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
The Preamble to the US Declaration of Independence starts, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident.’ It goes on to list the values which the Founding Fathers believed a
“Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization,
Migration is one of the most divisive topics in Europe today. The public debate often swings between fear and denial. But behind the noise lies a reality few politicians say
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
Donald Trump has major skills that are useful if you want to build a harsher world, in which the strongest exact more from the weakest. Many people who have been
In a world where power is increasingly determined by military strength, what sources of power are available to those working to strengthen human rights? One source is an awakened community
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
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
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
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,
