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Anita Pratap

Anita Pratap

Anita Pratap is an award-winning journalist, author and documentary film maker. She was the first journalist to interview LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran. She is a Contributing Editor of THE WEEK.

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Seeking middle ground in Middle East

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's decades-long, self-proclaimed ambition is redrawing the Middle East map

By Anita Pratap December 29, 2024

From Sunak to Badenoch

Badenoch's biggest challenge is to regain public trust after 14 years of Tory misrule

By Anita Pratap November 17, 2024

The US is today armed and polarised

Close or contested verdict can awaken crouching beasts

By Anita Pratap November 03, 2024

Leadership targeting and AI

Israel’s weakening of Hezbollah is ground-breaking

By Anita Pratap October 20, 2024

Chained to dollar chains

Dollar chains are real-time indicators of wellbeing of low-earners in the US

By Anita Pratap October 06, 2024

Shadow of Russia on Germany

East German results mirror the squeezing of mainstream European parties

By Anita Pratap September 22, 2024

Ukraine knows it will be pressured into a peace deal

The name “Kursk” pierces Russian history like a dagger

By Anita Pratap September 08, 2024

Joe Biden's debate debacle a morality tale

Con Man vs Old Man—is this the best we have?

By Anita Pratap July 14, 2024

The heat is on Elon Musk

Musk is volatile, unpredictable, even ungenerous

By Anita Pratap June 30, 2024

What if Donald Trump returns

Beware! A lawbreaker as USA's commander-in-chief?

By Anita Pratap June 16, 2024

In Britain, boring is good; and that could help Keir Starmer become next PM

Labour looks back in history to borrow some winning tactics

By Anita Pratap June 02, 2024

Western art pushes ahead with gritty current issues

'History repeats itself, elites wage war, masses suffer'

By Anita Pratap May 19, 2024

Has Rishi Sunak's lustre dimmed? Infighting may harm Tory prospects further

Opinion polls give the opposition Labour party a 20-point lead over the Tories

By Anita Pratap May 05, 2024

Addictive nature of social media a problem

Can we extract us from the jaws of internet platform monopolies?

By Anita Pratap April 21, 2024

Motives behind foreign phobia reflect multiple reasons

Protectionism and nationalism amid globalisation

By Anita Pratap April 07, 2024
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