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Shakeb Ayaz

Civilizational Geopolitics: The Political Economy of Oil and Gas Wars in Solar Era

April 1, 2026, 3:11 PM IST

Oil and gas will continue to be dominant energy sources amid renewable surge in coming decades. So after securing Venezuela, Iran was next on US radar to hold over the oil-based order rooted in controlling…

April 1, 2026, 3:11 PM IST

View of the east , Economy, India, World , TOI
Shakeb Ayaz

In memory of John Keats: A winter’s snowy journey from Rome to Kashmir, with whispers at Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah

March 6, 2026, 2:32 PM IST

A fictional spiritual journey imagines snowy winter travelling across cultures and faiths The dreary-nighted winter month was restless as it arrived at the Cimitero Acattolico, the Roman cemetery, to meet John Keats, who had lain…

March 6, 2026, 2:32 PM IST

View of the east , Spirituality , TOI
Shakeb Ayaz

Red Sea crisis: Challenging Pax Americana by disrupting western energy supply chains

March 13, 2024, 11:22 AM IST

The United States is facing a unique challenge from Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. The preeminent maritime power is struggling to enforce its diktat in the critical energy supply route to Europe, which…

March 13, 2024, 11:22 AM IST

View of the east , World , TOI
Shakeb Ayaz

Is the US ‘Crusading’ in West Asia to fulfil religious prophesies?

December 21, 2023, 10:59 PM IST

Twenty thousand Palestinians, including more than half of them women and children, have been killed since October 7 by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip after a Hamas cross-border bloody raid killed 1,200 Jewish people….

December 21, 2023, 10:59 PM IST

View of the east , World , TOI
Shakeb Ayaz

A media study that casts our mind back to Edward R. Murrow’s 1958 ‘Wires and Lights in a Box’ speech

January 15, 2023, 9:53 AM IST

Private TV news consumers in India may be struggling to navigate through fatigue, communication explosion, and information overload! State-run Doordarshan, print media rated among the most trust worthy news sources The legendary American broadcaster Edward…

January 15, 2023, 9:53 AM IST

View of the east , India , TOI
Shakeb Ayaz

The SCO is emerging as the multipolar flagbearer, but the Pakistan-China nexus is a challenge

September 28, 2022, 4:48 PM IST

The late Yale University political scientist Nuno Monteiro elucidated in his 2011-12 seminal work, “Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful”, that in the very first two decades of the unipolar world, US forces were…

September 28, 2022, 4:48 PM IST

View of the east , India, World , TOI