U.S. Policy in South Asia: Imperatives and Challenges
By Michael Kugelman | Summary Sustained bilateral and multilateral U.S. engagement in South Asia is of the essence. Three major factors amplify the importance of placing...
Tribute to my hero: Fidel Castro of Cuba
“I will be 90 years soon. Soon I will be like others. The time will come for all of us,” Fidel Castro, April 19,...
Found at an Islamic State training camp: bunk beds, weapons manuals, steroids
MOSUL, Iraq — The bunk beds that fill the rooms sleep more than 80 Islamic State recruits. On the walls, posters detail the components of...
Obama’s dirty secret: the fossil fuel projects the US littered around the world
Through the Export-Import Bank, the Obama administration has spent nearly $34bn on dirty energy plants in countries from India to Australia to South Africa. Seemingly...
Results of an innocent looking referendum in Italy may jolt the world from EU to Pakistan, Why?
Samina Tippu | Italian public would be voting, on Dec. 4, in a referendum to approve of a bill of political reforms presented by Italian...
The art of obfuscation Vs The perfect heist?
The art of obfuscation by Sky is Neela Having a voice, an audience, a platform is a privilege not afforded to many. Those who are afforded...
Trump may cause fresh spike in Pakistan-India tensions
With the election of a hawkish Donald Trump in the US, Mr Modi may even now be gambling that the year ahead will see...
A new idiom of Dalit assertion
VALERIAN RODRIGUES | Nov 20, 2016 There’s a new turn in Dalit politics that entails taking charge of affairs in their own hands, and a...
Why Pakistan must not be an interventionist state?
If I have to make readers understand that why Pakistan’s narrative is insecure and unhealthy. Only reason that is plausible in whole narrative of...
With the future of liberal democracy hanging in the balance, what next?
Robert Muggah | Open democracy Last week one quarter of American voters lit the world on fire. By voting in Donald Trump as their forty-fifth...
Elimination of India’s high currency notes curtails corruption
Lord Desai argues that the Modi has struck a master move through the move to demonetize high currency notes as cash hoards circulating sustain...
Freedom of expression or National interests ?
Ramachandra Guha speaks on one-day ban on NDTV India imposed by the government of India and Chhattisgarh police booking case against DU Professor Nandini Sundar as how it will dent...