Category Opinion

Opinion: In her address to the Asia Summit in Wellington on October 15, Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor at The Hindu, observed that we are living in the “age of the alpha”. She was referring to the rise of authoritarian…

Imagine two diplomats in smoke-filled rooms in wartime London and Paris, poring over maps of the Ottoman Empire. Mark Sykes, representing Britain, and François Georges-Picot, were not renowned cartographers nor great experts on the Middle East. But the clandestine map…