Opinion

Tlaleng Mofokeng While the world has been fixated on the results of the presidential election in the United States, less attention has been paid to another outcome of last Tuesday’s vote: significant steps toward decriminalisation of drugs in several US states. One state – Oregon...

Dani Rodrik As Joe Biden eked out a victory in the US presidential election after a few suspenseful days, observers of American democracy were left scratching their heads. Buoyed by polls, many expected a landslide for the Democrats, with the party capturing not only the...

Melvin Durai At the turn of the century, if you had told a random group of Americans that over the next two decades, they would elect a president named Barack Hussein Obama, whose father was from Kenya, and a vice president named Kamala Devi Harris,...

Dr Anil K. Singh With 290 electoral votes in his favour, compared to 214 secured by incumbent President Donald Trump, decks have been cleared for Joe Bidden and he has been declared president-elect. He is set to be sworn in as the 46th President of...

Ajit Ranade Kamala Harris will become the first ever Vice President of America to have Indian ancestry. Senator Harris’ mother Shyamala Gopalan arrived in the United States at the age of 19 to do her PhD in nutrition and endocrinology at the University of California...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala The beheading of a school teacher in France has ignited Islamophobia across the world. That is, however, a one-sided view. There is need for reform of both Islam and Western materialist ideology. Both ideologies are fundamentally egalitarian. The sixth century Arab world was...

Frank F. Islam Covid-19 has disrupted human life across the planet like few other modern-era disasters. In India, where the virus ate into nearly a fourth of the country’s economy in the first quarter, artists and performers are among the groups and communities that have...

Christophe Deloire In many ways, there has never been a more dangerous time for journalists than the present. With simultaneous crises threatening media freedom and sustainability, this decade will be decisive for the future of a vocation that is crucial for societies’ well-being. What would...

Dr S. Saraswathi Satirical cartoons on Prophet Muhammad which were originally published in 2015 and now republished in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have become a strong provocation for a series of protests by Islamic groups across countries and continents. The original cartoons published in...

Melvin Durai My 18-year-old daughter, Lekha, a college student, recently got her driver’s license. She was happy when she passed the driving exam, undoubtedly relieved that she wouldn’t need to keep taking lessons with me. I had mixed emotions. I was happy and proud, but...