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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 18, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Open Magazine
Top 500K sites
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Jul 17, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · MJ Akbar

    Rise of the Pivotal Power (opens the original)

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    Two pictures and a phrase were the dictionary and thesaurus of the 18th BRICS summit of 11 member states on its 20th anniversary. When China’s inscrutable President Xi Jinping becomes scrutable, it is because serious thought has been put into the shift. His normal visage at the highest point of visual camaraderie is at best a manicured smile. On Saturday, September 12, his eyes lit up, his face beamed with genuine pleasure, and a wide smile broadened into a laugh as he joined the laughter of P

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · MJ Akbar

    An Islamic NATO: The Mecca Mirage (opens the original)

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    DESERT LANDS EVOKE TWO INSTANT IMAGES: an oasis, real but rare; and a mirage, the continual delusion on the road to nowhere. Is the Mecca pact an oasis or a mirage? A mirage offers hope of life to those gasping for water because it mirrors an oasis, but illusion inevitably fails the reality check. A military alliance is ephemeral without a clearly defined enemy. You might advertise it as a defence pact but that does not change the focal question: Who is the enemy? It is a military pact, not a tr

  3. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · MJ Akbar

    Crime and Nourishment: From Tihar’s thali to UK’s drone-fed jails, a tale of curious priorities (opens the original)

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    WITH NON-SPICY pasta at the top of contemporary concerns in Tihar jail, spare a thought for our once mighty English empirewallahs who nobly bore the white man’s burden from Calcutta, city of the dreadful night, declared Oxford Street to be a nonpareil exemplar for every town centre in the world, and delivered tough-scold lectures on law and order as the framework of modern civilisation. Boris Johnson, the third of Britain’s seven consecutive failed prime ministers (a world record in democrac

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