The Hindu Profiles

Péter Magyar | The Orbán challenger

In Viktor Orbán’s land, dissent wears a new look. It has a winsome voice, a familiar face and a turb...

Lawrence Wong | Designated successor

It so happens that succession stories are often scripted like thrillers. When Singapore’s founding f...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | The third runner

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. authored ‘A Letter to Liberals’. He fear...

John Swinney | The gradualist

On May 8, 60-year-old John Ramsay Swinney, a veteran of the Scottish National Party (SNP), was sworn...

Rafah | Opening the gates of hell

The pre-war population of Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza strip sharing a border with Egypt...

Andrei Belousov | Putin’s war manager

Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as Russian President for a fifth time has spawned a slew of political ...

Chabahar | India’s gateway to Central Asia

Before Partition, the town of Chabahar (earlier known as Tiz) was right at India’s doorstep, situate...

Karim Khan | Man on a mission

When Karim A.A. Khan was sworn in as the chief public prosecutor of the International Criminal Court...

African National Congress | A party in decline

Even as elections in India are drawing to a close, the citizens of yet another BRICS country and eme...

John Lee Ka-chiu: The Beijing loyalist

Diplomacy for a semi-autonomous city is tricky business. Do you woo investors, dispel democratic anx...

Keir Starmer: Bringing the Left to the centre

“I changed Labour. I will fight for you and change Britain,” Keir Starmer, chief of the Labour party...

Rassemblement National: France’s rally towards the right

In the elections to the European Parliament conducted from June 6 to 9 across the EU, France’s far-r...

Björn Höcke | The rabble-rouser

While addressing a gathering late last year, far-right German politician Björn Höcke, then on trial ...

IMF | Overlords of the developing world

Kenya is roiled by protests against a new finance Bill introduced by the government of President Wil...

Masoud Pezeshkian | Keeper of Iran’s reform hopes 

For change in the minds of fanatics... For the longing for a normal life... For the girl who wished ...

New Popular Front | France’s ‘republican dam’

In a development that has stunned most political observers, the New Popular Front (Nouveau Front Pop...