Opinion

Djoomart Otorbaev Much of Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, from where I write this, has been unnaturally calm for several days now. Municipal workers clean and wash the streets, but there are few passersby. There are also few signs of the recent clashes in which police used...

Melvin Durai Rejection is part of life. I’ve been rejected so many times, I should be in the Guinness World Records. But Guinness would probably reject me and I’d have to settle for Limca. I don’t keep a list of my rejections, but each one...

Klaus Schwab No event since World War II’s end has had as profound a global impact as Covid-19. The pandemic has triggered a public health and economic crisis on a scale unseen in generations and has exacerbated systemic problems such as inequality and great-power posturing....

Ajit Ranade Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they break the contract, there could be a remedy in the form of a punishment or penalty. Secondly, if the loan is against a pledged...

Saeed Naqvi “London se Dilli aaye hain do yaum ke liye Yeh zehmatein uthaeen faqat qaum ke liye” (He has travelled all the way from London to Delhi for two days. These inconveniences he bears only for his beloved people.) This was the great satirist...

Sudha Devi Nayak Orwell’s ‘1984’ published in 1949 is a novel about dystopian times, his vision of a frightening future where humans are no longer human, being above or below the pale of humanity and defying what constitutes as ‘humanity’. A book that has graced...

Alex Hinton Strange as it is to say, but it is no longer uncommon to hear talk of insurrection, martial law, and civil war in the United States. The arrest of militia leaders in Michigan on charges of planning to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer and...

Dr D.K. Giri Foreign Ministers from four Quad countries met in Tokyo last Tuesday to discuss pandemic-related issues. At the behest of Japan, a Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) in order to reduce dependence on China was also discussed. The new supply chain would enhance...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Union Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, has expressed satisfaction that the number of mobile phone manufacturers in India has increased from two to 60 in the last five years. In parallel, Secretary Ajay Prakash Shawney has said that...

Martin Macwan Hathras is the first case in independent India where the State has deprived the parents of a sexual abuse victim the right to respectfully cremate their child by forcefully burning the body, knowing full well that it is destroying crucial evidence. The right...