Category: World Affairs

The life and times of Muhammad Ali depict a tranche of history made up of uplifting as well as sordid events. The battles fought have changed things for

Kenya Indian journalists founded newspapers and magazines to demand human rights and freedom under colonial rule in the first half of the last century; and during the latter

It is amazing how we human beings end up taking so many paradoxical stances.

The choice is between a democracy benchmarked on the highest standards prevailing or a banana republic. The onus is on all of us to ensure that the country

Is Tunisia opening a new era for the Arab world?

Given the headlines, you might have thought that during his recent visit to the UK President Obama was solely concerned with convincing British voters that their country would

In a comment he made after visiting refugee camps recently, in the company of a US senator, in Turkey and some other locations, singer Bono said that the

Letter from New Delhi

Letter from New Delhi

On 16 September 2002, a group of 19 people, who were born in the Chagos Archipelago, picked up their suitcases from the carousel at Gatwick Airport and, having

This is turning out to be probably the dirtiest political campaign that America has known until now, with two frontrunner Republican candidates, namely Donald Trump and Ted Cruz

In Jean-Paul Sartre’s magnum opus, ‘The Age of Reason’, the question is about freedom and freedom only. What does being free mean to a human being? And by

President Barrack Obama in Cuba

A few weeks ago, during the JNU anti-India street demonstrations, prominent BJP member Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of State for the Environment, Forests and Climate Change in the

One could say yes and no, as no system is perfect, and one has to make do with the limitations and constraints that seem to be inherent in