This is the text of a talk delivered by Dilip Simeon on October 2, 2024, the 155th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas Gandhi, at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New
Before sharing my views, let me alert this new website’s visitors to the fresh and stimulating perspectives that can be found by clicking on the “Contributing Writers” button at
Maulana Altaf Husain Hali (1837-1914) is the most articulate and enlightened global voice on two subjects: Islam and Gender. It is tragic that the world no longer knows his
Recently I went to Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town to watch a T20 match between Titans and Western Cape Province. With only a handful of spectators, the usually reserved
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with 230 million of the continent’s 1.3 billion people and until recently the continent’s largest economy, is failing at a task
Book Review Essay
Books Cited
* Heather Cox Richardson, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Viking, 2023.
* James Davison Hunter, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America&
“We are one humanity!” This bold declaration begs for a thorough interrogation.
Are we born one in humanity or do we need to deliberately forge oneness in humanity? Can the
A great, and complicated, man died in August. For decades, Rabbi Michael Lerner was the leading Jewish American voice calling for Israel to understand what it had done to the
It is an old saying that you cannot go home again. The force of the saying is so evident today because not only do we get changed by going abroad,
Democracy as an organizing principle of government is conventionally associated with Athens in ancient Greece. Pericles’ speech famously adumbrated the virtues of democracy, emphasizing the freedom of Athenian citizens to
I am glad to be able to offer here a review of Peter Shambrook’s Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939, which was brought out in London last
