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,
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,
We’re often told that more useful than “good” answers are new questions. If, as most of humanity hope, the Iran-Israel ceasefire lasts for a decent while, some of
Every morning, as I get up and make my coffee, I wonder what might have happened the previous night in Ukraine, Gaza, Kashmir, Israel or Iran. I am shown bombs
In the 1990s, growing up in Paradip in India’s Odisha state, a town of salt winds and monsoon-soaked mornings, I lived in what the Greeks might have called
