Parliament will not sit for long enough for the opposition to block No Deal. This is unprecedented and daring, but not unconstitutional. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s audacious gamble may yet yield the breakthrough that eluded his predecessor, at least from the British side. The European Union is much less likely to bend on the question of the Irish backstop, however much that is desired by ardent Eurosceptics. Nonetheless in a Brexit process that is complex and multi-staged

Irrespective of where you stand on the Kashmir issue, you can’t deny that Indian PM Narendra Modi has totally changed the rules of the game. He has, to use a popular British term, played a blinder. Article 370 and 35A, which conferred an autonomous status on Kashmir and banned outsiders from buying property in Kashmir respectively, has been daringly abrogated. The former state of Kashmir has been bifurcated – split in two territories (Jammu/Kashmir and Ladakh) for more effici