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Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris achieves many firsts

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,...

National interests first

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...

Economy to decide ties

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...

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ISLAM & THE WEST

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...

An ‘NREGA’ for artists

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...

A demonstrator holds a poster picturing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a lighted candle during a gathering outside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 25, 2018. (File photo: AFP)

End impunity for crimes against scribes

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...

Back to religious wars

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...

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Letting go is so hard for parents

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...

Don’t forget the peasant

Dhurjati Mukherjee Agricultural reforms are imperative in our country as these have a high potential to look after a major segment of the population. There is need not just to increase productivity, but also to ensure that farmers get a better deal and are assured...

File Photo: US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in their first 2020 presidential campaign debate held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, US, September 29, 2020. (PC: amny.com)

The fall and fall of America

Jagdish Rattanani The world’s most-watched election is today, November 3, with Joe Biden in the lead but pollsters are still unsure if he will make it to the White House. The prospects of Donald Trump’s victory are bleak but not many are ruling out a...

 

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