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Trump and Erdogan: Bringers of Chaos

"Where America retreats, chaos follows," said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Cairo last week. It's not the sort of remark you'd expect from an American diplomat only three weeks after President Donald Trump declared that US troops were pulling out of Syria. Is it...

Breaking News Hangover..!

This may happen in the year 2020! "There's something wrong!" I shouted, "There's something wrong!" "What's wrong?" asked the wife, rushing to my side, then picking up the phone and dialing the hospital. "Doctor!" she shouted, "Send an ambulance!" I snatched the ph...

Brexit victory was never an option for Theresa May

It was about how badly she would lose
History shows Theresa May is not one to step aside. Opposition Leader Jeremey Corbyn's tabling of a no-confidence motion in the Government, which would spark a general election if passed, will fail at this stage when it is voted on in Parliament on Wednesday. The Democ...

Go Fly A Kite..!

It was a week after the funeral. She had buried her hard working accountant husband, who had painstakingly worked from morn till sundown, risen from clerk to bank manager, sent two children to college and jobs abroad with the income, and given her a comfortable life st...

Naseeruddin Shah ko Gussa Kyon Aata hai?

It is not the first time a Muslim actor has been treated so shabbily
It's true that there has not been any violence of the scale of post Godhra Gujarat or Kandhmal 2008 or Muzzafrnagar 2013. What has been happening is that chronic violence is becoming endemic and some ghastly individual incidents of horrific nature are coming to the for...

Pothole Reproach..!

“The Supreme Court is appalled by the number of people dying because of potholes!” I shouted. The road contractor got down from his fancy Mercedes and wiped a few tears rolling down his cheeks, “We pothole contractors are a misunderstood lot!” he whimpered as he stood...

The most remarkable thing about Trump's proposed national emergency

With his solution to the border-wall impasse, the president seems to be working within the boundaries of law-revealing the massive power of the American executive.
Leah Millis Typically, when a president wants to make policy, he has to negotiate a deal with Congress. Because that hasn't worked out for President Donald Trump in securing his border wall, he's tried to find another way to lock down the $5 billion he wants to build...

Crumbs under the table..!

Are you eating crumbs falling under the table? Right next to where I write this column everyday, I have a large window, and am visited most all the time by a host of different birds and many squirrels. They come and sit on my windowsill, some stare fearlessly as I wr...

Cross-LoC trade on its dying breaths

IT is accepted by all that Kashmiris feel a deep sense of alienation and oppression, which they resent intensely. But there is another aspect that is often overlooked: Kashmiris feel that they are literally imprisoned in a cage from which almost all exit routes are bar...

Trust and the Net...!

Every day on opening my email I find kindly souls from Russia, sometimes South America offering me vast sums of money if I hide the wealth some dictator has siphoned out of their country. I've learned from the Internet that I also have extremely wealthy acquaintances i...

Corporate media smears WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

"One would have no idea from the articles that their subject is one of the world's foremost political prisoners, whose claim for asylum has been upheld by the United Nations. Or that doctors have repeatedly warned that Assange's ongoing involuntary detention in the sma...

On Refugees….And Myanmar-

It's Not Just The Rohingya
… And my life's cold winter that knew no spring; Of my mind so weary and sick and wild, Of my heart too sad to sing. - Paul Laurence Dunbar The world now has more refugees than at any time since after WW2, more than the population of Britain. They are often the con...

Agrarian distress in India getting out of hand

On the eve of the 2019 elections, just four months away, a "Great Agrarian Distress" is staring head on in the face of both the ruling BJP government and the opposition Congress, even as the agricultural production of the country as a share of the GDP is fast dwindling...
 

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