Modi Man of Destiny?

Shashi Tharoor is a third-term elected member of the parliament of India and Chairman of its Standing Committee on Information Technology. He is a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs as well as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. This extract from The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India by Shashi Tharoor is reproduced by permission of the author and Aleph Book Company, New Delhi. You may follow him on Twitter @ShashiTharoor.
Kashmir and India’s Climb Up the Ladder of Chaos

Anubhav Gupta is an associate director at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. The views expressed here are his own. You may follow him on Twitter @AndyGupta21.
Is Duterte a Populist? Rhetoric vs. Reality

Ronald U. Mendoza is Dean and Professor of Economics at the Ateneo School of Government and a former UN senior economist. You may follow him on Twitter @ProfRUM. Leonardo M. Jaminola III is a Research Assistant at the Ateneo Policy Center. You may follow him on Twitter @JamWithLeo.