the shelves

A novel that harks back to Kerala’s naxalite movement, a book on the invisible lives that enable our digital ease, and more.

Kaki

Translated from the Hindi by Nirya Misra.

Siyaram Sharan Gupta

Netanyahu’s military successes come at a dangerous cost

Israel’s unchecked aggression has deepened the region’s fault lines—and its own vulnerabilities.

Bashir Ali Abbas

Israel’s ‘total war’ has wrecked the Axis of Resistance but not its logic

Iran and allied groups will reconfigure around shared ideology and informal economies, and lasting peace demands a viable Palestinian state.

Israel’s 12-day war leaves Iran on a security-first path

The war deepened Iran’s isolation but revived its nationalist core, accelerating a shift from revolutionary idealism to strategic pragmatism.

Deepika Saraswat

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