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The killing of a man by an Israeli soldier in broad daylight in the occupied West Bank has once again brought back the spectre of violence and bloody confrontation between Israeli armed forces and Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power as Prime Minister with the...

If one cannot actually be a leader one can pretend one is a leader. It is like wearing combat fatigues and strutting about like a real warrior. This is especially useful when the audience doesn’t know one is pretending and media is in on the...

The ongoing power tussle between Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Governor Arif Mohammed Khan is inevitably affecting the babus. The Vijayan cabinet recently expressed displeasure at the manner in which a senior babu of the state pointed out certain flaws in the draft bill...

The massive public protests that have raged across Iran since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the morality police in September arrived at the World Cup. Ahead of its 6-2 loss to England last month, the Iranian team refused to sing the Islamic...

A seemingly off the cuff remark by Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri that the Iranian morality police was being “disbanded” is now being interpreted not as a sign of the regime succumbing to pressure exerted by protesters, but as kite flying. Protesters and international...

What was feared, when Elon Musk clinched his deal with Twitter and became its owner, is now getting confirmed. Statistics reveal some frightening truths. Before Musk’s takeover, hatred spewed against Black Americans on Twitter was, on an average, 1,282 times a day. After he became...

Strange things are happening in President Xi Jinping’s China. What is even more startling is the fact that the new developments are taking place only over a month after he was hailed and installed as the country’s head for a record third term, a distinction...

We are in the middle of yet another election cycle (do these things never end?) and the matter of Nehru versus Patel has returned. A few weeks ago, a speech by the Home Minister was published with the headline: ‘Had Sardar Patel been India’s 1st...

Since the start of his tenure as the Union Home Minister in 2019, Amit Shah has constantly sought to burnish his ‘tough guy’ image. He’s taken the Modi sarkar’s crackdown on wayward babus to a whole new level. Sources have informed DKB that 2021 was...

Why did Elon Musk purchase Twitter? His official answer – to defend free speech and democracy – is so unconvincing that the question won’t go away. Musk’s repeated appeals to these ideals to justify important decisions he has made since taking over are so confounding...