It has been exactly a month since the October 29 arrest in Delhi of Faisal Khan, national convener of the Khudai Khidmatgars, an organisation he had revived 10 years ago.
Given America’s standing, Trump’s defeat is being appropriately seen as a global setback to ethnonationalism. Many have experienced a sense of relief.
Ethnonationalism says that a nation belongs
Below is a deeply troubling report published in The Telegraph of Kolkata of Oct 29. In a dispatch sent from Srinagar, correspondent Muzaffar Raina writes:
“The National Investigation Agency (NIA)
A US presidential election, let us tediously remember, is decided not by the country’s voters but by an “electoral college” to which each of the country’s fifty states
Tuesday November 3, which is when the U.S. will choose its next president, lies twenty-nine days into the future as I type these lines. Given (a) the time
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s election-eve death and Trump’s expected rush to fill the vacancy with a right-wing judge is a hot subject I intend to ignore
The massive China-India confrontation on frozen heights that will get colder and windier by the day confirms that ancient Asian cultures are as incompetent as Western counterparts in resolving
Mr. Prashant Bhushan’s evocation of Gandhi’s 1922 statement before Justice Broomfield was a reminder that the man marching staff in hand for India’s freedom was also, for
Ramachandra Guha for me is more than a gifted historian and commentator. He is a good friend. Which makes it even more important that I comment on the article at
Learning from Covid that life may be enjoyed a day at a time, I rejoice at recent news from three different parts of the world.
One, Israel’s “suspension” (as
Until recent years, it seemed that any clear edge that India possessed over China was in ideology. Economically, China was much stronger. Militarily, although India’s capabilities along the Himalayas
Covid 19, they say, has made the planet nicer for birds and fishes, cleaned our air and rivers, and, in India, pulled the Himalayas closer to watchers on the northern
