DESPERATE refugees crammed into cockle-shell boats landing on the shingle beaches of the south Kent coast are easily portrayed as invaders. Anti-immigrant demonstrators were exploiting such fears last weekend as
THE late RK Mishra, editor of Patriot, founder of Observer Research Foundation, used to tell a delicious story about Indira Gandhi whom he knew well. Once Dev Kant Barua, Congress
THE United States was experiencing a fall of COVID-19 in the middle of May. But then the cases started to rise and stay at a level almost close to the
People around the globe are slowly limping back to normal life. All of us are well aware that the way human beings suffered from the end of March 2020 till
by M Serajul Islam: YET another black life has been lost in the hands of white policemen, this time in Minneapolis. A video of the crime scene did not leave
AS THE epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic shifts from China to the developed world, rich countries are acting in an extreme nationalistic way not only by closing their borders, but
The March 7, 1971 speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman given to his freedom-seeking people at a critical juncture of this South Asian country’s political history
FEBRUARY 27, Woolwich Crown Court. The first round of extradition hearings regarding Julian Assange’s case concluded a day early, to recommence on May 18. It ended on an insensible note
IMMEDIATELY after his general election victory, BoJo jetted to the private Caribbean island of Mustique with his latest mistress. Sequestered in a rental villa that cost $26,000 a week for
ON JANUARY 17, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led the Friday prayers for the first time in eight years. He mocked the ‘American clowns’ who threatened Iran and said