Pakistan is crumbling, Is India Prepared?
Reports from Pakistan indicate that institutions of the state are heading for collapse. The Indian leadership represented by the inept troika of Sonia-Manmohan-Rahul seems indifferent, concerned about protecting More...
INDO-EUROPEANS 3: NOAH’S ANIMALS MARCH
Favorable climate and abundant water made India and Southeast Asia a hothouse for the domestication of plants and animals. The second wave of Indo-Europeans carried these into Eurasia and Europe. The controversy More...
Special Report: Stalking the Taliban in Afghan currency markets
Report by Matthew Green KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:04pm EST (Reuters) – Haji Khairullah Barakzai is the ultimate Afghan success story: illiterate village boy makes a fortune thanks to a lifetime More...
In Kerry, Obama picks foreign policy leader, loyal stalwart
Report by Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON | Sat Dec 22, 2012 3:24pm EST (Reuters) – John Kerry gave up his presidential dreams after a narrow loss to Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 U.S. election, but More...
Obama, Dobama, And the Price of Ignorance
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz India has hanged Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, for his involvement in the infamous terror assault on Mumbai in 2008. The Islamabad government, which subsidizes More...
Washington’s revenge
Column by M.J. Akbar When Abraham Lincoln was told at the height of the devastating civil war that his most successful general, Ulysses Grant, was drinking too much he wanted to know the brand of Grant’s favourite More...
Criminalizing The Defamation of Islam
Column by Amil Imani Nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their religion or their religious sanctity. More...
“Neo-Salafi” Fallacies And Muslim Reaction to Insults Against Muhammad
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz The majority of the world’s Muslims – especially spiritual Sufis, but also traditional, conservative, moderate, and conventional believers – object to naming as “Salafis” More...
Educated Professionals and Jihadism in South Asia
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - Tragically, India, proud of its long-lasting democratic institutions and its far-reaching efforts at integration and equality for a population of 1.2 billion, has again been More...
The remote has become a neighbour
Column by M.J. Akbar Technology has liberated prejudice and its consequence, rumour, from accountability. When the village was still a mere village, and had not gone global, prejudice had a face and a name. This More...
