“Ganga To Mississippi – Walking With The Rainbow” is a memoir, a family history, part family novel, part self-examination, interspersed with generational trauma, and imbued with immigrant folklores, all in a package of realism and ‘counter archive.’ Written by an...
By Zakir Hussain While news outlets are increasingly publishing reports of Chechen rebels being roped in by Russia to join its aggression in Ukraine, several formidable media outlets, including formidable US magazine Foreign Policy, dub such reports a Moscow’s...
LONDON: The historical reason for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is his firm belief that the West, particularly the western military alliance North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the United States, violated the spirit of a 1990 treaty...
By Zakir Hussain A Gujarat court’s decision to award capital punishment to 38 Muslims have sent shockwaves in the community. Six of them are from Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh district. People like me believe that they were are common young men, struggling for their...
By Wafa Sultana IIn 2012, exactly ten years ago, members of Karnataka Komu Sauharda Vedike (Karnataka Communal Harmony Association) and I, stood in front of the taluk office in Udupi questioning unconstitutional objections by the Principal of a college in...
The political aim of Russia seems to be to target Ukraine’s leadership to give up demand of NATO membership Major General S.B. Asthana RUSSIA has declared war on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and is executing a plan meticulously prepared and war-games. NATO appears to...
Palestinians must also reflect on the unavoidable truth – that those who have normalised and profited from the Israeli occupation and apartheid cannot possibly be the ones who will bring freedom and justice to Palestine. RAMZY BAROUD WHEN Nelson Mandela...
James M Dorsey Ukraine is about much more than the security of one sovereign nation. The battle for Ukraine is a battle for the new world order. In that battle, Russian President Vladimir Putin is living up to the worst expectations of Western policymakers and...
By Haider Abbas There are two ‘first times ‘ in the history to have happened in the second half of February. The first has been the visit of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Army Chief Fahad Bin Abdullah to New Delhi to meet his Indian counterpart MM Naravane on February 15....
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Humra Quraishi TWO pogroms in the recent history of the country – the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 and the North East Delhi pogrom of 2020 – took place around this time of the year, the supposed Spring time. Leaving back hundreds perished in every sense...