On Easter Monday, the world lost a strong moral voice that transcended across religions and philosophies, and cultures. His Holiness Pope Francis was a personification of moral courage who did
Significant news this week from different parts of a world shaken by recent events includes the Liberal Party’s victory in Canada, which will be seen as an unanticipated consequence
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I imagine our dear Pope Francis’ last 24 hours, between his simple room at Casa Martha, his meeting with J. D. Vance, the Urbi et Orbi blessing, and
In December 1936, a boy born in Buenos Aires to migrants from Italy was named Jorge Mario Bergoglio. At the age of 22, after becoming a chemical technician and working
An enduring law of economics states that prices, whether of goods or stocks, are influenced as much by expectations as by current supply and demand. An unmissable reality of the
Between Aurangzeb and Kunal Kamra, we are now fully qualified to call ourselves “The Republic of Intolerance”.
The month of March in Maharashtra has seen agitations and riots around a
While Trump’s tariff bombshells preoccupied the world, New Delhi’s Hindu nationalist government was launching a fresh strike on India’s Muslim minority. Prime Minister Modi’s government enacted
Earthquakes typically don’t have a season, but right now many across the globe are being jolted day after day. While Myanmar (and places in neighboring Thailand) experienced high-order
Today’s troubled and perhaps fevered world can do with one bold nation that is not drawn to the road of “might is right,” one that searches instead for the
Are we moving, have we already moved, to a new world order where raw power brazenly trumps values? Thus far the world has extolled, at least on paper, or in
In a world that seems to be going mad, I keep coming back to these lines by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), translated by Stephen Mitchell:
“From the place
“You dance to my tune. I dictate, you obey. I raise a slogan, you repeat. As loudly as you can.” This is the drive to compel that we increasingly witness
