The images from Gaza are unbearable. A good part of my life has been devoted to working for peace and justice, including with people from the Middle East, also in
Those who live with the memory of violence in their bones run the risk of letting that memory define everything. We see that danger reflected today in Israeli policy toward
Have the unbearable images of Gaza’s starved and shriveled children finally stirred the hearts of our world’s powerful people? Trump admits there is starvation in Gaza and Macron
The acquittal by the Bombay High Court of 12 men accused of being responsible for the 2006 serial bomb blasts on Mumbai’s suburban trains has triggered a much-needed
This time I write first about a House of Commons session that I hadn’t quite expected and then, in a round-up, touch briefly on three things: bids in
Imagine this, based on a true story. Two teenage boys are arrested for driving drunk. No one was hurt, thank goodness. They are asked to sit in a “restorative justice”
This week I begin with scenes from Washington, Beijing, and New Delhi, then look at the possibility, slight or not, of the world admitting the reality of Gaza, and finally
“I don’t remember on any past Fourth of July being so ashamed of an action my country had just taken,” says former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers about the “big,
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice," wrote Robert Frost in his famous poem Fire and Ice. In this compact meditation, fire stands
This tiny website dares to hope. It wishes to contribute a mite to the struggle to preserve democracy and goodwill in the world. Some of our world’s griefs, however,
Anniversaries are a ritual in India. This week, it has been interesting to watch how the 50th anniversary of the Emergency declared by Indira Gandhi at midnight on June 25,
This week’s column will journey westward from Tibet to Iran via India and Pakistan. I begin with the Dalai Lama, who will turn 90 on Sunday July 6. As
