Strategic Consequences Of Myanmar’s State Of Emergency: The Quad vs. China & Russia?
Myanmar entered into a year-long state of emergency after the Tatmadaw detained leaders of the formerly ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) following their refusal to...
Modi’s inability to critically think matters is satanic revenge from hell
There is no balance of wisdom in PM Narendra Modi. Either he is facilely imitating for the physical appearance of Swami Vivekanand to celebrate...
Op-ed: Are we citizens of this country or we remain merely subjects?
My late father Nazir Ahmed Malik was born a subject of the British Empire on July 15, 1920, in Ludhiana, East Punjab. To be...
Can Police reforms justify the Use of force by the police?
The tone of official/semi-official literature on police reforms in Pakistan shows that it caters to two types of reforms: ‘policy’ and ‘service delivery’. While...
Is there any glimmer of hope for the Dalit in India?
On India’s Republic Day, some farmers climbed up ramparts of the Red Fort and hoisted the Khalsa flag. Some BJP workers took the opportunity to label...
Op-ed: Gujarat and India under Modi missed critical thinking
Vibes are good and bad points that you sense around a person in a place. But critical thinking is not to blame where the...
Islamophobia: A fungible prop for Muslim religious soft power
Think the Muslim world is united in opposing Islamophobia? Think twice. Rising anti-Muslim sentiment in countries like China, Myanmar, and India as well as the...
How did the farmers’ protests turn into an oppressed peoples’ Movement in India
Police baton charge and water torrents on elderly farmers, besides inclement weather, sometimes become freezing. Farmers’ local and diaspora sympathizers flooded them with food,...
Farmers’ protest is defined not by waywardness of the few, but by spirit and resilience of the many
Delhi has never understood Punjab and does not do so even now. The Punjab I allude to is the territory that till 1966 extended...
Op-ed: Will a more informed citizenry nibble the bait of Hindu rashtra?
It is gratuitous to unveil the truth about terrorism; unnecessary and often harmful or upsetting to write the truth of fighting terrorism because neither...
How to materialize a US-China arms control treaty
The New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) which is the last treaty to address strategic arms control is set to expire in February this...
Turkish fatwa hangs Erdogan’s soft power drive in the balance
Turkey’s state-controlled top religious authority has conditionally endorsed usury in a ruling that is likely to fuel debate about concepts of Islamic finance and...