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Daoud Kuttab Anyone interested in understanding the root of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict need only visit East Jerusalem. There you can see all the major flashpoints. After four years of meticulous, exhaustive study, Amnesty International recently published a report showing that in all areas under Israeli...

It is unfortunate that Prime Minister Narendra Modi equated the Samajwadi Party’s poll symbol – the bicycle – with those used to plant bombs by terrorists in Ahmedabad. The reference to Ahmedabad holds special significance at this moment because a trial Court has sentenced as...

Every year February 21, the world celebrates International Mother Language Day. The theme chosen for this year’s celebration is ‘Using technology for multilingual learning.’ This gives an opportunity to take stock of the experience of the past two years of the CoVID-19 pandemic and chalk...

The frantic appeal for immediate and concrete actions by Western countries made by a desperate Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy amidst continued shelling by pro-Russian separatists shows how perilously close Russia is to invading Ukraine. Zelenskyy was so desperate to save his country that he had...

The NDTV anchor Ravish Kumar rightly says that the Indian media does not focus on important things. For this reason, it is vital that we keep emphasising these things and that we write and read about them. In a few weeks, we will enter the...

The Budget is done and dusted, and the tough part starts now, which is implementing the proposals. One space where heavy lifting needs to be done is the disinvestment sector. The process needs to pick up pace, as Department of Investment and Public Asset Management...

Brahma Chellaney Much of the democratic world would like the United States to remain the preeminent global power. But with the US apparently committed to strategic overreach, that outcome risks becoming unlikely. The problem with America’s global leadership begins at home. Hyper-partisan politics and profound...

Tobias Bunde There was little cause for geopolitical optimism in 2021, and this grim trend has continued at the start of 2022. Almost every month over the last couple of years, a fresh emergency has dominated the news, contributing to a sense of a mounting...

It is Imran Khan, Pakistan’s iconic pace bowler, who made ‘reverse swing’ a special weapon in his armoury to fox batsmen and bowl the opposition out thereby winning matches. But, now as prime minister of his country he is facing a different kind of ‘reverse...

It is an irony that when Sri Lanka’s foreign minister GL Peiris spoke highly of improved Sri Lanka-India relations, Sri Lankan Tamil MP CV Wigneswaran asked India, hours before Peiris’ arrival in Delhi last week, to be wary of the understanding between Sri Lanka and...