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...

Goswami leaks raise important questions about the “Indian version” of Pulwama attack

WhatsApp leaks concerning Arnab Goswami (Republic TV) have brought into the limelight some bitter truths. One bitter truth is that the general public is...

US-British policy of appeasing Mussolini’s rule

National debt in Benito Mussolini's Italy was growing year-on-year, while he placed the Italian economy increasingly on a war footing. "This military dilettante", as...

Op-ed: Middle East futures: Decade(s) of defiance and dissent

If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle...