THE New Year celebrations this year were low key compared to the past. The loud sound of crackers and other fireworks that traditionally accompany the dawn of the New Year
AT THE behest of the United States government, the British government has detained WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his majesty’s Prison Belmarsh for five years. Assange is one of the
Slowly the US war on Yemen is turning into a quagmire for Pax Americana which can only respond in the language it knows best, brute force, writes Thomas C Mountain THE
THE testimonies emerging from Palestinians held captive by the Israeli military in Al-Shifa hospital, which was under persistent siege for 14 days, are harrowing: torture, starvation, executions, the mutilation and
TRACING history and going back to the colonial era, Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that despite the adverse impact of world wars and internal conflicts, the country has
THIS narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters on the eve of that epoch-making split. The middle of
The Berlin International Film Festival is no stranger to politics. The Middle East conflict was bound to cause debates and protests this year, writes Elizabeth Grenier THE Berlinale is renowned as
THE world is consumed, pained, and angered by Israel’s uninterrupted bombing and killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank with an open genocidal intent that has entered its
‘HONOURING our alliances does not mean facilitating mass killing,’ Representative Ocasio-Cortez said on the floor of the House of Representatives on March 22. ‘We cannot hide from our responsibility any
The voter turnout was far less than the declared figure as was perceived and was shown with reasons earlier. Naturally, the question arises of how the average of 41.8% voter