When we read of the impunity, and sometimes the triumph, that bullies enjoy after intimidating the weak, we feel stabbed in the soul. Raised in the belief that democratic, people-
Spirits of threatened journalists rose across the world earlier this month when the Nobel Peace Prize was given to two courageous persons in their profession: Maria Ressa of the Philippines
Once more, horror and hope are at each other’s heels in India. Some minds seem convinced that only a great error in how our universe has been managed has
The recently concluded Dismantling Global Hindutva conference, organized virtually for three days by academics of Indian origin, may be seen as a significant event in the struggle to save democracy
Suspense, horror, sadness, relief, fear, and more. The world has responded with a sequence of emotions to Afghanistan’s scenes, and with a string of questions to which answers may
The first half of this piece is on the killing on July 16, on the Afghan side of the Pak-Afghan border, of Danish (= Daanish) Siddiqui, the New Delhi-born
Our world is shrinking in worrisome ways. Covid underscored our common humanity, and produced heroes everywhere, but didn’t bring the world together. Climate change invites universal concern but little
Wherever we live, all of us are witnesses as well as participants in the ongoing struggle between democracy and autocracy. If we do nothing, that too is a form of
The cool comfort with which Israel kills Palestinians in their own homes, children included, is matched by its ability to crumble Gaza’s tall buildings into dust in a matter
Urbana, Illinois. -- In a phone call from India, someone close to me voices a cruel truth: “Every day we learn of more people known to us dying of Covid.” A
After 35 or so miles, most trains going south from Delhi stop at a station called Palwal. Now part of the state of Haryana, Palwal belonged to undivided Punjab before
Myanmar’s sorrows have hit me hard. I’ve known many people from that once happy land. Tamil relatives of mine used to live there in the 1920s. Even earlier,
